Reading is Thinking

Creating mental images in your head which reading (making a movie in your head)

• visualizing

• summarizing

• questioning

• infering

Using what you already know and the text to draw a conclusion

• visualizing

• making inferences (infer)

• questioning

• predicting

Retelling in your own words with the main idea and key details

• summarizing

• connecting

• questioning

• predicting

Using your own experiences to help you understand what you are reading

• visualizing

• questioning

• summarizing

• making connections

Stopping and asking yourself questions in order to check your understanding while reading

• visualizing

• summarizing

• questioning

• making inferences (infer)

Using clues to infer about what will happen next in the story

• predicting

• making inferences (infer)

• making connections

• questioning

Connecting the text to something that is about you/has happened to you

• text to self

• text to text

• text to world

Connecting the text to something else you have read before

• Text to self

• Text to text

• Text to world

Connecting the text to something that is happening in the world

• Text to self

• Text to text

• Text to World

Bonus #1: What type of marking can I place above the text if I think something is interesting?

• ?

• !

• ----->

• Underline it