1. Rocco’s Keys to Reading Comprehension

2. Metacognition These are the strategies I use… This one is my favorite
Summarize
I talk out loud about the important points in each chapter--related to the problem

3. Strategy #2 Making Connections
You have to connect the dots from book one to the next books.
You can’t skim over each chapter—you have to read closely.
If you don’t, at the end, it won’t make sense because if you miss a key detail, you will have trouble in the coming chapters.

4. Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters
Back to book one
Nonmortals
and cannon balls
All refitted with
Celestial bronze
cannon balls
Thinking by Rocco B.
Dark
rooms
Dead
sailors
Ship
tour
Gunnery
deck
pilothouse
Clarisses’
favorite
cannons
Rifled
guns
Boilers,
engine
Coal
bunker
port
Brooke
Dahlgren
aft
starboard
fore
It might
explode

5. Strategy #3 Finding the Story Elements
This helps me figure out the most important parts of the story.
This helps me to understand the story better and to remember the key details.
I fill out an organizer in my head.

6. Rising Action

7. Strategy #4
Visualize
I make a picture of chapters and what’s happening—I make a movie.
Kampe

8. Strategy # 5 Not too often…
I ask myself a question when something doesn’t make sense. Then…
I read the part in the book again.
I look back.
I think about what happened previously in the chapters or in the other books.
(Monitoring comprehension; using fix-up strategies)

9. Percy Jackson and Rocco…
This is what this series has helped me with…
Becoming a better reader
Building my reading endurance
Decoding and fluency
Making inferences and understanding complex stories
Understanding Greek mythology

10. Finally…
I wrote about the theme of The Titan’s Curse
See my handout

11. “Reading Is Not Just Words On a Paper” Rocco B., 2015
I like that Percy is dyslexic.
I love that this book is interesting, and it intrigued me from the start.
I love to make connections from one book to another.
Rick Riordan doesn’t forget about the previous books. He always tries to connect details to the next book.

12. These books have made me a confident reader.