Text-to-Self Connections

Important Ideas and Themes

Questioning: Ask Yourself and Others Questions About What You Are Reading

Author-Schema Connections

Identifying Important Information

Recognize Words, Understand Meaning

Text-to-World Connections

Sensory Images – Use All of Your Senses

Evaluate, Summarize, and Synthesize - Sum it up!

Dialogue – What Is the Character Thinking

Text-to-Text Connections

Analyze Structure – How Is the Text Organized

Predictions

Making Inferences About Characters

Drawing Inferences – Think Between the Lines

Write a story – Repeat Words for 1-2