While reading you should...

...try to understand what the author is trying to convey or speak about. This allows you to have a deeper understanding of what you are reading and allows you to...

- create your own questions about what you read

- think about the issues or problems that were presented in the text

- retell and summarize events or information in your own words

- make connections (to other books, your own life, and the world around you)

- make inferences or predictions

- determine an author’s purpose

- use context clues to define unknown words

- understand the language used throughout the text