Strategy: making a master plan, improving, and adapting. 

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Above: working with a group of struggling readers on a readers theater. The students became engage when acting out the parts. Choosing an interactive theater script to read helped the students with fluency, self-confidence, and interest in reading.

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Building background knowledge and linking the unknown with the familiar. Below: Who is the wolf in fact? Paw prints of a Labrador and link to a wolf. Students looked for similar traits found in each animal. 

1st Grade Inference Lesson: Fossil by Bill Thomson