Directed Reading Street Instructional Practices And Approaches

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Reading Street instructional practices and approaches will include aspects of the directed reading approach (DRA) and directed reading thinking activity. Educators will activate prior knowledge, pre-assess, and use graphic organizers and activities to ensure students are actively engaged and learning. Benefits of using the DRTA approach:
• Encourages students to be active and thoughtful readers
• Activates prior knowledge
• Teaches students to monitor their understanding of the text as they are reading
• Strengthens reading and critical thinking skills Strategies of DRTA include:
• Reciprocal teaching
• Graphic organizers such as: story maps, story sequence, Venn diagrams, tree maps, bubble maps For diverse learning groups, including