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Reading strategies are what good

readers use naturally as they
read stories and texts.
There are six reading strategies:
Making Connections

Visualizing

When characters or events remind

you of things you've seen or
experienced in your life, you have a
better understanding of the story.
Readers make text-to-self
connections, text-to-text
connections, text-to-world
connections, and text-to-media
connections.

Visualizing is the movie you make in

your mind or the picture you see
when you read a story. Making
pictures in your mind of what the
author is writing about helps you
understand the story or the
information better.

Asking Questions

Predicting

When you ask questions while

reading, it helps you dig deeper into
the story. Some questions can be
answered in the text and are called
text-dependent questions. Other
questions make you think and
search, and you have to use your
own experiences to answer them.
You can't always answer these
questions directly from the text.

Making predictions helps you

understand the story because you
have to think ahead about what
might happen. When you make
predictions, it is important to read
on to see if your predictions are true
or not. This helps you become more
involved in the story.

Inferring

Synthesizing

Inferring is what you have to do

when the author doesn't come right
out and tell you something. You use
clues and details that the author
wrote and apply what you know
(your schema) to make a
conclusion. Inferring is also known as
reading between the lines.
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Synthesizing is when you create a

new understanding by applying
what you know (your schema) and
important details from the text.
Having a new idea or being
inspired to do something because
of a book is synthesizing. It's like
having an AHA! moment.

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Draw a part from the story that you made connections to.
Write a few sentences about the connections you made while reading.

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This reminded of: _______________________________________________

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because: _____________________________________________________

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Which type of connection did you make?

Circle one:

text-to-self

text-to-text
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text-to-world

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Draw a part from the story that you visualized.

Why did you pick that part of the story? _____________________________

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Describe some good word choices or sentences that the author used to help
you visualize that scene from the story.

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Draw a part from the story that made you think and wonder.

Write three questions that you had about this section or story for your group to
discuss. Try to write questions that make you think and wonder.
1.) _________________________________________________________________________
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I think the answer is: ________________________________________________________
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2.) _________________________________________________________________________
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I think the answer is: ________________________________________________________
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3.) _________________________________________________________________________
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I think the answer is: ________________________________________________________
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Draw a prediction you made based on a scene from the book.

Make two predictions about your reading below.

I predict: __________________________________________________________________
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I predict this because: ______________________________________________________
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I predict: __________________________________________________________________
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I predict this because: ______________________________________________________
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Find two places in the story where you inferred. Look for details the author wrote
(clues from the text) and add in your knowledge and experiences (schema) to infer.

Clues from the text:

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+
Information from your knowledge and experiences (schema):
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Inference: _________________________________________________________________
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Clues from the text:

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+
Information from your knowledge and experiences (schema):
___________________________________________________________________________
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Inference: _________________________________________________________________
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Choose three new or interesting words from your story. Use a dictionary and/or a
thesaurus to gain a better understanding of these words.
word: ___________________________
definition: ____________________________________________________________________
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synonym(s): __________________________________________________________________

word: ___________________________
definition: ____________________________________________________________________
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synonym(s) ___________________________________________________________________

word: ___________________________
definition: ____________________________________________________________________
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synonym(s): __________________________________________________________________
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Once you finish reading your book, your thoughts should grow or change.
Reflect on what you have read to synthesize.

Before I read the book my

thoughts were:

While I was reading the book

my thoughts were:

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After I finished the book my thoughts were:

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If you have any questions, please contact me at

nannini.kristine@yahoo.com

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