Thinking Stems Bookmarks (English and Spanish)

These are bookmarks that show students strategies for thinking while reading text. This file include them in both ENGLISH and SPANISH.

Determining Importance
What matters most?
What’s important here…
What matters to me…
I want to remember…
It’s interesting that…
One thing that we should notice…

Inferring
Schema + Evidence =Inference
My guess is…
Maybe…
Perhaps…
I predict…
I infer…

Metacognition
Thinking about our thinking…
I’m thinking…
I’m noticing…
I’m wondering…
I’m seeing…
I’m feeling…

Questioning
Generate questions before, during, and after reading…
I wonder …
What if…
Why…
I don’t understand…
How could…
It confused me…

Schema
Making connections using prior knowledge…
That reminds me of…
I’m remembering…
I have a connection to…
I can relate to…
I have schema for…

Synthesizing
Changing your thinking along the way…
Now I understand why…
My new thinking is…
I’m changing my mind about…
I’m beginning to think…
I used to think _____ but now I think _____…

Visualizing
Create mental images…
Use your senses…
I’m picturing…
I can imagine…
I can feel, see, hear, smell, taste…
My mental images include…

Check out the poster that goes with these bookmarks!

Total Pages
4 pages

Subject
EFL - ESL - ELD, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grade Levels
Not Grade Specific

Resource Type
Handouts, Printables