Collaborative Strategic Reading Bundle | Implementation Guide and Template

How often, in the secondary ELA setting, has someone said you should pull a small group when your students are performing where you need them to be? And how often do they actually tell you what to do in that small group? After years of trying and failing, I finally found the small group instruction model that changed the game for my students: Collaborative Strategic Reading! If you are unfamiliar, you can read more here.

I adjusted this process a tad to include the use of Notice and Note Nonfiction Signposts. They really helped my middle school students identify what's important in a nonfiction text.

If you are looking for something quick (I run these in 25 minutes), impactful, and engaging, then this may be the structure you are looking for! It will help you students navigate nonfiction text, boost their oral fluency, and build schema for different topics.