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Realia are real-life objects that enable children to make connections to their own lives as they try to make sense of new concepts and ideas. This strategy brings the Perspectives central text to life for students by using everyday objects during the read aloud.

Student journals are a collection of students’ written and illustrated predictions, reactions, understandings and questions based on Perspectives central text read alouds.

A whole class discussion structured to facilitate rich dialogue, active listening and use of textual evidence.

A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.

Text Talk Time is a whole class discussion that facilitates rich dialogue, active listening and use of textual evidence.

During Brain Share, small groups of students rotate through stations, discussing and recording concepts from central texts. This strategy is a modified combination of gallery walks and jigsaw.

Save the Last Word for Me is a comprehension strategy that builds speaking and listening skills by structuring a text-based discussion for students. Students highlight two to three of the most important sentences of the central text, then discuss their text-based responses in small groups.

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Student teams look for clues and respond to questions that help them identify details, organization, inferences and comparisons in the central text.

During Affirmation Interview, students practice verbal and non-verbal communication in the roles of “interviewer” and “interviewee.”