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=**Helping to Build Strong Reading Habits**= Quotes (and Notes) from //Mosaic of Thought// by Keene and Zimmerman

Teachers, please use this site to help your students become stronger readers in any content area. This site lists the ideas posed in Keene and Zimmerman's excellent book on reading instruction, //Mosaic of Thought//. While the book itself is the best resource this site may serve you well when you need a ready reference and don't have the book handy. Be aware that the ideas presented are simply my notes from the text: occasionally direct quotes, at other times my own ideas.

7 Things that Great Readers Do:
1. Think about things they already know while they read 2. Make decisions about what is most important in a text 3. Ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading 4. Create mental images while and after they read 5. Infer; they create a meaning not specifically stated in the text 6. Synthesize 7. Use fix-up strategies when they don’t understand something