reading workshop series day 4
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READING WORKSHOP SERIES
DAY 4
Jennifer Evans
Assistant Director ELA
St. Clair County RESA
http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer
Agenda
Guided Reading Review
Reading Strategies
Lesson Plans Homework
Homework Discussion
Discussion of Homework: Article – Motivation to Read Profile
m.socrative.comJoin room 980994Type response to question:
What did you find was the most valuable piece of information for you in the chapter?
Lesson Plan Review
Share your lesson plan with your table group.
Discuss strengths. Did you teach it? If so, how did it go? If
not, what final adjustments will you make before teaching it?
Reading Strategies
For Words Read Aloud Think Aloud Comprehension
CaféMosaic of Thought
○ Nonfiction – Text Features○ QAR
Response
Strategies for Words
Strategies During Read Aloud
Think Aloud
ComprehensionWhat Works:
Ample Time for Reading
Provide time for sustained reading
(the “Zone”)
Allow Students choice in selecting
the reading material
Match students and text to ensure
success
Encourage multiple readings of text (with different
purposes)
Explicit Instruction
Teach strategies successful readers use to comprehend
Model and demonstrate strategy use
Provide time for guided practice
Use authentic text to practice strategies
Peer and Collaborative
Learning
Teach students to explain things to
each other
Establish goals for success
Teach students how to collaborate
Use peer teaching to reinforce instruction
Time to Talk About Reading
Encourage students to express their own thoughts
Use whole class, small group, and pair discussions
Embed strategy instruction in the
discussions
Ask literal, critical, and evaluative
questions
Comprehension
Common Core Table 2– see handout Mosaic of Thought
Metacognition
Talk Hook Important Ideas Need to Question Keep visioning Engage in inferencing Retelling Strategies for “fix-up”
Study the Strategies
Look through the packet of strategies from Mosaic of Thought
Highlight those you use and are comfortable with
Add these choices to your guided reading lesson plan
Go back and learn about those strategies that you do not use a lot or at all – this will be your goal to work on
Nonfiction - Text Structures
There are five text structures found in expository text.
Compare / Contrast
Problem / Solution
Descriptive
Sequence
Cause / Effect
These strategies need to be explicitly taught to students in order for them to learn the strategies needed to extract the
most important information from the text.
Student Handouts
Think-AloudComprehension strategy used
Fix-up strategies
T-chart
Question Tracker
Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers can be used as a pre or post teaching strategy. (activate prior knowledge, introduce vocabulary, or reinforce key concepts)
Organizers should be taught as a process for students to organize their own thinking – not always as a final product to be graded.
These are great tools for extracting information for pre-writing as well. (Constructed Response or Performance Task)
Read, Cover, Remember, and Retell
Read – only as much as your
hand can cover
Cover – the words with your
hand
Remember – what you have just read (it’s ok to take another
look)
Retell – what you just read inside your head to a partner
Reading Response
How do I know if a child Comprehends?
See figure 6.3
Book Lists to Practice Strategies
Books to use for stages of
development handout
Books for Practicing and
Modeling Comprehension
Strategies
videos
Search and watch guided reading videos using specific strategies:Teaching ChannelYou Tube (Teacher Tube)Reading Rockets -
http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/comprehension
Heinemann VideosMiBLSi site
Implementation Dip
Change is MESSY!
Fullan: “The more accustomed one becomes to dealing with the unknown, the more one understands that creative breakthroughs are always preceded by periods of cloudy thinking, confusion, exploration, trial and stress; followed by periods of excitement and growing confidence as one pursues purposeful change, or copes with unwanted change.
Fullan
Those individuals and organizations that are most effective do not experience fewer problems, less stressful situations, and greater fortune, they just deal with them differently.
Change is like a planned journey into uncharted waters on a leaky boat with a mutinous crew.
Michael Fullan
Practice:
At your tables, select a guided reading book.
Write a guided reading lesson.
Practice teaching your lesson to the group.
Fill out an exit ticket before you leave.
Exit Slips
Please fill out the exit Slip and turn in before you leave today.
Homework:
Read Research Base for Guided Reading as an Instructional Approach and be
prepared to discuss.
Next time you come bring a lesson plan for
a guided reading group
Questions?