As a reading teacher my primary focus in on facilitating a variety of strategies through which children can process and understand text.  I teach reading using the following 12 strategies:

• Finding Main Idea
• Recall Facts & Detail
• Understand Sequence
• Recognizing Cause & Effect
• Comparing & Contrasting
• Making Predictions & Connections
• Finding Word Meaning in Context
• Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences
• Distingusing Between Fact & Opinion
• Identifying Authors Purpose
• Inerpreting Figurative Language
• Summarizing

     By reading together with our children and discussing the books they read in meaningful ways, we can provide them with subtle guidance and an enjoyable reading experience while nurturing their growth as readers. The reading proces takes place as readers think Within, About and Beyond a text. My goal is to get Little Flower students to do just that!