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Implementing our BALANCED LITERACY Program
WHOLE CLASS LITERACY INSTRUCTION:
- strategy introductions
- shared reading and writing
- read-alouds
- author studies
- visualization activities
- demonstration of word choice and writing traits
- content instruction
GUIDED READING INSTRUCTION: "BOOK CLUBS"
- small group/independent strategy practice within text
- meaningful book discussion
- vehicle for intensive instruction
- discussion of strategies
- assessing student progress and updating goals
- research gathering and reporting
- questioning techniques
- locating answers within a text
- vocabulary enrichment and text analysis
- literature responses
INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION: "READING CONFERENCES"
intensive one-on one instruction
personal skill/strategy work
assessments of Reading Indicators, Standards, fluency, decoding, comprehension, etc.
to guide future instruction and set reading goals
LITERACY CENTERS
- strategy practice and reinforcement
- opportunity to improve comprehension, fluency, and expression
- Word Play - manipulation of sounds, meanings, conventions,words, parts of speech
- Book Nook - whole text studies of format and authors, content activities and learning
- Poetry Place - studies of rhyme, rhythm, text analysis, imagery, poet, forms
INDEPENDENT READING
- "Drop Everything And Read" time (D.E.A.R), independently and with partners
- integration of content books from across the curriculum
- independent rehearsal of strategies
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