Module 9 :  Paths to Literacy

 

Focus Areas:

·        Oral reading fluency assessments

·        Readers workshop:  Independent reading, guided reading, literature circles

 

Materials needed:

Materials provided by training site:

·        Handouts developed by the ISD

·        Sign in sheets, name tags and evaluations

·        A-V equipment, usually an overhead and a VCR (if you need anything else, call the curriculum office of the hosting district to make arrangements.

 

Materials to be brought by the presenter:

·        Chart paper

·        Markers

·        Your prepared overheads

Review:

     15 minutes

·        With a partner, walk and circle the room discussing their QRI result.  Allow 5 minutes for questions and comments.

 

Assessment:

     15 minutes

·        Explain rationale, definition, assessment tools, guidelines, and procedures.

 

Reading Workshop:

     20 minutes

·        Display Reading Workshop Components.

·        Have participants fill out Anticipation Guide, then check answers using the Comparison Chart.

·        Discuss Advantages of Reading Workshop.

 

Independent Reading:

     30 minutes

·        Display Basic Structure for Independent Reading.

·        In table groups, discuss and list 2 to 3 reasons why independent reading is crucial to Readers' Workshop - share with larger group and show Roles of Student and Teacher in Independent Reading.

·        Jigsaw:  First 20 Days of Teaching - Count off the group from 1 to 4; form 4 groups and divide the chart into Day 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20.  Groups must decide what category mini-lessons fall into:

ü      Management skills

ü      Strategies and skills

ü      Literary analysis skills

·        Presenter explains categories:

ü      Management - establish routines and procedures

ü      Strategies and skills - "in the head" processes

ü      Literary skills - to become familiar with author techniques and devices

·        Groups will share with whole group for summarizing information, observations and insights on chart paper (i.e., pictorially, bullets or written out).

·        This activity is to let participants become familiar with and understand the importance of an efficient and well run Readers' Workshop.

·        Samples of classroom charts can be shown quickly after presentations are finished.

·        Display Comparison Chart on Silent Sustained Reading and Independent Reading.

 

Break:

      10 minutes

 

Guided Reading:

     45 minutes

·        KW of a KWL Chart - presenter will record.

·        Choosing a different partner, have participants read and report to each other the Margaret Mooney article Guided Reading Beyond Primary Grades.

ü      Divide the article into 2 parts - each partner reads their half and teaches (reports) the important information to the other.

ü      Presenter may ask for comments and/or questions.

·        Discuss Purpose and Key Elements of Guided Reading.

·        Display a blank lesson plan template and discuss parts of the lesson (a completed lesson plan follows this blank one in the packet and can be used by the presenter as a discussion guide.)

·        Explain Prompt Sheets.  These are also in their Instructional Toolkit.

·        Using the worksheet Introducing the Text, the presenter models how to complete it for the text on Worms (completed version is included in training packet.)

·        After the above demonstration each table group will complete their own Introduction plan for the article Rolling Down the River.

·        Presenter will bring group back together for a quick debriefing taking comments or questions.

·        Print out the suggestions for the 3 Different Kinds of Minilessions from Fountas and Pinnell - remind teachers that minilessons are an integral part of all areas in the reading workshop (independent reading, guided reading, and literature groups).

·        Show Reading Level Chart and Publishers of guided reading materials.

 

Literature Circles/Book Clubs:

     40 minutes

·        Begin with Definitions of Literature Circles by different authors.

·        Using Doreen Hudson's material, give a lecture burst starting from the Purpose and ending with Teaching Procedures of Literature Circles.

·        Have teachers read the article 10 Ways Pets Can Keep You Healthier; then teachers fill out the Literature Circle Discussion Log on the following page.

·        In their table groups, participants discuss the article using prompt guides found in Module 6 - Oral Language to keep conversation going.  The purpose of this activity is to experience Literature Circles and to engage in an active conversation.

·        Display and discuss Etiquette sheet and Rubric for discussion.

·        Show and discuss Reading Log Suggestions and a sample Rubric.

·        Point out self-evaluation chart.

 

Assessment:

     5 minutes

·        Use holistic oral reading fluency rubric on case study student and complete the assessment analysis planning sheet.

·        Fill in questions 7 & 8 on questionnaire.

·        Complete evaluation survey for Module 9.

 

Book list:

·        Point out intermediate book list.