ABSTRACT
As a staff, the people have collected lessons, books, novel units, activities, websites, rubrics, and files of information on the different strategies good readers use. Readers actually move from reading each word and trying to make pictures, to the act of watching the book in their mind. It may be that the content or words are more difficult. Students don’t have to abandon the book, but they can acknowledge that they are moving to more challenging text and need to refocus their concentration rather than trying to zip through it. Picturing the story is something children learn from the very beginning as readers. Through wordless picture books to easy readers all the way to novels, picturing the story becomes a natural part of reading. The children highlight clues, words, or sentences that help them better understand the text as well as practice the notebook strategy the people are using in class.
