1. Teachers will read text selections before the students in order to encourage them to find the explicit and implied meanings and author’s purpose, particularly of difficult texts.
2. Teachers will be purposeful in building background knowledge, so that the focus is on connecting students to the most important and relevant aspects of the text.
3. Teachers will not distract students during reading by focusing attention on obscure words or unimportant details but will keep a spotlight on the essential ideas in the text.
4. Teachers will make students do the work by not spoon feeding them what a text says, but making them find the meaning on their own through summarizing and paraphrasing in their own words and pushing them to think deeper about the meaning and structure of the text.
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