Participants learn how to set up, guide, monitor, and assess multiple, self-directed small groups so that students can collaboratively think through, problem solve, and discuss a high quality text and apply this structure across the curriculum.

• Previewing of Nonfiction Texts
• Learning to Ask Big Questions
• Setting Expectations for Small-Group Reading
• Celebration/Evaluation of Learning
• The Next Day

• A "Fish Bowl" Demonstration
• Debriefing the "Fish Bowl" Demonstration
• Sample Student-Directed Literature Conversations
• Celebration/Evaluation of Group Process

• Roles of Facilitator and Group Members: Shared Writing
• Previewing "I Can Do It" Texts
• Celebration / Evaluation of Group Process