Today we're going to be talking about the categorize and classify reading strategies. You can follow along in the box as I go through the bulleted points. Information that has been classified together has been put into categories. You categorize when you put a name to the things you have classified as similar? Naming how objects or information has been classified helps to identify how the parts of the group are alike. Things might be categorized according to their physical structure, called their makeup or characteristics called features. Readers use categorization to name how items in text go together. Officers use the names of each chapter or section to categorize information. Let's take a look at what classified means. Again, you can follow along the bulleted points when items are grouped together based on details they have in common. It is called classifying. You can classify things based on similarities, how they are like or the same. Readers think about how new words and concepts connect together to build on what they already know and new information they are learning. Authors will sometimes classify parts of the text together in chapters or sections. Paragraphs are created to classify information to.