Watch this video with your students and Hollie will be your teacher.

Use this brief lesson to teach a complex strategy.

Watch Gail teach students how to use IPICK to choose a good-fit book. 

If you want to give more students a chance to use their voices in the room, try this strategy, which enables everyone to be heard. 

Watch how we encourage students to use text evidence when making mental images.

Are you making time for the magic?

Readers must know and do these two things to use this strategy successfully.

Pam's sixth graders have regrouped to discuss the parameters they've set for math conversations within work time. Because of the guiding questions Pam posed, the students have come prepared to share how they will help each other without giving answers, what they will do and sound like when the work is hard (or easy), and what their conversations will sound like when they disagree with each other.

Here is another way to reinforce the importance of good-fit books with all ages. 

In this video Gail has  students participate in a Turn and Talk during a whole group strategy lesson is one way of engaging in the process of making sense from print.  

Let's step into Trish Prentice's room for a moment and eavesdrop as she introduces How Rocket Learned to Read to her kindergarten students.

Checking for understanding while reading is such a vital strategy it is typically the very first strategy we teach each year, regardless of the grade level. In this video, Janet models the strategy for a group of first graders.

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

Learn how to teach this strategy from Hollie, and have her teach your students.

We are never too young or too old to expand our vocabularies. This strategy works for everyone.