Do frequent read-alouds and shared readings of a wide variety of literary and informational texts.

Model, teach, and have students practice strategies for understanding informational texts.

Model, teach, and have students practice strategies for understanding literary texts.

• Model, teach, and have students practice strategies for understanding literary texts

• model with children and teach various strategies for understanding literary texts (e.g., building and activating prior knowledge; hands-on activities prior to, during and/or after reading; using graphic cues; representing stories visually; making text to self, text to world, and text to text connections)

• teach literary elements (e.g., character, settings, plot, figurative language, flashback, dialog, etc.)

• engage children in representing what they are learning  (e.g., conversing, role-playing, using manipulatives, drawing, 'writing,' etc.)

• model with children various strategies for understanding literary texts (e.g., building and activating prior knowledge, representing stories graphically; making text to self, text to world, and text to text connections, making use of text structure knowledge)

• teach literary elements (e.g., character, settings, plot, figurative language, flashback, dialog, etc.)

• engage children in representing what they are learning  (e.g., conversing, role-playing, drawing, writing, reports, journals, note-taking, graphic organizers, etc.)