This is the form we use to plan our strategy group instruction.

It's common for our students in a small group to be reading different books at varying levels. 

All three students read at a different level, are reading different books, and are working on the same strategy. Watch how it can be done.

Watch Hollie as she teaches an effective small group strategy lesson in under six minutes. 

Small-group math lessons can be both brief and effective.

Listen in as Gail works with the small group of girls who want the teacher to do the work. 

Watch Hollie teach this six-minute strategy lesson as she also layers in the strategy of summarizing. 

Check out this book club in which students are reading self-selected books from the same series. 

We just love watching Beth work! If you watch this conference, you'll see why.

These sixth grade students are meeting in small groups to discuss behaviors and expectations for themselves and each other when working with math.

This video shows Christie teaching her small group of intermediate students to monitor for meaning as they read. 

In this video, Christie emphasizes the importance of adjusting reading rate to her fourth graders. She emphasizes the importance of the strategy in helping to boost comprehension as well as fluency.

Heather uses magazines with students to find and define titles and headers, captions and graphic representations. 

The vocabulary strategy of Tune In to interesting words is also a great strategy for Word Choice is writing  Listen in as Gail works on both of these strategies.

Gail is working with a small group of sixth graders to talk about true/false questions as they comprehend what they are reading.

This small group is working on a strategy specifically related to their needs while revisiting a whole-group teaching point.

Here are the materials we use most in our small-group work.

Moving to instruction that is centered on the diverse needs of the learners in the room is a change worth making.