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5 Strategies for Reading

5 Strategies for Reading. Predict. What do you think will happen next? Take a guess and then keep reading to find out if you were right. Connect. How can you relate to the story? Find a way to make a personal connection to the plot, setting or characters. Apply the

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5 Strategies for Reading

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  1. 5 Strategies for Reading

  2. Predict What do you think will happen next? Take a guess and then keep reading to find out if you were right.

  3. Connect How can you relate to the story? Find a way to make a personal connection to the plot, setting or characters. Apply the story to your own life.

  4. Clarify Do you understand the story? Pause to review what you have read and to answer questions you had earlier.

  5. Question What is unclear? What do you want to know more about? What words are you unfamiliar with?

  6. Evaluate Do you agree or disagree with the events in the story? Form your own opinions about the story and characters.

  7. Good and Evil • Listen to a brief summary on the theme and the content of three short stories that have a theme of good and evil: • The Inheritor by Frank Roberts • The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson • The Portable Phonograph by Walter Van Tilburg Clark • Please complete one of the activities in the booklet as you read. Then choose to answer one of the questions from responding personally, critically, or creatively at the end of the story. • You may use your phone to look up unknown words.

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