I was a guest for a school system in New York and I was working with second graders as their teachers watched. In this video, I introduce students to the idea of previewing text and text features (table of contents, photo) . The texts are leveled at 16 and include fiction and informational texts. The idea of choice is important and I wanted to demonstrate that providing students with managed choice (teacher selects a range of texts and students preview texts and select one to read) enhances reading. This video was filmed in November. This is the students first encounter with informational text.
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