1. 5 Strategies for Reading

2. Predict
What do you think will happen next? Take a guess and then keep reading to find out if you were right.

3. make a personal connection
How can you relate to
the story? Find a way to
make a personal connection
to the plot, setting or
characters. Apply the
story to your own life.

4. Do you understand the story? Pause to review what you have read and
Clarify
Do you understand the
story? Pause to review
what you have read and
to answer questions
you had earlier.

5. What is unclear? What do you want to know more about? What
Question
What is unclear?
What do you want to
know more about? What
words are you
unfamiliar with?

6. disagree with the events
Evaluate
Do you agree or
disagree with the events
in the story? Form your
own opinions about the
story and characters.

7. Good and Evil
Listen to a brief summary on the theme and the content of three short stories that have a theme of good and evil:
The Inheritor by Frank Roberts
The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
The Portable Phonograph by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Please complete one of the activities in the booklet as you read. Then choose to answer one of the questions from responding personally, critically, or creatively at the end of the story.
You may use your phone to look up unknown words.