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Strategy focus on the lesson plans include:
 * **Asking Questions**:
 * 1) Helps students make sense of the text and their world
 * 2) When students ask questions, they are less likely to abandon text.
 * 3) Asking questions before, during and after the reading means the student is more involved in the text
 * 4) Helps students construct meaning, enhance understanding, find answer, solve, find specific information, discover new information, clarify confusion
 * **Making Connections**:
 * 1) Text to Self gets the student to connect with their background knowledge or past experiences
 * 2) Text to Text connect other written materials such as poems, songs, magazines or books.
 * 3) Text to World connect the student to a text and the bigger issuess in society and world
 * **Visualizing**:
 * 1) Allows the student to paint a picture in their mind
 * 2) Allows students to make the words on the page concrete
 * 3) Allows the student to become more engaged with the text
 * 4) Photographs, diagrams, charts, and maps help readers visualize when they are reading non - fiction.
 * **Drawing Inferences**
 * 1) Reading between the lines
 * 2) Text clues merging with the reader's prior knowledge and questions to point towards a conclusion
 * 3) Implied information fro the text to create meaning during and after reading.
 * 4) Making an educated guess about a theme in a text/Predictions.
 * **Determining Important Ideas**
 * 1) Historical Fiction, non fiction trade books, poetry, and editiorials are sometimes hard to find the main ideas
 * 2) Determining what is important, depends on your purpose for reading the text; Are you reading to : remember information, distinguish between important and interesting, find a theme, perspective, opinion, or determining author's purpose.
 * 3) Determining character traits, motive, actions, and problems help identify the main idea
 * **Synthesizing information**
 * 1) Putting parts of the text together to determine meaning
 * 2) Sorting information to get the meaning of the text.
 * 3) Students should stop and think about what they are reading and identify important points and summarize.
 * 4) Students make generalizations and judgements and combine main ideas.