U: Solving Words-I use a wide range of word-solving strategies.
U: Solving Words-I use prefixes and suffixes to help me figure out new and interesting words.
U: Solving Words-I notice how the writer using regional dialect and I can discuss how it adds to the authenticity of the text and the characters.
U: Predicting-I support my predictions with evidence from the text.
U: Predicting-I change my predictions as new information is gathered.
U: Predicting-I use the characteristics of the genre to make predictions about the text.
U: Monitoring and Correcting-I self correct when it doesn’t make sense or doesn’t sound right
U: Making Connections-
U: Making Connections-I think about my personal experiences to interpret what the characters do and say dealing with content related to preadolescents.
U: Searching for and Using Information-I can understand long sentences (twenty or more words) that include prepositional phrases, introductory clauses, series of nouns, verbs, or adverbs.
U: Searching for and Using Information-I can follow complex plots, including texts with literary devices (flashbacks).
U: Searching for and Using Information-I use other sources of information to help me understand what I am reading. (For example, I may use the computer to help me understand something that I read before I continue reading.)
U: Searching for and Using Information-I notice graphic organizers in books and get information from them. I can use the information while I continue to read.
U: Synthesizing-I think about the problems of preadolescents and develop new perspectives on my own thinking. (My way is not the only way.)
U: Summarizing-When summarizing, I am very selective as to include the most important information or ideas or facts.
U: Inferring-In texts with multiple complex characters, infer traits, motivations and changes through examining how the writer describes them, what they do, say, think and what other characters say about them.
U: Inferring-I can infer the meaning of certain symbols, events, characters that the writer is using to enhance the meaning. 
U: Maintaining Fluency- When I read silently, I read quickly and think about the meaning of the story.
U: Maintaining Fluency- I read with fluency, phrasing and expression and understand the meaning of the story.
U: Analyzing- I notice how an author uses words in a connotative way (imply something beyond the literal meaning.)
U: Analyzing-I notice and understand the meaning of symbolism when used by a writer to create texts where the writer is representing good and evil.
U: Analyzing-I examine character traits in a complex way, recognizing that they are multidimensional and change over time.
U: Adjusting-I change the style and pace of my reading to reflect the purpose.
U: Critiquing-I can talk about whether the social issues and different cultural groups are accurately represented in the text.