In this case the teacher is guiding small discussion groups and students perform specific roles within their groups as they use key reading strategies to discuss the book they have read about Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.

This case shows a teacher managing small groups of students as they discuss different book club novels and students analyzing and interpreting characters' reactions to social issues and connecting the stories to their own lives.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a whole class discussion on the novel "The Hunger Games" and students analyzing the events in the novel and discussing similarities to real-world events.

In this case a teacher poses open-ended questions and students engage in whole and small group discussion in order to analyze literary techniques and themes evident in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

This case shows a teacher observing and monitoring the students in small group discussion and a students discussing their textual inferences from Dante's "Inferno" and its reflection of man's desire to search for answers to universal questions.

This case shows a teacher observing students in whole class discussion as students interpret the text from Othello based on their own understanding of the play.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a discussion on leadership based on the short story "The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas and students making connections, supporting their ideas, and building explanations and interpretations.

This case shows a teacher guiding students as they analyze and discuss selected quotes from "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a high-level Socratic discussion on Arundhati Roy's novel "The God of Small Things" and Deepa Mehta's film "Water" and students analyzing, contextualizing, synthesizing, and making connections between the characters, symbols, and storylines.

In this case a teacher facilitates a whole-group discussion in which students collaborate in order to evaluate the degree to which W.E.B. DuBois' critical race theory is applicable to poems by Phyllis Wheatley and Langston Hughes.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a mock trial debate about "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst and students arguing two sides of the issue and supporting their assertions with evidence from the text.

In this case the teacher is doing a guided reading lesson of the realistic fiction story "Making Friends in Mali" and the students use prior knowledge to help construct meaning and make predictions about the story.

In this case a teacher facilitates a whole-class discussion in which students challenge each other's thinking and synthesize sources in order to develop a well-supported argument regarding the extent to which the government should take a stance on the obesity epidemic.

This case shows a teacher using decoding strategies and students making predictions and using questions to contextualize a text.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a whole class discussion about "Death of a Moth" and "Death of the Moth" and students sharing their interpretations of the text in order to develop a richer understanding of the essays.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a discussion and students orally comparing historical and contemporary texts.

This case shows a teacher managing small groups of students discussing "A Worn Path" and "The Road Not Taken" and students comparing and contrasting both texts and making connections in order to illustrate the theme.

This case shows a teacher facilitating a whole class seminar discussion about "The Devil in the White City" and students supporting their opinions and value statements with evidence from the text to demonstrate their understanding of the text and its connection to the historical context.

In this case the teacher is facilitating discussions among students after they have explored Edvard Munch paintings and students share their comparisons between the art and the works of Franz Kafka with their own personal experiences to evaluate how art and literature capture the human condition.

This case shows a teacher managing small-group discussions about classical characters and students critically discussing the characters, their culture, and making connections to humanity today.