Unit 1

What is Courage?

Think Like a Reader

Read About Real-Life Events

Today’s lesson involves an important skill: how to be a good reader. People who think about what they are reading, understand the message more clearly.

Read the selection, Read About Real-Life Events on pages 8 and 9 of Literacy in Action 4A.

Information in Read About Real-Life Events advises you to do the following if you want to be a good reader:

think about what you are reading
ask yourself questions as you go along
make comments
make connections between events in the story
make inferences
make predictions about what might come next, and
interpret the pictures

This is what it means to think like a reader. A Reader doesn’t just say the words: a Reader involves him or herself in the story.

Boy Reading