JPS-01

=JPS 01= = = Good Readers... || "Active readers create visual images" || Readers need to be able to add their own personal connection or visualization to what they are reading. When I am reading, I go to my own little world where I have created a picture of the place, people and events I'm reading about. This puts things into an honest, realistic perspective for me. ||
 * **Connection Type** ||  **Phrase/Situation in Text** [[image:BlackLine-medium.png width="245" height="2"]] ||  **My Connection** [[image:BlackLine-medium.png width="245" height="2"]] ||

|| "Reviewing, sorting, and sifting important information can lead to new insights that change the way readers think." || By synthesizing the information being read with prior knowledge from other texts is a helpful tool when a reader is trying to comprehend what is being read. I often think of it as the "light bulb going off" in someone's head when they are able to connect something they're reading to a text that has already been read. Making those kinds of connections facilitates understanding. ||

|| "Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged." || When readers learn to question what they are reading, they learn to become insightful and look at all things in the world from a variety of perspectives. We live in a very diverse world and by learning to question other people's perspectives in a thoughtful and respectful way we can gain a deeper understanding of these perspectives. ||