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Learn my two unique Learning to Read frameworks : 1) Reading Folders and Pattern Books for emergent readers, and 2) Leveled books in guided reading groups for early to beginning fluency readers.
Emergent reading groups utilize the Reading Folder and Pattern Books. The Reading Folder is a language experience, student-generated story that is controlled in vocabulary. Pattern Books are comprised of repetitive text and easily recognized patterns that help new readers notice the conventions of print and make meaning of the text.
Early to beginning fluency readers use leveled books in small-group reading lessons to learn how to decode unfamiliar text. These reading groups also focus on fluency and comprehension. There are four components in a reading lesson. The first component is a language book walk to preview the story, develop academic language, and also to introduce reading strategies. The second part of the lesson is the word work that focuses on decoding skills and increases sight word knowledge. After the word work is the most important part of the lesson, reading the book with fluency, expression, and meaning. The final component of the lesson is the read-write connection to guide children to write summaries or responses.
Reading Comprehension:
The reading comprehension portion of this seminar focuses on instructional strategies that guide students to comprehend narrative and expository text in social studies, sciences, and language arts. Learn to utilize my 5-7 day lesson plan to frontload vocabulary and text structure, fluency and comprehension strategies, as well as higher level thinking skills.
The before reading or pre-reading activities include Word Masters to Movie Scripts and Lecture Notes. Word Masters is a fast-paced activity that introduces robust vocabulary, while Movie Scripts bridges the vocabulary words to academic oral language utilizing a movie script twist. Another pre-reading activity is Lecture Notes. Unique interactive Lecture Notes utilize narrative and expository text structure elements and sophisticated oral language practice to frontload students with background knowledge to access the language arts, science or social studies core curriculum.
In the during reading part of the lesson plan is my List and Draw, Question, then React process that guides students to comprehend the story or information. During this process, students learn monitoring and clarifying, predicting and inferring, questioning as well as sequencing or identifying the most important details.
In the after reading part of the lesson plan, systematic and explicit instruction is utilized for teachers to guide their students to summarize the text, as well as target skills requiring higher-level thinking.
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