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**Good readers use the following 7 Keys to unlock meaning:**

 1. __Create mental images__: Good readers create a wide range of visual, auditory, and other sensory images as they read, and they become emotionally involved with what they read. 2. __Use background knowledge__: Good readers use their relevant prior knowledge before, during, and after reading to enhance their understanding of what they’re reading. 3. __Ask questions__: Good readers generate questions before, during, and after reading to clarify meaning, make predictions, and focus their attention on what’s important. 4. __Make inferences__: good readers use their prior knowledge and information from what they read to make predictions, seek answers to questions, draw conclusions, and create interpretations that deepen their understanding of the text. 5. __Determine the most important ideas or themes__: Good readers identify key ideas or themes as they read, and they can distinguish between important and unimportant information. 6. __Synthesize information__: good track their thinking as it evolves during reading, to get the overall meaning. 7. __Use fix up strategies__: Good readers are aware of when they understand and when they don’t. If they have trouble understanding specific words, phrases, or longer passages, they use a wide range of problem-solving strategies including skipping ahead, rereading, asking questions, using a dictionary, and reading the passage aloud. //Excerpted from: 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get it!// //Authors: Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins.//

Authors sites:

[|Gail Gibbons]

[|Jan Brett]

[|Patricia Polacco]

[|Eric Carle] [|Robert Munsch]

[|Mary Pope Osborne]

[|Megan McDonald]

[|Kevin Henkes]

[|Magic Tree House] [|Lester Laminack]

[|Ron Roy]

[|Chris Van Allsburg]

READING: [|Character Scrapbook:][|Sight Word Fun!][|Into the Book][|Story Mapping][|Awesome Library][|Houghton Mifflin Reading][|Starfall][|Comprehension Practice][|Reading Between the Lions][|Animated Fairytales][|Animated Tall Tales][|Book Adventure][|BBC Reading Concepts][|Mrs. Lewis' Reading Street][|Amazing Adventure Stories][|Internet 4 Classoom][|Making Predictions][|I Can Read!][|Sequencing with Arthur][|Reading Response]



GRAMMAR: [|Learn English for Kids][|Proper Nouns][|BBC Spelling and Grammar][|Parts of Speech MadLibs][|Parts of Speech MadLibs 2][|Treasure Trove Contractions][|Grammar Gorilla][|Alien Word Mine][|Verb Tense Treasure Trove][|Naming and Telling the Parts of a Sentence]



Spelling: [|See-n-Spell][|Look, Cover, Write, Check][|Spell Check][|Hangaroo][|Gator's Smash 'Em][|Cliffhanger][|Word Family Sort Practice][|Spelling City]

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