Scravid Reflection

     While reading the book Enders Shadow by Orson Scott Card, our Language Arts class had to take 2-3 notes per chapter of Enders Shadow. Each note would help you remember a certain part of the book that had a significant reading strategy. We would write down what strategy we had used for that section of the book and it would help us remember the book better after we had read it. The 7 strategies were called SCRAVID, each letter of scravid stands for a reading strategy, summarize, connect, re-read, ask questions, visualize, infer, and decide. I think that I will remember Enders Shadow very well because of using these strategies.
     The three top reading strategies that I used in the book were re-read, visualize, and connect. I used re-read in the beginning of the book when Sister Carlotta entered the story. I used this example because sometimes I would read things that I wouldn't understand the first time that I read them, but if I went back and read them again then they made perfect sense. When I used visualize, I used it because I could visualize a scene in the book to better understand it. I would read the details in the part of the book I wanted to visualize (like when I visualized the line before the soup kitchen in Enders Shadow.) Then I would visualize the scene, and it would bring the book to life a little more than it already was. The time that I used connect was where the city of Rotterdam was introduced. I connected that city to a city in a third world country, and it helped me to better visualize the city of Rotterdam. Those are my three favorite reading strategies, and I hope that they will continue to help me better remember and understand the book.
     In the future I hope that I will learn how to use a more vast amount of reading strategies so that I can understand the book or literary work I am reading better and through different perspectives. These reading strategies help you enjoy books better and I think that I will find myself reading more than I used to if I can remember scravid.