• Explain some benefits of an integrated curriculum and how to implement it.
• Discuss some features of whole language classrooms and strategies for cooperative learning.
• Identify various ways teachers might group students for reading-related purposes.
• Name some ways to create a supportive physical and social-emotional environment in the classroom.
• Explain how the teacher can function as facilitator and manager of instruction, decision maker, researcher, and learner.
• Describe some ways teachers can communicate with parents.
• Explain the roles paraprofessionals and tutors play within the reading program.