Teach reading skills through direct instruction. For example, when introducing, predicting or summarizing, model the skill yourself while reading aloud the the class. Then pair students and have them read to each other and practice the skill. They can demonstrate mastery by making charts and poster...
During your small group instruction, you can choose to set up groups or centers for students to do their independent work. You can adapt the Daily 5 to work with this by modifying centers a bit. Choose the 4 activities that you want students to work on independently. Choose activities that...
This illusion also hinders the teacher, and makes it difficult for her to make a good prediction of each of her students’ long-term learning. There is empirical evidence that the effect on log-term learning of practice testing is higher than using the time for studying, summarizing or re...