State of New Jersey Department of Education

Reading First New Jersey - Professional Development
Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Fluency

Guidance - Story Introduction

Overview

In this segment of the video, the teacher has students preview the story by using an instructional strategy called the Picture Walk. The students look through the pictures in the story and make predictions as to what they think will happen in the story. Then they share their predictions.

Classroom Activity: Observations

The teacher asks the students to explain why they made certain predictions. This corresponds with Bloom's Taxonomy Level 6 - Evaluation, which includes justification of responses to questions.