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124. Small Group Ideas for Kindergarten Reading Comprehension
Your students are finally decoding with confidence, so what’s next? In this episode, I share what comprehension-focused small groups can look like once your students are fluent readers. Spoiler: it’s about more than just “did they understand the story?”
In this episode I share:
Why decoding must come first before comprehension groups
How comprehension is built through modeling, discussion, and real conversations
A breakdown of skill-based small group topics like: Retelling, Character focus, Predicting, Making connections, Comparing/contrasting
Tips for keeping it simple with…
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