Strategies for Reading
1. Predict- what will happen next?
2. Visualize- picture the setting and characters
3. Connect- How can you relate personally?
4. Question- ask questions about the story
5. Clarify- stop, reread, summarize to absorb
6. Evaluate- form opinions about what you read

Cause and Effect
The events of a story are often related; cause and effect in a story's plot is when one event causes another event. Cause and effect relationships between events are signaled by words such as: since, because, thus, therefore, so and as a result. Cause and effect events help to move along a plot.