Making Connections: Make a connection. What helped you make the connection between your experiences and your book?
Predicting: State a prediction. What knowledge do you have that helped you make your prediction
Make an inference about a charcter. What clues from your reading helped you make this inference?
Questioning: Ask a "beyond there" question. What prompted the question and were you able to answer it with further reading?
Characterization: State who the protagonist of the story is. Describe what he/she/it may look like, act like, or sound like using the characterization provided by the author.
Inciting Incident: What started the problem in the story? How is it being solved?
Characters: Identify a character in the story that is not the protagonist and explain if they are a dynamic or static character.
Figurative Language. Find an example of figurative language in your reading. Explain what it means and how the author used it to help you understand the story better.
Setting: Where and When did the story take place? How does knowing this help you understand the story?
Conflict: Identify a type of conflict in the book. Explain why you think this conflict is occurring.