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- Since many students struggled with the book, I thought I needed to step back and focus more on getting students to comprehend the story before writing a book review of it. - I took out the book review/paragraph writing and instead reread the second part of the book together. This time, I modeled reading with expression some more and specifically asked students to focus on reading with expression. Surprisingly, they all did wonderful! The readers read fluently and with a lot of expression, and it absorbed the listening students as well. Then we worked on the comprehension questions together and played a short game of "I spy" using the word hunt handout. - For their seatwork, I had them finish the word hunt handout and gave out a very easy handout for students to practice 'consonant blends.'