Make Connections - Connections can be made to personal experiences or to things students have seen or read. , Visualization - To make mental images of what I am reading. I can look for vivid language, like concrete nouns, active verbs, adverbs and strong adjectives., Organization - I can find the organizational pattern of a text. I can tell what is the author's central message or important ideas by how the text is organized. , Asking Questions - I can ask questions before reading to set a purpose for reading, during reading or after the reading. , Monitor Comprehension - I can tell when I am losing focus or don't understand something. , Main Idea and Details - Identify what the passage is mostly about and find details that support the main idea., Sequence - Look for the order in which things happen or identify the steps in a process., Cause and Effect - Identify what happens (effect) and why it happens (cause). , Evaluate Evidence - Study an author's claims and the evidence that the author gives to support those claims. , Compare and Contrast - Note how two or more people or things are alike and different. , Make Inferences - Use background knowledge and clues from the text to infer information., Character and Setting - Identify who or what a story is about and where and when the story takes place. , Theme - Look for the moral or lesson in a fiction story or the author's view about the world in nonfiction., Author's Purpose - Determine why an author wrote a passage and whether the purpose is to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to teach. , Nonfiction Text Features - Focus on features that are not part of the main body of text, including subheadings, captions, entry words and titles. , Visual Information - Study pictures, charts, graphs and other forms of visual information. ,

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