Chapter+4++Week+3

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 * Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency**
 * Only one chapter this week! This chapter has some very important information for Title I teachers so I really wanted to spend some time on this chapter.**
 * Serravallo citing Pearson and Gallagher (1983), states that "guided practice provides an important way to gradually release responsibility and move readers to become independent." She looks at strategy lessons as times to practice the new or review strategies learned before. I found it interesting that she said we often rush through or skip guided practice. How can we prevent this?**
 * Questions for discussion this week:**
 * What is a strategy?**
 * What are the three keys to leading an effective small-group strategy lesson?**
 * What does the author mean by "underground" reading strategies?**
 * What are degrees of support? How do they differ?**
 * The predictable structure of a strategy lesson is:**
 * I love the author's charts on pages 101, 103, 106, 113, 118, and 121. They are easy to access without searching through the text for the information.**
 * Something that I also found relevant to me was the idea of not just telling the reader __what__ the strategy** is **but sharing __how__ the strategy can be used.**
 * Don't forget to go back to your posts and reread because someone may have asked a question or made a comment that you would like to elaborate on. You can click on history to go back to previous posts. Even though I would much rather meet with you in person, I am enjoying reading your posts and hope you are getting some information that will be helpful to you in your instruction!**
 * Sherry**