Comprehension Strategies

We have practiced the following comprehension strategies in school:

• Making Predictions
• Making Connections
• Summarizing
• "Lifting A Line"
• Thinking "I Notice" and "I Wonder"
• "Leaning In"

Think about one of the strategies you have used this week while you were reading.

Your task:
Write down the title of the book you read.
Explain the strategy you used and how it helped you make meaning of the text.

Example:
Title: The Wednesday Wars
Strategy: Visualizing
I read a section of the text where the main character, Holling Hoodhood, was asked by his teacher to clean out the class pets' cage. The pets were rats. I could visualize the rats beady little eyes and large yellow teeth gnawing at the food Holling had for them. They looked almost evil. I could sense Holling not wanting to have to touch them or have them touch him. It was like a movie in my mind when Holling was trying to get the rats back into their regular cage from the smaller one he had while he cleaned. There was an opening between the cages and the rats escaped. I could hear them in the walls of the school and see he and the teacher jumping up onto the desks fearful of the rats.