Thinking WITHIN the Text
Thinking BEYOND the Text
Thinking ABOUT the text
Thinking WITHIN the Text
100

Remembering important information and carrying it forward.

What is "SUMMARIZING"?

100

Anticipating what may happen next.

What is "PREDICTING"?

100

Thinking critically about the text.

What is "CRITIQUING"?

100

Using a range of strategies to recognize and take apart words, and understand word meaning.

What is "SOLVING WORDS"?

200

The child stops reading, unable to proceed.

What is "MONITORING"?

200

Adjusting present understandings to accommodate new knowledge.

What is "SYNTHESIZING"?

200

Noticing aspects of the writer's craft including text structure.

What is "ANALYZING"?
200

Taking action in flexible ways to solve problems or fit purpose and genre.

What is "ADJUSTING"?

300

The word is "tomorrow. The child reads, "to--, tom--, tomow--"...

What is "SEARCHING"?

300

Thinking about what the writer means but has not stated.

What is "INFERRING"?

300

The child says, "I think this is realistic fiction because it could really happen, but it didn't happen to the writer."

What is "ANALYZING"?

300

Checking on accuracy and understanding as well as working to self-correct errors.

What is "MONITORING" and "SELF CORRECTING"?

400

A child changes pace or approach for different texts.

What is adjusting

400

Connecting the text to personal and world knowledge as well as to other texts.

What is "MAKING CONNECTIONS"?

400
A child evaluates a text based on personal, world, or text knowledge

What is critiquing

400

Reading at a good rate, integrating phrasing, pausing, intonation, and stress.

What is "MAINTAINING FLUENCY"?

500

The word is "today". The child reads, "Tommy.... oh, I mean 'today'".

What is "SELF-CORRECTING"?

500

The child says, "This is just like what happens in Peter Pan!"

What is "MAKING CONNECTIONS"?

500

You can think about how the author organized the information

What is analyzing

500

Noticing and using sources of information (meaning, language structure, phonological information, visual information).

What is "SEARCHING FOR & USING INFORMATION"?