Ask questions: 

 Good readers generate questions before, during and after reading to clarify meaning, make predictions and focus their attention on what's important.

Why, what, where, who and how?  Do you remember when your child was young and those were questions you heard all day?  Well, those same questions are important in understanding what is read and heard.  Questioning during reading will allow students to better understand the material.

• Your questions will help you to figure out what you want to learn from a text, discover what you care about when reading, and help you understand what the author is saying.  Questions can help you make sense of what you are reading.
• Questions will help you keep your mind alert as you read and enrich your reading experience by deepening your understanding. 
• Questions don't always have easy answers.  You may want to discuss your thoughts with another person or look to another source to find the answers.
• Questions keep you turning the pages of the book as you search for the answer(s) to your question(s).
• Questions lead you to new ideas, perspectives and other questions.