Systems of Strategic Actions for K-8, PreK, and Spanish
These indispensable
instructional tools reveal the integrated and flexible systems of strategic
actions that take place in a reader’s head. These critical strategic
actions are divided into three categories. Thinking within the
text involves efficiently and
effectively understanding what’s on the page, the author’s literal
message. Thinking beyond the text requires making
inferences and putting text ideas together in different ways to construct the
text’s meaning. In thinking about the text, readers analyze
and critique the author’s craft. Reading is thinking and student’s talk and
writing about what they’ve read is evidence of that thinking – take a look.