Hi Emily, I highly recommend using Reciprocal Teaching, which is a model for teaching reading comprehension. It focuses mainly on 4 strategies: Predicting, Questioning, Clarifying and Summarizing. Kids use it in a small group situation, and listening to their oral language as they discuss their use of these strategies is quite enlightening. Really, it's very easy to implement. Although the model has been around for quite some time, there is a book that was published about 5 years ago called Reciprocal Teaching at Work by Lori Oczkus. Published by the Intl Reading Association. It's really great and very appropriate for grade 3! Good Luck! _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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