• Facilitate Accountable Talk around “Communication”.
• Use small groups to differentiate reading and writing instruction.
• Guide students to identify cause-effect relationships and create graphic organizers to represent them.
• Monitor student fluency.
• Read aloud to students daily, choosing from both narrative and expository texts.
• Guide students to identify main idea and supporting details and create graphic organizers to represent them.
• Provide multiple exposures to unfamiliar terms, including word walls, personal dictionaries, and authentic writing tasks.
• Facilitate students’ use of prewriting strategies to select a topic and organize ideas for a persuasive composition.
• Guide students to design criteria charts for a persuasive composition.
• Scaffold students as they compose a persuasive composition.
• Confer with students throughout the writing process.