30 Big-Idea Lessons for Small Groups

<p style=margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;><em>30 Big Idea Lessons for Small Groups</em> 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:</p><ol> <li style=margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;><strong>Engage: Before Reading Students</strong> use a tactile tool like a topic card or a pyramid</li> <li style=margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;><strong>Discuss: During Reading</strong> Students read and mark up a short text</li> <li style=margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;><strong>Deep-See Think: After Reading</strong> Students re-read and revise their interpretations together</li> <li style=margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;><strong>Connect: After Reading </strong>Students begin to transfer their understandings to other texts </li></ol>