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What's great about that book is when you're reading fiction or non-fiction, the strategies
can help you read. For example, I really like to read the newspaper, and I was reading the
newspaper this morning, and I also read it at nights sometimes. I usually use fab four
when I read the newspaper. Tell your partner if you remember what the fab four strategies
are. Excellent! Turn around. Now in order to review the fab four, I brought a couple
tools with me we're going to use in our read aloud today. I have my wheel that I like to
use. I have these four strategies in a circle, because you're brain uses them in a circle.
It jumps around. So take your hand and go like this. What should I do before I start
reading, show me with your hands, the hand signal? I should predict, and so I'm going
to look at the pictures and the words. I'm going to look here. I can see that it says
that the songs inside of the whale, and I know that it's not a story about one. It's
actually a non-fiction book. So it's going to give me some facts. I see a map! I predict
I think I will learn. I think I'm going to learn where they live, and which oceans you
would find whales. And then there's an actual photograph of whales and a little caption
that says that the whale's song is eerie, beautiful, and haunting. And I think they're
going to tell us a little bit about why they sing. I wonder why they sing. What's something
you wonder about their song? I wonder why in the caption of the photograph of the whales
why it says that the song is beautiful, eerie, and haunting. But researchers believe that
it is either to attract a mate or warn off rivals. I don't know what the word "rival"
means here. Show me with your hands. I'd like you to show me the pause step. During the
rest of the read aloud I continue to model each of the reciprocal teaching strategies,
pausing often to encourage students to talk to partners or to demonstrate strategy use
with the gestures.