The student found summarizing to be the most useful reading strategy discussed in class. They enjoyed taking notes to understand what was happening in novels and asking questions. Taking notes helped them comprehend stories and identify things they did not understand. They got better at summarizing over time and sharing interesting parts with the class.

1. Choose one of the reading skills and strategies discussed in class that you found most useful.

2. Summarizing:

3. The strategies that I choose was summarize .The thing that I liked most was that I liked to do the notes so then I understand something and ask questions on the notes. Sometimes when I don’t understand something I would write down what it was. It made me know what was happing in the novel using the notes it helped me a lot. In class we would draw how Set looks like and we did a drama play of the ceremony of the dead. When we did the drama it was fun and I understand what they were doing for the ceremony. Doing the summarizing notes I got good with it and whenever I saw something I didn’t understand or an amazing thing that I thought was really cool and share it with the class. I think that I used more notes in the beginning then in the end. Next time I should do more notes in the beginning and at the end. I want to do more predicting because I didn’t do that many predictions and I want to do more, it well maybe help me think of what would happen next, want to read more to see what happens.

4. Choose one main idea, or a character view point, or a theme, or the author’s purpose and trace its development throughout the novel.