If you're not familiar with read in 4 voices, it's a strategy for breaking up text that comes out of EL (english learner) classrooms, but it can be useful for all learners. Each member of a 4 person group reads the parts corresponding to their kind of type (plain text, bold, italics, underlined).Oscar's Journal entry is about other kids in his class complaining about the use of letters in math class and why he values using variables. I use it with my 9th grade students as a refresher to discuss