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Join literacy consultant Debra Crouch as she shares a big book with a San Diego Kindergarten class. This Shared Reading Kindergarten lesson introductory session...
In this shared reading for kindergarten follow-up lesson Debra again models her thinking and invites students to turn-and-talk several times during their second...
In this installment with Debra Crouch, she and her students revisit the text to focus on vocabulary in this shared reading for kindergartners lesson —specific...
Before the video begins, Debra had students draw and write a response to the book: write about a pet you think is best. After collecting the students’ writing...
This modeled writing kindergarten lesson gives children an opportunity to hear a writer decide what to write about, how to say the ideas to be written and to no...
Watch as Debra demonstrates a whole group instruction kindergarten class.
This lesson happened just before the first reading of Which Pet is Best? The book had ...
Watch as Debra leads a reading lesson with a small group of kindergarten children. She invites each child to look at the pictures in the book and asks them 'ope...
Join literacy consultant Debra Crouch in this whole group reading kindergarten lesson as she returns to the book for a sixth lesson (Part 1 of 2). Lift Off to L...
Join literacy consultant Debra Crouch with a group of first-graders as they return to the book shared earlier with the whole class in this small group reading i...
