8. Instruction

Beth Lawson leads her class to think about inferring, and then asks them to work together with a partner to put the definition in their own words.

We use this video in our CAFE workshops to demonstrate the fluency strategy of using punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody.

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.