Reading Strategies: Lift a Line

Strategy:  Find a line from the text that you are reading with which you connect.  Quote the text and write your thoughts, comments, and reactions that spring to your mind as you re-read that line.  Write fast and filter-free!

Follow these steps:

• From your reading, what line stuck with you?
• Re-read that line slowly.
• Start writing your thoughts.
• Write Fast and Filter-free.
• Don't stop!  To extend your writing, use the following:  "In addition..." or "For example..." or This makes me think..."