Balanced Literacy Refresher #3: Strategy Lessons
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Balanced Literacy Refresher #3:
Strategy Lessons
Learning Objectives:
Teachers will be able to… Understand the difference
between guided reading and strategy lessons
Plan and implement guided reading and strategy lessons
Collaborate with grade level colleagues across the district
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Balanced Literacy Overview
Reading Instruction
Interactive Reading
Teacher models
proficient reader
behaviors and
strategies
Shared Reading
Students practice
fluency with daily focus with shared
text
Whole Group
Instruction
Teacher explicitly
models and teaches reading
strategies
Indep.Reading
Students choose and read texts
at their independent level
Small Group
Instruction
Teacher works with
small groups using
leveled texts and/or specific
strategies
Small Group Structures Guided
Reading Teaches the reader
HOW TO READ, tucking in comprehension work
Teacher researches reading behaviors and determining teaching point
Students have the same leveled text in hand
Strategy Lessons
Teaches ANY strategy needed by students, determined by teacher observations or assessments (STAR)
Teacher follows structure of a mini-lesson (connect, teach, engage, link)
Shared text or independent text
What is your
current practice
with Strategy
Lessons?
Turn and Talk
What is the ultimate goal
of LITERACY?“The ultimate goal of literacy is to enable students to learn how satisfying reading and writing are and to establish lifelong
reading and writing habits. Teachers who themselves engage in reading and
writing, and who examine their habits and attitudes as readers and writers, can best
help students experience the power of their own literacy.”
-Fountas & Pinnell-Guiding Readers and Writers
Spy on yourself as a READER!
Step 1:Respond as a READER. Highlight, underline, jot thoughts in the margins.Step 2:Read and respond as a teacher. Jot down teaching points or learning objectives and tricky parts of text.
SKILL = a discrete unit of learning
Sound of short /a/ Sequence of events WHAT
STRATEGY = a plan for using skills to accomplish a larger task. Strategies involve metacognition.
Using a decoding strategy to unlock new wordsUsing a comprehension strategy to monitor
understanding BY…
Skill vs. Strategy
– Connection (1 min) Unit of study, student work, outside
experience “We have been working on...“
– Teaching Point (5 min) Student Learning Objective: What (SKILL),
By (STRATEGY), Why (MOTIVATION) “Today, I will teach you…Watch me as I...”
– Active Engagement (5 min) Students try out skill, watch demo, imagine “Now, it’s your turn...”
– Link (1 min)“Today and everyday...”
STRUCTUREof Strategy Lessons
Just like a MINILESSON
!
MiniLessons for MANAGEMENT
Managing Community Interaction– IF: Students are not engaged in partner talk– TEACH: Readers talk about books with friends by…
Managing Material– IF: Students have messy book baggies/boxes– TEACH: Readers stay organized by...
Managing Independent Reading– IF… Students are reading through books quickly– TEACH… Readers think deeply about what
they’re reading by…– TEACH… Readers keep track of their reading by…
MiniLessons forSTRATEGIES/
SKILLSWord Solving
– IF: Students are stretching out each sound for each word
– TEACH: Readers use chunks to help them figure out tricky words by…
Visual/Print Features– IF: Students are reading the text only– TEACH: Readers read the picture by...
Processing Fluency– IF… Students are reading without stopping– TEACH… Readers use punctuation to show
meaning by…
MiniLessons forSTRATEGIES/
SKILLSComprehending Strategies
– IF: Students can retell random parts in random order– TEACH: Readers retell stories by…
Characteristics of Texts– IF: Students read nonfiction texts like literature– TEACH: Readers read to get information by…
Personal Response– IF… Students are not responding in journals– TEACH… Readers respond to reading by…
Comprehension Strategies
Kindergarten FOCUS: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections
1st Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections FOCUS: Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring
2nd Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections,
Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring FOCUS: Determining Importance, Summarizing (fiction)
3rd Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections,
Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring, Determining Importance
FOCUS: Summarizing (nonfiction)
Strategy Lesson Planning Workshop
1. Extract your STAR Early
Literacy Instructional Planning
data
2. Choose a strategy need for a
group of students in your class
3. Plan the strategy lesson
Thank you for your
participation!