Meaning Maker

The meaning-maker part of your mind  puts the words together into ideas.  Your mind needs to make meaning on three levels.  

1.  You get the information from the part of the book you are reading and make sense out of it.  You may understand it better if you put it in your own words, in pictures or act it out.

2.  You put the information in various parts of the book together.  

3.  You connect the information in the book to your memory.  If the information in the book doesn't match the information already in your memory, you need to think about the conflict.  Is the book wrong?  Did you learn wrong information somewhere else?  Or is the situation more complex than you realized before?

The following are some activities that may help you understand the meaning of what you read better.