Balanced Literacy Refresher #3: Strategy Lessons

Balanced Literacy Refresher #3:

Strategy Lessons

Learning Objectives:

Teachers will be able to… Understand the difference

between guided reading and strategy lessons

Plan and implement guided reading and strategy lessons

Collaborate with grade level colleagues across the district

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Balanced Literacy Overview

Reading Instruction

Interactive Reading

Teacher models

proficient reader

behaviors and

strategies

Shared Reading

Students practice

fluency with daily focus with shared

text

Whole Group

Instruction

Teacher explicitly

models and teaches reading

strategies

Indep.Reading

Students choose and read texts

at their independent level

Small Group

Instruction

Teacher works with

small groups using

leveled texts and/or specific

strategies

Small Group Structures Guided

Reading Teaches the reader

HOW TO READ, tucking in comprehension work

Teacher researches reading behaviors and determining teaching point

Students have the same leveled text in hand

Strategy Lessons

Teaches ANY strategy needed by students, determined by teacher observations or assessments (STAR)

Teacher follows structure of a mini-lesson (connect, teach, engage, link)

Shared text or independent text

What is your

current practice

with Strategy

Lessons?

Turn and Talk

What is the ultimate goal

of LITERACY?“The ultimate goal of literacy is to enable students to learn how satisfying reading and writing are and to establish lifelong

reading and writing habits. Teachers who themselves engage in reading and

writing, and who examine their habits and attitudes as readers and writers, can best

help students experience the power of their own literacy.”

-Fountas & Pinnell-Guiding Readers and Writers

Spy on yourself as a READER!

Step 1:Respond as a READER. Highlight, underline, jot thoughts in the margins.Step 2:Read and respond as a teacher. Jot down teaching points or learning objectives and tricky parts of text.

SKILL = a discrete unit of learning

Sound of short /a/ Sequence of events WHAT

STRATEGY = a plan for using skills to accomplish a larger task. Strategies involve metacognition.

Using a decoding strategy to unlock new wordsUsing a comprehension strategy to monitor

understanding BY…

Skill vs. Strategy

– Connection (1 min) Unit of study, student work, outside

experience “We have been working on...“

– Teaching Point (5 min) Student Learning Objective: What (SKILL),

By (STRATEGY), Why (MOTIVATION) “Today, I will teach you…Watch me as I...”

– Active Engagement (5 min) Students try out skill, watch demo, imagine “Now, it’s your turn...”

– Link (1 min)“Today and everyday...”

STRUCTUREof Strategy Lessons

Just like a MINILESSON

!

MiniLessons for MANAGEMENT

Managing Community Interaction– IF: Students are not engaged in partner talk– TEACH: Readers talk about books with friends by…

Managing Material– IF: Students have messy book baggies/boxes– TEACH: Readers stay organized by...

Managing Independent Reading– IF… Students are reading through books quickly– TEACH… Readers think deeply about what

they’re reading by…– TEACH… Readers keep track of their reading by…

MiniLessons forSTRATEGIES/

SKILLSWord Solving

– IF: Students are stretching out each sound for each word

– TEACH: Readers use chunks to help them figure out tricky words by…

Visual/Print Features– IF: Students are reading the text only– TEACH: Readers read the picture by...

Processing Fluency– IF… Students are reading without stopping– TEACH… Readers use punctuation to show

meaning by…

MiniLessons forSTRATEGIES/

SKILLSComprehending Strategies

– IF: Students can retell random parts in random order– TEACH: Readers retell stories by…

Characteristics of Texts– IF: Students read nonfiction texts like literature– TEACH: Readers read to get information by…

Personal Response– IF… Students are not responding in journals– TEACH… Readers respond to reading by…

Comprehension Strategies

Kindergarten FOCUS: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections

1st Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections FOCUS: Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring

2nd Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections,

Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring FOCUS: Determining Importance, Summarizing (fiction)

3rd Grade REVIEW: Retelling, Envisioning, Making Connections,

Monitoring for Meaning, Asking Qs, Inferring, Determining Importance

FOCUS: Summarizing (nonfiction)

Strategy Lesson Planning Workshop

1. Extract your STAR Early

Literacy Instructional Planning

data

2. Choose a strategy need for a

group of students in your class

3. Plan the strategy lesson

Thank you for your

participation!