BIG TICKET ITEMS FOR LITERACY

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SESSION OVERVIEW

• What are the big ticket items in literacy instruction?• What student and teacher behaviors should I see?• How do I coach teachers around these behaviors?

“EFFECTIVE TEACHERS MATTER MUCH MORE THAN CURRICULUM MATERIALS, PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES OR PROVEN PROGRAMS” RICHARD ALLINGTON, 2001

Small Group Reading /Work

Stations

Shared Reading/ Independ

ent Reading

BALANCED LITERACYFRAMEWORK

EFFECTIVE ELEMENTARY LITERACY INSTRUCTION

TimeTexts

Teach

TasksTalkTests

Richard Allington, 2001

READING AND WRITING VS STUFF50/50 ratio

*WORKSHEETS*TEST PREP*COPYING DEFINITIONS

EXEMPLARY CLASSROOMS INCLUDE MORE…….

Guided Reading and Writing

Independent Reading and Writing

Content Reading and Writing

STUDENT BEHAVIORS

• Reading and researching to build background knowledge• Writing to learn and process information• Responding to more thinking prompts vs worksheet completion• Citing, using text to support thinking

How could you integrate more Reading and Writing?What are some activities you could replace?

VARIETY OF TEXTS

COMMON CORE…..PRACTICE WITH COMPLEX TEXT

Shared Reading

Read Alou

d

How do you select texts throughout your day?

How might you scaffold the reading experience?Is the text easy, instructional

or hard?

HOW TEACHERS TEACH

I do , we do, you do

WHAT TEACHERS TEACH

Vertical AlignmentScaffolded instruction

A FEW COACHING QUESTIONS….•What is the focus for today’s lesson? What standard are you working toward mastering?•How did the activities you use support your focus?•What is an example of ways you scaffolded or supported individual learners?

MORE CONVERSATIONAL TALKMore open than closed

questionsUse of Academic

Language

TASKSLonger assignments

LessMultiple short tasks

Student choice

A FEW COACHING QUESTIONS• In what ways are kids given choice and responsibility during the lesson? • How could you integrate more choice?• What structures and routines do you teach your students to facilitate

productive learning experiences?• What is the focus of the project, lesson exercise? What standards does it

cover?• How does this project, activity scaffold students towards mastery of

content?

TESTS……EVALUATE EFFORT AND IMPROVEMENT

RubricsStudent Responsibility

Very little test prep

Formative

A FEW COACHING QUESTIONS• What do you want students to do at the end of the learning cycle?• How are you assessing students?• How are you providing feedback? Responding to students?• What evidence do you have that students are/ are not using the skill or

strategy taught?• How might students take responsibility for their learning?• If you did this lesson again, how might you change it?

EFFECTIVE ELEMENTARY LITERACY INSTRUCTION

Time 50/50Texts accessible

Teach direct and explicit

Tasks choice

Talk ConversationalTests effort and improvement

Richard Allington, 2001

“EFFECTIVE TEACHERS MATTER MUCH MORE THAN CURRICULUM MATERIALS, PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES OR PROVEN PROGRAMS” RICHARD ALLINGTON, 2001

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