Opportunities to Respond

Opportunities to Respond: The Literacy Rich Environment

Nancy B. Hertzog

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presentation to the Illini Reading Council, February 6, 2001

What is Literacy?

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking

Best Practices Writing

Ownership - choice Authentic - purposeful Focus on growth - self-evaluation Focus on expression Writing as a process

Reading Choice of reading materials Independent reading Many genres of literature Emphasis on comprehension Writing before and after reading

Daily Sign-In Question

Do you want to study the squirrels on the playground?

Do the clouds seem high or low?

When we put the clay ball in the water, will the water level go up, down, or stay the same?

Daily Questions

Interviewing an Expert

Self-Evaluation

Shared Experience

Drawing and Labeling

Planning

Journal Writing

Print Experiences and Environments

(Duke, 2000)

Amount of Print Books, magazines Classroom walls and other surfaces Amount of time in which print was

involved in classroom activities

Type of Print Experienced Reading and writing extended text, not

just letter, word, phrase, or single sentence form

Nature of Print Experience: Student Agency With Print Students becoming readers and writers,

users of print

We have been doing lots of experiments about water (melting snow, freezing, and crystalizing). Me, Joe, and Konlin have crystalized water, sugar, salt, and pepper. We have been crystalizing ‘water and sugar’ and ‘water and salt’ into crystals.

By Michael

A Newspaper Article About Water

Experiments

Categorizing Ideas

Story Comparisons

Displays: Opportunities for Reflection

Explaining Our Work

Using the Internet

Preparing Our Presentation

Buddy Reading

acorn: a round seed that squirrels like to eat

bark: "the skin of the tree," it's hard and it's bumpy

blossom: a flower that's opening up in the forest in the spring

branch: a brown part of a tree that holds the leaves and the flowers.

forest: a dark place with really

tall trees, a lot of animals, and sometimes there's bats

nest: a place for birds and eggs

sap: it's a liquid, it's on pine cones

trunk: wood that makes sugar for the tree to eat and sucks out water for the tree

Increasing Vocabulary Definitions from 3/4 year olds

The snow is like glittering crystals shining in the light.The trees are like cones filed with glitter,and the grass is like shining gold.The winter is filled with wonderful things. It is filled with light and crystals and glitter and the fence is beautiful.

Sheri 3/4/98

The Snow

Poetry

The winter is like a blanketand the snow is like a bowl of crystals and the grass is like a bowl of goldand the trees are sparkling pieces of the sunand the ground looks like pretty glitter, pretty glitter.

Erin 3/4/98

The Winter

Written collectively by K-1 Class and performed for parents and friends on Share Day.(to the tune of Row, Row, Row your Boat, More or less)

(Atoms!)Water has 2 hydrogen

and one oxygen.Put them altogether andThey make a molecule.

If you don’t have water,You could not survive.

Water is important.Let’s say that again.

If you don’t have water,You could not survive.

Water is important.We won’t say that again.

Water can be hot.Water can be cold.

Water can be ice or steamor you can watch it slow.

Water Song

Definitions

Vocabulary

Stories

Songs Questions

Poetry

Interviews

Opportunities to Respond

Surveys

News Articles

Writing Experiments

Writing Letters

More Opportunities to Respond

“Reading the Wall!”

Reading for Enjoyment