A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n
Child Opportunities and K-3
develop and enhance language and metacognitive skills
kindergarten instruction
- stimulate verbal interaction to instruct vocabulary and encourage talk about books
beginning in the early grades
- build linguistic and conceptual knowledge in a rich variety of domains
throughout the early grades
- explicit instruction on strategies such as summarizing the main idea, predicting events and outcomes of upcoming text, drawing inferences and monitoring for coherence and misunderstandings