Is an instructional setting that enables you to work with a small group of students to help them learn effective strategies for processing text with understanding
What does it mean to "read" a text?
Identify and understand the important
information
Connect personally with such things as setting, characters, and plot
React to the text emotionally (humour, loneliness, hope, terror, grief)
Derive the author's precise meaning even when it is subtle or ironic
Reproduce the author's intended syntax and phrasing when read aloud
Integrate the meaning of the text into one's life
Make inferences beyond the test
Purpose - to meet the different instructional needs of all students and to enable them to expand their reading powers