8th

Use Text Features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features)–Assessment

Assessing Each Strategy

English

This guide will help teachers to assess student learning for this strategy.

Read Text as the Author Would Say it, Conveying the Meaning or Feeling—Brief Focus Lesson

Brief Focus Lesson

English

This brief focus lesson uses Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone to teach the strategy Read the text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling.

Rehearse–Rewind–Reflect

Article

English

Discussing fluency and the importance of practice before speaking in front of an audience.

Voracious Reading to Improve Fluency—Brief Focus Lesson

Brief Focus Lesson

English

This brief focus lesson uses any short, teacher-selected text to teach the importance of voracious reading to aid in the goal of improving fluency.

Use Word Parts to Determine the Meaning of Words–Assessment

Assessing Each Strategy

English

This guide will help teachers assess student performance of the strategy.

Take Me to a Place

Article

English

Take me to a place sends the reader back into the text to find evidence to support his/her thinking.

Awesome Authors, Part 2 of 2

Link

Article

English

Here are more ways we can encourage students to use their reading, writing, speaking and listening abilities, research skills, and critical thinking to make author studies come alive.