Student texts can be used to guide student understanding of essential questions. They reads with, what text(s) a student reads, why she reads it, and what thinking for ask students to do with the text(s) can be differentiated according to the literacy needs of my students. Any of these tasks would engage students in thinking more about their understanding while also allowing students to vary the reading experience intentionally according to their needs. Depending on the text and purpose, my students need the teacher to model and offer several reading strategies that support the emphasis on specific reading skills.