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July 10, 2016
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Balanced Literacy
Classroom
The Balanced Literacy approach is
based on providing the best
instruction possible…and then
providing students with
opportunities to work
independently after appropriate
gradual release of responsibility.
A Balanced Approach To
Literacy Instruction...
A variety of instructional strategies
A variety of instructional materials
Uses trade books, leveled books, and basal readers
Authentic and Explicit Teaching and Literacy Activities
Develops Students Skills Knowledge (decoding, comprehension, spelling, etc.)
Includes word study and phonics within authentic explicit teaching and extension literacy activities
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing… (integrated language arts)
Best Instructional Practices ARE
Important in ALL Classrooms!
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“Read like a detective, write like an investigative reporter.” -David Coleman – co-author of ELA CCSS
SO…WHAT DOES
“IT” LOOK LIKE?
“If you can’t make
something simple…you
don’t understand it. If you
don’t understand it... then
you can’t teach it.”
—Albert Einstein
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What might we see?
Large group area where students can
comfortably sit together to learn from
teacher and collaborate to extend that
learning
Texts for SHARED / CLOSE Reading
Resources for teacher’s strategic mini
lessons and interactive teaching/learning
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What might we see?
Table / area for small group teacher
explicit instruction and strategic support
Appropriate texts with a variety of leveled
texts and leveled up texts for application
Resources for teacher’s strategic
instruction and scaffolding including
literacy tools to engage and empower
SMALL GROUP
SMALL GROUP
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What might we see? Areas for students to practice and apply reading,
writing, and word study practice independently
and/or collaboratively
Appropriate texts with a variety of leveled texts
and leveled up texts for practice and application
Student resources (i.e. literacy tools, classroom
libraries, individual book boxes, meaningful
literacy stations, and other lesson extension
materials
INDEPENDENT &
COLLABORATIVE
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENT
ANCHOR CHARTS: Anchoring
Teaching & Learning
LITERACY TOOLS for Teaching & Learning
BOOK BOXES
STUDENT BOOK BASKETS CAN INCLUDE: Informational Texts Literature Texts Chapter Books Picture Books Poetry Magazines Articles Reader Response Journal Post Its Literacy Tools
CLASSROOM LIBRARY
VARIETY
PROCEDURES
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Reading Wide & Deep…
Reading is a Balance of:
LITERATURE
INFORMATIONAL
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COMPREHENSION
Fiction-
Literature
&
Nonfiction
Informational
“WALKS”
• Retell
• Recount
• Literary
Elements
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Wheel of Literature * Wheel of Informational
Literature / Informational Literacy Tools
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Kathy Bumgardner, M.Ed.
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