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Student journals are a collection of students’ written and illustrated predictions, reactions, understandings and questions based on Perspectives central text read alouds.

A whole class discussion structured to facilitate rich dialogue, active listening and use of textual evidence.

A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.

Save the Last Word for Me is a comprehension strategy that builds speaking and listening skills by structuring a text-based discussion for students. Students highlight two to three of the most important sentences of the central text, then discuss their text-based responses in small groups.

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Student teams look for clues and respond to questions that help them identify details, organization, inferences and comparisons in the central text.

During Affirmation Interview, students practice verbal and non-verbal communication in the roles of “interviewer” and “interviewee.”

Artifact Add-on asks students to select and share real-life objects that illustrate concepts and ideas from the central text.

Students choose an important sentence or phrase from the central text and participate in a structured class discussion about the “lifted” text.

Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.