Making Connections
Readers make connections to other texts, themselves and the world as they read.

• Does the text remind you of something else you have read?
• Has something like this ever happened to you?
• Is this text similar to something happening in the world?
• How did your connections help you understand the text?
• How are you the same or different to the characters in the book?
• How does this text relate to your life?
• Is this text, the same or different from the types of text you like to read?

Predicting
Readers use written and visual clues from the text as well as their own personal experiences to make predictions about what might happen before, during and after the reading.

• What clues can you get from the visuals and graphics in this text?
• What might happen next? What clues help you to make this prediction?
• Has your prediction been confirmed? Do you need to modify your prediction?
• What information from your own life helped you make this prediction?

Summarising
Readers identify the main idea of the text and retell them, in order, in their own words.

• Can you retell the text in your own words?
• What are the most important events or ideas in this text?
• What order did the events happen in?
• If you were to write a review of this text, what would you say?
• What is the main point of this text?
• What key words would you write down to help you summarize this text?

Questioning
Readers ask and answer questions to clarify meaning and ensure they understand what they have read. They ask questions, before, during and after reading.

• What was the author's intentions in writing this text?
• Can I relate to the character? How are they alike and different?
• Why did the author portray the character in that way?
• What questions did you have?
• What would you like to know more about?
• How did this text make you feel?

Monitoring
Readers stop to think when they have a range of strategies to regain understanding.

• What was the author's intentions in writing this text?
• Can I relate to the character? How are they alike and different?
• Why did the author portray the character in that way?
• What questions did you have?
• What would you like to know more about?
• How did this text make you feel?