Once students can decode words, the next big leap is making meaning from them. And that’s where strategies like unpacking a sentence become essential. In this lesson, reading specialist Ashlea Edwards teaches third graders at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, how to use questions — who or what, did what, when, where, why, and how — to become sentence detectives and find meaning. (From our sister site, Reading Universe(opens in a new window))
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