Sticky Notes Strategy for Reading Comprehension

Put sticky notes on the text as you are reading.

Use them for:

Sum-ups – Write down what just happened. For example, “George just stole cookies from the cookie jar.”

Predictions – Guess what will happen next in the story. For example, “George may get grounded if his parents find out.”

Questions – Write down what you are wondering. For example, “What does ‘justice’ mean?” Or, “I don’t understand this part.”

Connections –

Text-to-self – Compare a character or an event to yourself. For example, “I stole a cookie once.”

Text-to-text – Compare a character or an event to another book. For example, “This reminds me of how Stanley got in trouble for stealing in Holes.”

Text-to-world – Compare a character or an event to what might be going on in the world. For example, “People steal other people’s things in the real world, too.”

Text-to-media – Compare a character or an event to movies, TV, computer games, video games etc. For example, George reminds me of the character from “Dennis the Menace.”