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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

SMALL GROUP

SMALL GROUP

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SMALL GROUP

SMALL GROUP

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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

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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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