Active Reading Behaviors

creating mental pictures in your mind, helps you "see" the action and characters; helps readers monitor their own comprehension breakdowns;

Guessing what will happen based on clues in the text and prior knowledge; must be logical

Using the journalists questions while you read (Who, What, When, Where, How, Why) to question characters' motives, plot, vocab, etc; Types a

Answering questions; Defining words in context; Paraphrasing to understand

Drawing conclusions about characterization, author bias, and implied meaning based on clues in the text and background knowledge

using clues from the text(such as changes in the main character, what the conflicts are and how they are resolved, statements of theme, and

forming an opinion or judgement about a character, the plot, or the story itself, usually using some type of evaluation criteria

Condensing main ideas into shorter paragraphs, sentences, or phrases; putting them in logical order without an opinion

Making text to self, intra textual, inter textual, or text to world connections by thinking of what the text reminds you of and then analyzi

Understanding how the text is put together; exposition, rising action, climax, falling action/denouement, resolution; understanding how the

When ___, I thought about the big question of ___. The author implies that ___ through ___.

The author's use of the word/phrase ___ helps the reader understand ___ because the word/phrase means ___.

The author divided the text ___, which helps me understand ___. The parts of the text are related because ___. The author wrote the sentence

Because the text says ___, I think ___ will/might happen.