These are some notes we took in class about what to do if you are stuck while reading a book. Hope it helps.
1. Listen to your inner voice. Your conversation voice talks back to the words on the page. Your reciting voice only says the words, and you become confused or board.
2. Turn on the camera in your head. Good readers have a playing in their head as they read.
3. Catch yourself if your mind begins to wonder. Thinking about something else is a signal to reconnect to the reading.
4. If you can’t remember what you’ve read, it is a signal to go back and repair meaning.
5. Ask questions to clarify meaning. If you can’t answer them, you need more background knowledge, or you need to focus on the text.
6. If you encounter a character, and have no recollection of who they are, it is a signal that you were not paying attention. You need to repair something that has caused meaning to break down.
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