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Begin your session by having a book talk with your “Book Club”

Begin your session by having a book talk with your “Book Club”. Be ready to report on your experience. Guiding Reading vs. Strategy Lessons. What’s the difference? How do you choose?. A Strategy Lesson is….

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Begin your session by having a book talk with your “Book Club”

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  1. Begin your session by having a book talk with your “Book Club” Be ready to report on your experience.

  2. Guiding Reading vs. Strategy Lessons What’s the difference? How do you choose?

  3. A Strategy Lesson is… • Similar to a mini lesson conducted with a guided reading group rather than with the whole class A Strategy Lesson is NOT… • A book introduction

  4. A Strategy Lesson focuses on a strategy to develop higher level comprehension • Making inferences about characters • Summarizing and accumulating “big ideas” to get the “big picture” • Understanding that what a character says may or may not be true • Learning about characters through their words and actions • Metacognitive strategies

  5. A strategy lesson is more appropriate for third grade students and above who no longer need a high level of support with word attack and other “tricky” book features

  6. Curricular Calendar For Units of Study in the Primary Classroom see: Growing Readers, by Kathy Collins (Stenhouse)

  7. Reflection Time • With the group at your table, discuss: • What is the most important thing you will take from this course? • How do you see your classroom practice changing next year as a result? • What is the greatest value of this approach? • What is the greatest challenge?

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