Make connections (within the text, to another text, from known information to new information, to your life, to the world).

Monitor your reading for meaning (apply strategies as necessary). 

Determine what’s most important (distinguish main ideas from details). 

Visualize (see story in your mind’s eye, create images for your little one).

Ask questions (of yourself, your child, of the author, of the text). 

Make inferences (predict, wonder, assess what’s going on).

Synthesize (Apply new knowledge to what is known and generate new ideas).