Lesson 4.1: Effective Instructional Practices
Focus: Understand the various developmental stages of reading and how to deliver effective instructional practices.
Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting
1. Reflection Journal
Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:
- What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
- How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?
Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.
2. Readings
Before the Collaboration Group meeting, read through the information in this lesson, which is listed below. Feel free to take notes and underline new terms for unfamiliar vocabulary while you are reading.
NOTE: To print the linked documents, do the following:
- Put your mouse on the document and right click. You will see a window that asks you where you want to download the document.
- Determine where you want to save the document.
- After saving the document, open and print it in MS Word.
- Read Effective Instructional Practices and Continuum of Reading Behaviors in this lesson.
- Read On Solid Ground (pp. 9-32).
- Read Literacy Education Certificate Course IV (pp. 97-113).
3. Classroom Application
- Place each of your students in one of the stages in Reading Stages of Students Form in this lesson. Use your state standards and benchmarks including any assessment and observation information to help you. Then, determine what your goals are for each specific group of students.
- Continue to provide target instruction throughout the year and revisit and revise your form as students progress and move from one stage to the next.
- Complete the Reading Stages of Students Comment Sheet in this lesson. Bring a copy to the Collaboration Group meeting.
During the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Share your reflection journal entries.
- Determine assignment and Collaboration Group meeting dates for Module 4.
- Lesson 4.1: Effective Instructional Practices
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Reading Stages of Students Form and Comment Sheet due_____
- Lesson 4.2: Reading Aloud
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Reading Aloud Comment Sheet due_____
- Lesson 4.3: Language Experience Approach
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
LEA Lesson due _____
- Lesson 4.4: Shared Reading
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Shared Reading Framework due _____
- Lesson 4.5: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Phonological Awareness Activity Response Form due _____
- Lesson 4.6: Phonics and Interactive Writing
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Lesson Plan and Interactive Writing Lesson Questionnaire due _____
- Lesson 4.7: Structured Independent Reading and Dialogue Journals
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Structured Independent Reading Questionnaire due _____
- Lesson 4.8: Profile of Reading Instructional Practices
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Snapshot Profile of Reading Instructional Practices due _____
- Lesson 4.9: Evaluation and Literacy Talk
Collaboration Group meeting date _____
Module 4 Evaluation due date _____
- The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in sharing their Reading Stages of Students Comment Sheet and reflection journal. The facilitator should consider asking the following discussion questions:
- How can standards, benchmarks, and the continuum focus reading instruction?
- How can we implement Routman’s model for Effective Teaching and Learning?
- How does the new information presented in this module impact your philosophy of teaching and learning?
- Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.
After the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Email a copy of your Reading Stages of Students Form and Comment Sheet to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in each file name.
- The recorder emails the Collaboration Group notes and due dates to the instructor.
- The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.
|
