Reading Comprehension: Visualizing

Grade Level: 1
Length: 13:47

Comprehension happens inside our students’ heads, but we can make young students’ visualization more apparent through cooperative structures and opportunities to draw. Note how the teacher grounds her conferences with children in the text of the poems, helping them to unpack their thinking.

Core Principles: 

Teaching Practices,
SEL and Academics

Topics: 

Cooperative Structures,
Facilitation Techniques,
Read-aloud,
Student Voice

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