- What I Need to Know About the rBook
Pacing
There are 9 workshops in total, so the rBook will cover between 27 and 45 weeks of instructional time (9x3=27 weeks; 9x5=45 weeks).
- There are 36 weeks in a school year so you have more than enough materials to last the year.
- This includes: wait/think time, write/think first, sentence starters, teacher modeling and partner rehearsal.
- (Remember that research shows that the number one predictor of reading comprehension is vocabulary.)
Use question prompts during pre-reading (using Who, What, When, Why & How) and provide sentence starters as needed (i.e.
- provide students with limited English proficiency with a sentence starter that pro...