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Engaging Students With Text: The 3-2-1 Strategy

Vicky Zygouris-Coe

Matthew B. Wiggins

Lourdes H. Smith

The 3-2-1 strategy helps engage students actively and meaningfully in their reading. First, students summarize important points from text. Second, students share insights about what aspects of passages are most interesting or intriguing to them. Finally, students are given opportunities to ask questions about what they have read.

Abstract from Zygouris-Coe, V., Wiggins, M.B., & Smith, L.H. (2004, December). Engaging Students With Text: The 3-2-1 Strategy. The Reading Teacher, 58(4), 381–384. doi: 10.1598/RT.58.4.8