reading workshop series day 4

READING WORKSHOP SERIES

DAY 4

Jennifer Evans

Assistant Director ELA

St. Clair County RESA

Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org

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?