Story map after every read-aloud
Keep a big story map chart with boxes for characters, setting, beginning, middle and end. After a read-aloud, kids help fill it in with drawings and words. Doing it with every book builds the habit before they try it on their own.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
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