In Part I of this article (Fall- Winter issue of Social Studies Review (Volume 48, No. 1 ), we described the importance of spending time with pre-activities to help students activate prior knowledge and to set the stage for new learning to occur. The focus in this article is to help students use their knowledge of text structure, organization, and purpose, to describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and perspectives of the text. Once we engage students in actual reading, we can help them process information by providing guides, organizers, and strategies to help them make sense of the text. Below are nine strategies to help students organize information for meaning as they …