Instructional Strategies

• At the beginning of each lesson, teacher explains to students they are learning to ask important questions that help them summarize, clarify, and make predictions.

• Teacher models how to lead a discussion about a paragraph in the text.

  • Students read one paragraph.

  • Teacher asks one student to answer an important question about the information in the paragraph.

  • Teacher summarizes the paragraph in one or two sentences.

  • Teacher clarifies any part of the paragraph that seems to be confusing to the students.

  • Teacher predicts what the next paragraph might be about.

• Teacher continues to model paragraphs until the students understand the process.

• Teacher names a student to become the "teacher."

• Teacher provides as much support and guidance as needed.

• Student "teacher" names the next "teacher" to lead discussion.

• Teacher provides support, praise and positive feedback.

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