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Urgency High & wide text reading Tier 1 Core Instruction Tier 1 Core Practice {Quarter.Week.Session.Minute} Key Data details detective... Mostly About Big Idea Bigger Idea Key Details Wh

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Urgency

High & wide text reading

Tier 1 Core Instruction

Tier 1 Core Practice

{Quarter.Week.Session.Minute}

Key Data details detective

“ One of the beauties

of teaching is that there is no limit to one’s growth as a

teacher, just as there is no knowing

beforehand how much your students can learn.” –Herbert Kohl

Cooperative (together) – Communication (conversing) – Without Me

Developing Problem-Solvers

in a Student Centered Classroom

Problem Solving

Framework

Helping Kids Get in the Right Lane

What features can help me?

Mostly About Big Idea Bigger Idea Key Details

What is the author’s message?

What did he want me to think or understand?

What is this really about?

Who is talking?

How does the author want

me to feel?

What is the tune? How does it go? What’s the feeling?

What’s the message?

What is Fluency?

automaticity & familiarity

in school? in life?

Standards Pop Quiz

Write a summary of the key details

What does the word “meander” mean? How did the character change?

Who’s point of view is this story?

Infer why the river is polluted?

Compare two versions of The 3 Pigs

Agree or disagree with the author?

What text structure is this article?

_ 2

_

8 5 9 1 6 3 4

Theme, Lesson

& summary Summary, Big Ideas,Main Ideas & Details

Vocabulary

Figurative Language Vocabulary in theContent Areas

Plot, Characters Connectedness between

People, Places, Things Point of View Point of View

Literal & Inferential

Comp w/ Evidence Literal & InferentialComp w/ Evidence

Compare/Contrast

Two Texts Compare/ContrastTwo Texts

Text Structures Text Structures

(text features)

Evaluate Author’s Claims &

Reasons Text & Visual Integration Text & Visual Integration Text Complexity Text Complexity

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Fluency Vocabulary

Compre

-hension

the Big 7

ROCKS

OF LITERACY

posted objective = mini-lesson = GR teaching focus

Are your delivering

mini-lessons or

maxi lessons?

Precise Planning = Total Alignment

Purposeful Book Selection

Planning for Groups, is aligned to…

Whole Group Planning

Reading A-Z

Photocopier

Guided Reading Can be Messy…

…and Meaningful!

Everyone reading…

…at the same time!

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Guided Reading Teachers are…

…Data Managers!

Phonics

in Foundational Order

Source: www.janrichardsonguidedreading.com

• M S V - leaves off or changes around word endings

• M S V - said sprayed for spreads“its toes to walk across the lilypads [Who sprays out

their toes?”

TRC Intervention Recommendations:

• Teach self-monitoring when things don’t sound right

• Teach him to visually attend to word endings

• Teach him some visualization strategies by drawing out sentences and one topic at a time

• Teach use of graphing to organize story details with a focus on standards 1, 2, 3

Urgency with Your Questioning

Browsing Boxes

Building Writing Stamina

Building Reading Fluency & Writing

Stamina

Home Reading

8-12 Books in the Basket

6X to me 6X to you

Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Fantasy Fiction

Informational/ Non-Fiction Poetry

A Balanced Reading Diet –www.helloliteracy.blogspot.com

A Balanced Reading Diet

Classroom Library

Reading Response….and…

Reading Romance

Reading Collaboration

Eyes On Print Time

If we teach to the test, then we’ve lost the whole purpose of reading

Foster the TRUE

LOVE of reading That’s not in any

standard anywhere!

Low Prep

High Yield

teaching & learning every ELA area at Tier 1

“Teaching and learning at higher levels means planning for higher level teaching and learning.”

Thank You!