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Catherine Martell, Shannon Hood
& Kamila Al Marhubi
Principle #6: Effective teachers organize for literacy instruction
Overview
• Introduction
• Popular reading programs
• Basal reading programs, literature focus units, literature circles, reading and writing workshop
• Wrap up
Intro
• Organization is the key to success
• Combination of approaches
• Building on personal literacy
• Classroom organization
Literature Focus Units• District or state approved award winning, high
quality picture-book stories & novels
• Everyone reads the same books and responds together as a class
• Teachers sometime read aloud if book is too difficult for some children
• Children create projects to extend understanding
• Teachers support learning through explicit instruction and reading & writing activities
• Teachers choose the books so children may not be interested
Literature Circles• Small groups of children read and
respond to stories or books
• Teacher selects 5 or 6 related books and collects multiple copies
• Teacher gives a ‘book talk’ to introduce the book
• Children choose their own book and work independently
• Children learn to respond to books and develop responsibility for completing assignment
• Some children may choose books that are too easy or too difficult
Basal Reading Programs
Commercially produce reading programs
Textbooks, workbooks and instructional teacher’s editions
Less work for teacher - good or bad?
But can it teach children to love reading and writing?
Image from www.wikipedia.org
Reading and Writing Workshop
authentic reading and writing
freedom of choice about what to read and write
conference with teachers
mini-lessons: strategies and skills, reading aloud
independence and responsibility
reading and writing at different levelsImages from www.google.com/images
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The Very Messy Classroom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW_Kyrc9ztU
Discussion questions
• What is wrong with this scenario?
• What could the teacher do differently to be more organised?
Thanks!And remember, organization is an ongoing process that
presents a challenge for all teachers