S.C.R.A.V.I.D. POST

When reading Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott Card, my class was required to take notes on details that stood out to us in the book.  On those notes we put the page number, chapter, and reading strategy we used.  Between the seven reading strategies; Summarize, connect, reread, ask questions, visualize, infer, and decide on which details seemed important in the book, I used infer and decide to be most useful.  Instead of spelling all of these strategies out our class simply just calls them S.C.R.A.V.I.D.  

Between all the S.C.R.A.V.I.D reading strategies I found Inferring on the details,  deciding on the details, and visualizing seemed to be most important to me  in this particular book.  When I inferred on the details, I thought about all the things I had just read and made a connection with it from the beginning of the book, or even a few pages before. For example on page (51) I found that because of Ender’s brother being so mean to him he was exceptionally good at hiding his emotions. Then after this, I would make a decision between all that happened by thinking about all the question circulating in my mind.  On page (55) I made the decision that Graff truly did care about him.  Lastly when I visualized the details when Petra and Dink were watching Ender practice in the battle room (103)  I could clearly picture that scene in my mind from the given details.

These strategies, I think, will prove to be extremely useful in the future.  When reading a new book I will think back to S.C.R.A.V.I.D. I will think about re-reading when I don’t understand a page or chapter. This will increase my knowledge of reading by a longshot.  I’m glad I learned this and can’t wait to learn new strategies in the future.