Strategy: Anticipate Meaning and Prediction

Method: I-Search

An I-Search is a reading-research strategy that requires readers to create their own questions, identify sources for research, and formulate answers.

1. An I-Search chart can be created for either fiction or non-fiction. See example below.

2. Students create the guiding questions and sources before reading.

3. The questions are answered during or after reading.

4. Students then use the answers to their questions to write a summary of what they learned.

I-SEARCH

SOURCES	Why did Columbus sail?	What did he find?	What kind of things did he do when he got there?	How was Columbus regarded by others?	Other interesting facts.	New questions I have.
Trade books
Journals
Textbooks
Encyclopedia
Other
SUMMARY:

I-SEARCH Guiding Questions