Reading and Analyzing

Relating what you are reading to the world, yourself or other texts

• Making Predictions

• Making Connections

• Asking Questions

• Visualizing

When you use text evidence and your background knowledge to make a guess about what is happening and characters in the story. "Reading between the lines."

• Making Inferences

• Making Predictions

• Evaluating

• Making Connections

Making judgments and forming opinions about what you are reading.

• Making Inferences

• Determining What's Important

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Evaluating

A sentence starter for making inferences is

• I was confused by

• It seems

• I predict

• The text is mainly about

A sentence starter for summarizing is

• I wonder

• I predict

• The gist is

• I can picture

A sentence starter for determining what's important is

• This reminds me of

• My opinion about this is

• I predict

• The big idea is

Noting wonderings while reading.

• Analyzing Author's Craft

• Making Predictions

• Making Inferences

• Asking Questions

Making educated guesses about what will happen next in the text.

• Summarizing and Synthesizing

• Making Predictions

• Asking Questions

• Making Connections

Briefly explaining the beginning, middle and the end of text.

• Asking Questions

• Summaring and Synthesizing

• Making Connections

• Evaluating

A sentence starter for monitoring and clarifying is

• My opinion about this is

• I like how the author

• I need to reread the part where

• It seems