A new spin on who, what, why, when and where
Making predictions to help comprehension
Journal writing after reading
Make a connection to the world when reading a text independently
Quoting an important idea in a nonfiction text
Name character motives and actions
Name rising plot
Name plot resolution
Tell the text
Dig deeper into the text
Guided comprehension talks
Elaborate and clarify meaning
Setting routines for independent reading
Fixing up when attention wanders
Communicating your heads-up ball approach
Answering a text-dependent question
Tell why (you think, believe, remember, know) with why messages
Make a bold statement about a text
Extend thinking when discussing a text
One-liners for nonfiction texts
Crystal ball predictions
Yesterday's news
Annotate text
Sentence strip statements
Write questions about reading
Super cool three steps to describe an experience
Getting kids to write: wonderfully concentrating minds generating ideas
Sketch to write
Getting help from another writer: write dialogue in narratives and quotes in reports
Getting help from another writer: write a hook
The right amount of details, the right amount of clarity
Thinking small to write well
Writing a jot about what was read
Works too long, and never gets any writing done
Dialogue journals
Analyze a text for author's purpose with a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own
Create a structured outline of a text
Collecting research and organizing research notes for writing
Plot summary snapshots
Writing information in a new format
Stay on point in writing
Productive use of the author's chair
Write a short research report
Write an all about text
Your students have voice?writing an opinion text
Arguing the solution to a problematic situation
Writing the recipe for success: how-to texts
Writing explanations, be like an encyclopedia
Inquiry for smart minds
Responding to literature with some kick to it
Identify theme in a complex text
Posing questions for easier inquiry
Writing a fable or myth
Writing a fairy tale
Justifying an answer with a claim and evidence
Use known concepts to help others learn new information
Connect the dots, or ideas between texts
Identifying real facts from made-up facts?fallacious reasoning
Brainstorming multiple valid answers/responses
Concept mapping between big ideas
Make me ponder?questions that get the thinking juices flowing
Writing compare and contrast response to literature
Peer to peer analysis and response
Critique a complex or functional text
Visible and visual:
Use known concepts & vocabulary to understand a text
Summarize a text that is a little too hard for students to read on their own
Student think-alouds
Separate central ideas from big ideas
Writing in different genres or multimedia to engage and persuade
Creative debate
I am a reader
I am a writer
Look up
Good-bye, perfect teacher
Teacher and learner.