During Reading Activities

During reading, strategic readers create a dialogue with the author, striving to reformulate what the author is saying. They check their understanding of the text by paraphrasing the author's words and they monitor it by imagining, inferring, predicting, and confirming. They integrate their new understanding with existing knowledge. They are continually revising their purposes for reading as they read.

Book Punch's text-to-self writing topics, graphic organizers and offline writing prompts are useful during reading activities.

While students are reading the book, ask them if they understand what they are reading and whether it makes sense to them.

Help readers connect to the book and make sense of what they are reading by relating the story to their personal experience in the Book Punch text-to-self section.

Encourage readers to think about what will happen next in the story. Have them begin working on the Evidence & Inference section of Book Punch to pull out relevant details.

Excercise readers' imaginations by asking them to picture and even draw what they are reading.

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