Reading Literature

Thinking Within the Text o Solving Words (determine the meaning of unknown words); Monitor & Correcting

(ask and answer questions); Searching for and Using Information (details of the story); Retelling and Summarizing

Thinking Beyond the Text o Predicting; Making Connections; Synthesizing (gathering new ideas from the text);

Inferring (reading between the lines)

Thinking About the Text o Analyzing (understanding relationships in the text and answering questions about

the text); Critiquing (with prompting, express opinions about the quality of the text)