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Today, I substituted in an eighth grade English class and I LOVED IT!! 

The class is reading one of my favorite books, That Was Then, This is Now.  This book, as well as the others written by the same author, have been favorites of mine since I was in junior high school. 

Today, I got to use some of the strategies that we have talked about in the MAT program.  Included in these strategies was building on prior knowledge, predicting, and foreshadowing.  Not only did we use these strategies, but we also incorporated history that affected the time setting in the book! 

Today was a great experience. 

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