30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups: The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader (Corwin Literacy)

30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups provides an amazing framework, with a bank of engagement tools, that gets students interacting with texts. Follow this unique 4-part process to develop students’ literal, inferential, evaluative, and analytical skills:

1. Engage: Before Reading Students use a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid
2. Discuss: During Reading Students read and mark up a short text
3. Deep-See Think: After Reading Students re-read and revise their interpretations together
4. Connect: After Reading Students begin to transfer their understandings to other texts