What Principals should see in the classroom:
- Independent student reading of many kinds of texts
- Conferring between teacher and student
- Reader's Notebook
- Use of Thinking Maps for comprehension
- Guided reading
- On level reading
- Reading tasks
- Discussions that lead to summary
- Anchor charts
- DOK - levels of questioning
- Discussion about authors' craft, perspective, and genre
- Jot logs
- Note taking
- Read alouds
- Guided Highlighting
- Close and Critical Reading