Engage children in books and other texts with multiple layers of meaning.

Model, teach, and have students practice strategies for understanding big ideas.

Have children synthesize big ideas from related fiction and nonfiction texts.

• Model, teach and have children practice strategies for discovering and understanding big ideas.

• model with the children the ways in which they can discover and understand big ideas in a specific text.

• model with the children the ways in which they can discover and understand big ideas in a specific text.