October 11th 2010

Comprehensive LiteracyTraining

Beck, Strine, and Yanni, 2010

What is Comprehensive Literacy?Comprehensive Literacy is a framework

of research-based best practices in all aspects of literacy. 

It is continually being refined and enhanced based on research.

Comprehensive literacy provides a framework of instruction for “The Big 8!“

Comprehensive Literacy Graphic

Oral Language

Concepts of Print

Phonemic Awareness

PhonicsSpelling

Fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Writing

Comprehensive Literacy “Look -Fors”

In a Comprehensive Literacy Classroom:

Ongoing assessment informs instruction- Data-driven decision making

Teachers use the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model- I do…We do…You do…

Teachers use research-based best practices to prepare students to be real readers and writers!

Instruction is responsive to students’ needs- Flexible Grouping

The Instructional framework supports differentiation- Reading-Writing Workshop is most effective

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East Pennsboro’s Comprehensive Literacy Plan

… A 3 Year Adventure

Year 1: (2010-2011) Year 2: (2011-2012) Year 3: (2012-2013)

- Full day Comprehensive Literacy Overview-Targeted training in addressing WG, SG, & I reading needs! (Reading Workshop)

-Full day Comprehensive Literacy Refresher - Targeted training in addressing WG, SG, & I writing needs! (Writing Workshop)

Full day Comprehensive Literacy Extension- Targeted training in addressing WG, SG, and I spelling needs!(Word Study)

- Needs-based follow-up training and building level support

- Needs-based follow-up training and building level support

- Needs-based follow-up training and building level support

RtII: The Big Picture-How do RtII and Reading Workshop work together?-Closer look at data and begin to redefine reading intervention framework

RtII: The Big Picture Refresher-How do RtII and Writing Workshop work together?-Determine a process for identifying and intervening for students with writing difficulties

RtII: Extension-How do RtII and Word Study work together?-Determine a process for identifying and intervening for students with word study difficulties

May be overlap in interventions

Reading Workshop Components

Let’s Watch Reading Workshop In Action

“Undoubtedly the single most important strategy in literacy education is the reading-writing workshop. The workshop model is simple and powerful. It derives from the insight that children learn to read by reading and write by writing, and that schools have simply failed in the past to provide enough guided practice. It recognizes that kids need less telling and more showing, that they need more time to do literacy and less time hearing about what reading and writing might be like if you ever did them.” -- New Standards in Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools, 2005 

Creating an Environment that Supports Comprehensive Literacy

The Reading/Writing Workshop

Classroom LibraryIndependent

Reading

Whole Group instruction

Technology Guided Reading

Classroom Supplies

Work Board

Literacy Opportunities

Let’s Look at Some Sample SchedulesSchedule 1Schedule 2Schedule 3

Breakout Sessions