Novel Bookmarks From Dolly Charpentier, a seventh and eighth grade L.D. teacher at Samoset Middle School in Leominster, Massachusetts: ìMy students have difficulty with comprehension and sequential events in novels. They use an index card marked with the chapter theyíre reading as their bookmark. On the card, they jot down one or two sentences about the chapter, any difficult words and the characters they met. This process only takes a few minutes because it is done when the chapter is fresh in their minds. We continue creating bookmarks throughout the book and keep them together with elastic. At the end of the book, we read the cards as a review. The cards are a great way to keep track of sequential happenings and can be used to write up a book summary. (I borrowed this idea from my daughter who thought of this when she was in the sixth grade.)î