Steps 4 and 5 I usually do together. Normally I try to set some kind of agenda over what topics we will go over that day. Sometimes it’s just “let’s do chapter 5″ and sometimes it’s more specific concepts. I write those down quickly so we don’t forget to go over any and at the end can look back and re-cap those topics. With biology concepts I usually try to start a conversation about the material that begins with “what can you tell me about (x) concept.” This way I can see whether or not they’ve looked at the material and have specific questions. Once we start talking about the material, and I always have the book out with diagrams and figures to look at, we can discuss it and make sure the specifics are down and also tie it in to the more general, broad concepts. Most of the time I try help the student connect the new material to relevant material from way before to tie some things together. Step 6 – address the task goes along with all of this. With the book open to figures and diagrams we can go through them and discuss out loud what we know about the topic instead of reading it right out of the book (hopefully they’ve already done that). I try to model how to effectively use the textbook by going to the index to look up stuff we don’t know or can’t remember. Steps 7 and 8 – summarizing – i work on right after we go over a concept and also at the end of session. Looking at the agenda we wrote down at the beginning we can make sure we covered it all and had a chance to re-cap those topics.