Children read often and for extended periods of time. They read aloud, individually, in pairs, and in small response groups. Teachers talk to students as fellow readers. Teachers and students share and think aloud what they do in their reading and writing. Readers write in response to literature not by merely summarizing.
Students talk in response to literature in whole-class situations, pairs, and small groups.
Students ask questions and raise issues from their own reading instead of solely answering teacher-directed questions. This is a short lesson to move students into thinking about some aspect of reading before they go off to read individually. Selecting a new book. Conferring with the teacher. Responding in their marble notebooks to something they are reading.