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Speaking and listening opportunities that


• allow students to discuss topics formally and informally.


• encourage active listening in flexible student groups.


• prepare students for formal and informal oral presentations.


• rehearse routine discussion strategies that build knowledge.


Reinforcing reading instruction by


• allowing students to build their own literacy from sound-symbols to words to sentences to writing fluency.


• developing decoding, phonemic awareness, spelling, and fluency skills.


• integrating high-frequency words.


• allowing textual analysis in bite-size chunks.


• encouraging students to think deeper and more critically.


• providing comprehension support.


• featuring original pieces in various domains of literature, including narratives, informative pieces, opinion/argumentative writing, and other culturally-relevant text, which stimulate discussion and boost comprehension.


• drawing on literature models that enhance and inform their own writing.


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