The teacher uses multiple strategies to get the students engaged. She asks a lot of questions pertaining to what they are doing at the time. She also allows them time to practice their work and engage with each other. She does a good job of keeping the lessons fun and different to keep the children from getting bored, and is always talking them through her thinking about what she's teaching them.
One example of this is, one morning she was going over writing skills. The letter for the day was g. Whenever Ms. Sutton wrote a lowercase g on the board she would tell the students not to forget the "Monkey Tail" referring to the tail of the g. The kids loved it and they quickly called out every time she needed one. This was a great tool she used, the monkey tail made the lesson more enjoyable for the kids, and they always remember that the lowercase g has a tail.
