 Today, I'm going to be teaching my students about a reading strategy called back up and reread. When I teach my students this strategy, I also use a hand gesture, back up and reread. They like to use hand gestures when they're learning new reading strategies. Today, I'm using the book Chrysanthemum. You can use any book that you have in your school library. And as I'm reading the book to the students, I stop at different places and I back up and reread. So for example, this is what I would do. On the first day, Chrysanthemum wore her sunniest dress and her brightest smile. She ran all the way. Hooray! said Chrysanthemum's school. Hmm, what was that paragraph about? I better back up and reread and I would go back and reread it. Back up and reread is a great reading strategy for all beginning readers to learn. Try it today.