They observe and talk about differences and similarities in objects, ideas, processes, and pieces of reading materials. They have the opportunity to group things, ideas, and experiences together by noting common characteristics and to label these categories. Students are helped to gather data and to arrange the information according to some reasonable pattern. Gives purpose to reading. Models variety of good questions.
Students thinks while reading.
Creates active learning rather than passive. Any reading material, any grade level, any content area. Guiding a student's reading through a series of sentences consists of giving the rules and of playing the game. We will each read silently. Then we will take turns asking questions about the passage and what it means.