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Reciprocal Teaching: Eddie Miranda Looks at New York
Third graders use the strategies in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They utilize these reading strategies when reading "Eddie Miranda Looks at New York."
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Reciprocal Teaching: The Migrants
Fourth graders use techniques involved in Reciprocal Teaching: predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and visualizing. They use these reading strategies while reading "The Migrants."
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Reciprocal Teaching: Aunty Misery
Fifth graders investigate the qualities of a good reader by participating in a role play with the provided scripts. They focus on the five main strategies of good readers -- predicting, clarifying, questioning, summarizing, and...
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The Conversation Box
Learners on the autism spectrum can have difficulty maintaining a two-way, reciprocal conversation. Support these students with the Conversation Box activity, in which they practice conversations with their peers using the prompts and...
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Model Lesson Plan
Students, five of the "best" readers in the class, get a script and read over their part of the instructional activity before they begin to "teach" the class.
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Tropical Herpefauna
Pupils explore tropical herpefauna. They discuss the story "Tropical Herpefauna...Tropical What?" by Lori Bruckeim. Students discuss any concepts of the essay that need clarification and they predict, visualize, question, and summarize.
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Homeless
Pupils explore homelessness through the reading of "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen. They discuss their thoughts about homelessness and how they feel about the problem. They complete a reader response sheet.