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- Students experience reading, writing and thinking for a real life purpose by corresponding with an intellectual mentor (e.g. and adult pen pal) who reads the same books that they do.
- In each curriculum unit, students select (in consultation with their teachers) diverse and thought provoking books of different genres.
- Teachers model cognitive strategies through various small group and large group activities in literacy and subject-matter instruction.
- Students learn both the subject area and literacy skills as they study a domain (e.g., social studies or science) or genre (e.g., biography, fiction and folktales).
- Students and their mentors write to each other about the important themes and life issues in the books, asking and answering thought-provoking questions.
- Students learn about and use as models:
- Adults who incorporate reading and writing in their everyday lives
- Adults’ feelings about family, work and the community.
- Adults’ thinking and writing in the pen pal letters.
- The experiences of characters in the In2Books books they read.
- Students experience membership in a virtual community of people of various ages who are interested in books and ideas.
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