Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers: Strategies to Promote Higher Literacy in Grades 2–8
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Strategy Instruction

Click through the lesson below to see a full tutorial on Avi's short story: "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?"

Cognitive Strategy Visuals

Adopting an Alignment
Analyzing Author's Craft
Ask Questions
Clarifying
Evaluating
Forming Interpretations
Making Connections
Making Predictions
Monitoring
Planning and Goal Setting
Reflecting ans Relating
Revising Meaning
Summarizing
Tapping Prior Knowledge
Visualizing

Big Al Tutorial

Below you will find resources for students for the Big Al lesson including response sheets for before, during, and after reading the text.
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  • Home
  • Cognitive Strategies
    • Mystery Trash
    • Cognitive Strategies
  • Best Practices
    • Building a Classroom Community
    • Strategy Instruction
    • Cognitive Strategy Bookmarks
    • Book Clubs
    • Modeling with Mentor Texts
    • Graphic Grammar
    • Writer's Notebook
    • Vocabulary
    • Formative Assessment
  • Narrative
    • Theme
    • On the Nose
    • Memory Snapshot
    • Saturation Research
  • Informative
    • Article of the Day
    • Text Structures
    • Initial Report
    • Wacky Weather Report
    • State Brochure
    • Endangered Species
  • Argumentative
    • OREO Argument
    • Amendment Commercial
    • Topic vs. Theme
    • Ribbons
    • Argument Essays
    • Argument PSAs
  • About Us