[header] How to teach reading comprehension [title] Show your students " text to self " (t-s) connections. [substeps] Demonstrate how you copy parts of a book you are reading. Write these down on overhead transparencies. 
Instruct your students to keep sticky notes close by so, when they make a mental connection in a story you are reading, they can write it down immediately. Teach your students how to code their notes as t-t, t-s or t-w (text to text, text to self and text to write).