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Burro’s Tortillas: Interactive Reading of a Story
In this video, the teacher conducts an interactive reading of the final pages of Burro’s Tortillas. Features include explicit attention on story beginning, middle, and end; review of story details such as character, plot, and dialogue; interactive dialogue; story theme/message; and use of prediction.
This video depicts good basic modeling of techniques described in the lesson. See also related ELL strategies and resources for more ideas. It requires a lot of processing to read through all the elements posted here.