Jennifer Evans

Assistant Director ELA

St. Clair County RESA

Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org

http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer

Agenda

Discussion of Homework / Review

of Session 1

Flexible Instructional Groups – Your Small Group

Profile

Text to Reader Match

Leveled Text

Reading Process

Lesson Plans

Homework

“Effective classroom

teachers are the only

absolutely essential

element of an effective

school.”

- Allington & Cunningham, 1997

Literacy development is

dependent upon effective

instruction, access to

quality reading material

and the time engaged in

reading.

Research

A study completed by Anderson

et.al. illustrates that an avid

reader in fifth grade reading 90

minutes per day scored in the

98th percentile on standardized

tests.

Classroom Libraries

Research tells us that classroom libraries are utilized more than school or public libraries.

Richard Allington suggests a primary classroom teacher needs to have a minimum of 1200 different titles in a classroom library and intermediate classrooms should have a minimum of 750 titles.

Students must have access to books (at their level and their choice) in order to practice the skills and strategies being taught.

Review

Discussion of Homework: Article –Classroom Reading Assessments (chapter 1) by Frank Serafini

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Type response to question:

What did you find was the most valuable piece of information for you in the chapter?

Take 5 to

review

Reading

Workshop

Elements

Small Group Profile

Name Strengths Skill Needed Data

Small Group Profile

Name Reading

Level

Interests Strengths Strategies

Needed

QSI

Level

Rick’s Reading Workshop

Overview

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/

reading-workshop-overview (5:22)

Reading Process

Envelope Activity:

Sort the sentence strips under the following

headings:

○ Emergent Reader Characteristics

○ Early Reader Characteristics

○ Transitional Reader Characteristics

○ Fluent Reader Characteristics

Reading DevelopmentStage Name The Learner

Birth to grade 1 Emergent Literacy Phonological Awareness –

gains control of oral language;

relies heavily on pictures in

text; pretends to read;

recognizes rhyme

Beginning grade 1 Decoding Phonics – grows aware of

sound/symbol relationships;

focuses on printed symbols;

Grade 1 to Grade 3 Confirmation and

Fluency

Develops fluency in reading;

recognizes patterns in words;

checks for meaning;

Grade 4 to 8 Learning the New

(Single Viewpoint)

Uses reading as a tool for

learning; applies reading

strategies; expands vocabulary;

Secondary Multiple Viewpoints Analyzes what is read; reacts

critically to texts; deals with

layers of facts and concepts

Higher Education A Worldview Develops a well-rounded view

of the world through reading

Chips In

Thinking about the reading

process, discuss with your

table how you help your

students make a correct text

to reader match.

Text to Reader Match

Features to consider when selecting a

book:

○ Message and content (appeal to children)

○ Genre (text structure)

○ Language structure

(nature, complexity, tense, frequency, length

of phrases, sentence patterns, length of

book, etc.)

○ Word structures (familiar words, complex

words, decodability)

○ Presentation and Layout

(amount, placement, clarity of text)

Criteria for Determining Text Difficulty

Emergent and Early Readers

Transitional and Fluent Readers

How to choose a good fit book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtHG

h0PVHo (1:40) Animated with Powtoon to show class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_2G

YGjnAnA (2:35) The sisters Mini-lesson

Good Fit Books

http://www.thedailycafe.com/members/2

28.cfm (management of book boxes 2:00)

Managing book boxes

http://www.thedailycafe.com/members/5

98.cfm (4 min.) That book is too hard for you

Just Right Books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocOS

RUBi218 (3:20) Video for parents

Independent Level 96%- 100% Accuracy with good comprehension and fluency

“Just Right”

Instructional Level 90-95% Accuracy Students can read with teacher support and instruction

Frustration Level < 90% Accuracy “Too Hard”

“Just Right” Books

Leveled Text

Fountas and Pinnell’sleveling list

Level It iPad app ($4.00)

Procedure to Level Books (Project STARS)

Text Complexity

by Scholastic

Leveling Practice

Using the texts at your table, practice

leveling them.

Reading Level Correlation

Charts

Colored copy

Word Fluency Added

Leveled chart to use with Rit level (session 1)

Mini-lessons for Independent

Reading

Lesson Plans

1. Plan your small groups

using data

Understand the reading process

2. Be sure to have the correct

text to reader match

3. Create a good literacy environment

5. Plan Guided Reading Lesson

Plans

Recap

Homework:

Read Assessing Adolescents’

Motivation to Read and be prepared to

discuss.

Next time you come bring a lesson plan

for a skill group