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Reading teachers as diagnosticians

Linda Farrell explains how being a teacher of reading is similar to being a doctor.

Montrose School, K-6: Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child

Montrose School is a K-6 school with an enrollment of approximately 190 students, 70 having identified special learning needs.

Visualize It!: Improving Comprehension through Visualizing Comparisons (Virtual Tour)

As a comprehension strategy, visualizing helps students understand the true size of new objects by comparing them to familiar objects.

Kindergarten Writing Conference: Promote Self Expression with Writers' Workshop (Virtual Tour)

Students are encouraged to use a variety of resources and writing tools during Writers’ Workshop and writing conferences, including word spacers and the word wall.

Think Alouds: Modeling Ways to Think About Text (Virtual Tour)

A teacher think aloud is an effective technique to model how to use comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading.

Reading Lesson - Sequencing

This teacher presents an outline of a reading workshop lesson that teaches the strategy of sequencing for grades K-1.

Grade K 2: Summarization Strategies

Learn about K-2 summarization strategies including the Summary Glove, the Retelling Rope, and the Group Retelling Game.

Sequencing Lesson

A second grade class engages in a reading lesson about sequencing.

Starring Details: Helping Writers Revise by Adding Details

Discussing different strategies to revise written work and modeling how to add detail to the middle of a piece of writing helps students develop writing fluency to ease the process of composition.