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It focuses on putting newly learned skills and strategies to
use in real reading. If
students do not apply what they learned, the lesson is a failure. Learning
skills and strategies without having a use for them makes no sense.

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Is a process of helping students move from our modeling
of the thinking to them doing the skill or strategy independently. The goal is to move from teacher ownership to student ownership.

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The only way to model thinking is to talk about how to do it. That
is, we provide a verbal description of the thinking one does. When we model, we provide a verbal statement of how to do a skill
or strategy.

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Students learn better when they
know what they are supposed to accomplish. Getting students to
share their understandings about how to do reading tasks is an
important explanatory resource.

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when we give students a
“secret” to develop a skill or strategy, it will be an
example they can use to guide their efforts.

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As teachers we need to be clear about what we are
trying to accomplish. When students know what they are trying to learn, they are better
able to learn it. When objectives are stated we can evaluate
whether the objective was achieved.