Small Group Instruction focuses on the role, in the development of student readers, of teacher-facilitated, small-group activity during class independent reading time.
Mini-lessons explains how the featured teachers choose topics for the "time to teach " segment of their reading workshops and demonstrates their thoughtful deployment of the mini-lesson technique to focus and support students’ independent reading activity.
Read Aloud/ Think Aloud explores how classroom teachers who frequently read aloud to students and demonstrate reading strategies as they go, contribute to early literacy development.
Shared Reading demonstrates how expert teachers provide a scaffold for student learning by extending modelled reading to include increasing input and initiative from students.
