Foundational Reading Skills
Collaborative Literacy Foundational Reading Skills K-2 – IRC 9/29/16
The Center for the Collaborative Classroom is a nonprofit organization dedicated to students’ growth as critical thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another.
Building a Foundation To support all students to develop the early reading strategies so they grow as readers and independent learners.
To create an environment which provides opportunities for students to work together, develop socially and ethically and grow as caring members of a classroom community.
“Every Child Every Day” Read and discuss Richard Allington’s article. What do you…
Agree with
Argue against
Aspire to
How are you providing these opportunities daily? Every child reads something he or she chooses.
Every child reads accurately.
Every child reads something he or she understands.
Every child writes about something personally meaningful.
Every child talks with peers about reading and writing.
Every child listens to a fluent adult read aloud.
Provide beginning readers with ample opportunities to interact with print. • Participating in shared book experiences • Listening to stories • Making language-experience stories/books • Composing stories through play • Enacting dialogue • Reading and writing predictable books Best Practices pg. 107
Bedtime reading is an intimate, relaxed experience with a focus on enjoyment and meaning. Hence the need to gather children around in a classroom, to create a learning setting that is non-competitive, using enlarged text that is clearly seen by everyone. The objectives of shared book experience cannot be achieved without daily use of enlarged print. Don Holdaway
Shared Reading Lesson Purpose Academic Focus • Students listen to, discuss, and chorally read a story. • Students learn and practice reading highfrequency words.
Social Development Focus • Students participate responsibly. • Students listen carefully.
Shared Reading, Day 1 In this lesson, students: • Listen to and discuss a story • Listen carefully
Shared Reading
Day 2 In this lesson, the students: Chorally read a story Learn and find the high-frequency words I, see, and a Participate responsibly
What did you notice about the instruction in this lesson?
Benefits of Shared Reading • Promotes and develops a sense of community • Children can attend to what is personally meaningful, interesting, and functional and share it with others • Engages all children in reading-like behavior • Students can take risks, approximate, self-correct, and comprehend • Validates reading as a meaning making process • Provides models • Gives opportunities for children at any stage of reading development to be successful
Extending Beyond Shared Reading Create a Big Book
Independent Work Connections Have the big book version of I Went Walking available for students to read during independent reading. Collect copies of I Went Walking along with the class book from the Extension Activity and place them in the reading bins for the students to read during independent reading. Read the high-frequency cards with the students whenever there are a few extra minutes during the day. Copy the words onto individual index cards and place sets of the cards in the word work bins for the students to use for reading practice.
Qualities of Best Practices in Reading • Provide beginning readers with many opportunities to interact with print • Do everything in your power to get students excited to read • Provide access to a wide and rich array of print • Give students choice • Give students daily opportunities to talk about their reading
In what ways might you plan for your youngest readers to have ample opportunities to interact with print?
Kristy Rauch [email protected]
312-520-3559
The Center for the Collaborative Classroom is a nonprofit organization dedicated to students’ growth as critical thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another.
Building a Foundation To support all students to develop the early reading strategies so they grow as readers and independent learners.
To create an environment which provides opportunities for students to work together, develop socially and ethically and grow as caring members of a classroom community.
“Every Child Every Day” Read and discuss Richard Allington’s article. What do you…
Agree with
Argue against
Aspire to
How are you providing these opportunities daily? Every child reads something he or she chooses.
Every child reads accurately.
Every child reads something he or she understands.
Every child writes about something personally meaningful.
Every child talks with peers about reading and writing.
Every child listens to a fluent adult read aloud.
Provide beginning readers with ample opportunities to interact with print. • Participating in shared book experiences • Listening to stories • Making language-experience stories/books • Composing stories through play • Enacting dialogue • Reading and writing predictable books Best Practices pg. 107
Bedtime reading is an intimate, relaxed experience with a focus on enjoyment and meaning. Hence the need to gather children around in a classroom, to create a learning setting that is non-competitive, using enlarged text that is clearly seen by everyone. The objectives of shared book experience cannot be achieved without daily use of enlarged print. Don Holdaway
Shared Reading Lesson Purpose Academic Focus • Students listen to, discuss, and chorally read a story. • Students learn and practice reading highfrequency words.
Social Development Focus • Students participate responsibly. • Students listen carefully.
Shared Reading, Day 1 In this lesson, students: • Listen to and discuss a story • Listen carefully
Shared Reading
Day 2 In this lesson, the students: Chorally read a story Learn and find the high-frequency words I, see, and a Participate responsibly
What did you notice about the instruction in this lesson?
Benefits of Shared Reading • Promotes and develops a sense of community • Children can attend to what is personally meaningful, interesting, and functional and share it with others • Engages all children in reading-like behavior • Students can take risks, approximate, self-correct, and comprehend • Validates reading as a meaning making process • Provides models • Gives opportunities for children at any stage of reading development to be successful
Extending Beyond Shared Reading Create a Big Book
Independent Work Connections Have the big book version of I Went Walking available for students to read during independent reading. Collect copies of I Went Walking along with the class book from the Extension Activity and place them in the reading bins for the students to read during independent reading. Read the high-frequency cards with the students whenever there are a few extra minutes during the day. Copy the words onto individual index cards and place sets of the cards in the word work bins for the students to use for reading practice.
Qualities of Best Practices in Reading • Provide beginning readers with many opportunities to interact with print • Do everything in your power to get students excited to read • Provide access to a wide and rich array of print • Give students choice • Give students daily opportunities to talk about their reading
In what ways might you plan for your youngest readers to have ample opportunities to interact with print?
Kristy Rauch [email protected]
312-520-3559
