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Teaching Strategies for Using Summarizing for Comprehension : Reading Lessons

Summarizing is a student’s ability to be able to identify the main idea and supporting details with a particular work.

Why Do Writers Write?: Understanding the Purpose for Writing (Virtual Tour)

By discussing the different reasons for writing, students learn that writing is purposeful.

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.

Bubble Gum Letters: A Persuasive Writing Activity

Students brainstorm ideas and then write convincing letters to the principal to try to get permission for a “Bubble Gum” science project.

Powerful Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy to Build Knowledge and Support Comprehension

Students use a list of given words to make predictions about a book.

Semantic Gradients

Semantic gradients are a way to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of related words.

Magic Tree House: The Musical

From her little local theater to a national musical, Mary Pope Osborne’s love for theater has come full circle.

The Question that Makes Authors Cringe

Blume finds inspiration everywhere; she encourages young authors to keep working at finding their own voices.

The Revels

Cooper loves writing plays, lyrics, and program and record notes for the Revels, a community event that celebrates seasonal rituals through song and theater.