Reading Strategies

Reading is Thinking!

Close Reading - Digging Deeper in a Text

Good Readers STOP often to THINK and then NOTE their thinking! (Leaving Tracks or Annotations)

Appropriate Annotations IS:

-Questions

-Connections

-Inferences

-Summaries

-Words

IS NOT:

-Notes without Thoughts (Include the WHY!)

-Personal Reactions

-One Word Comments

-Too Much of Anything (Highlighting, Underlining, Paraphrasing)