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Peer reviewedWhitin, Phyllis – Reading Teacher, 2002
Describes the sketch-to-stretch strategy, in which students show what a story means to them by sketching lines, colors, shapes, symbols, or pictures. Suggests the strategy is effective in encouraging a diversity of perspectives about a story, and in using it, many potential at-risk readers as well as stronger students become valued literary…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Freehand Drawing
