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Text Matters A Vision for Thinking, Reading and Writing grades 3-8

Presenters Always Learning LL, Inc: JoEllen McCarthy, Ryan Alperti

Participants will investigate how we can push our students to think more deeply through conversations and interaction with text. Many of us may use mentor texts in our writing and give the students the vision to write from mentor authors. Therefore building on that powerful connection- vision-modeling- guided practice. We reflect on thought processes and make room for understanding.

A quote that they referred to that was interesting was " We can cover what we need to, through uncovering and discovering" They discussed this through connecting fiction and non fiction and reading non fiction articles that spark discussion and interest. This leads to research with non-fiction texts and multimedia resources.