> Building Community
> Entering Text
> Comprehending Text
> Creating Text
> Rehearsing/Revising Text
> Performing Text
> Reflection

> Index

General Principles of Comprehending Text Activities

All Star Game
Living Timeline
Museum of Texts
Sixty Second Interview
Small Group Structure
Story Line
What Do We Know?

Comprehension Strategies
Choosing Importance
Final Word
Focus Questions
Machine Reading
Reading Workshop
Telling Stories

Deeper Meaning
Character Writing
Community Painting
Events, Themes, and Connections
Living Essay
Mapping Connections
Multi-Sensory Comprehension
Puppetry: A Text to Self Comprehension Process
Silent Storytelling

Extensive Reading
Living Museum
Mapping Text

Reading Approaches
Alive Reading
Choral Reading
Jump-In Jigsaw
Jump-In Reading
Modeling Reading
Pair/Share
Pair Performances
Reader's Theater
Reading Concert

Vocabulary
Vocabulary Rounds
Vocabulary Sculptures