what works in literacy instruction high-quality literacy framework
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WHAT WORKS IN LITERACY INSTRUCTION
High-Quality Literacy Framework
Reading: Inseparable from Overall Literacy
Reading: Inseparable from Overall Literacy
Oral language development
Children’s oral language competence is strongly predictive of their facility in learning to read and write: listening and speaking vocabulary and even mastery of syntax set boundaries as to what children can read and understand no matter how well they can decode.
CCSS Appendix A, pg. 26
Reading: Inseparable from Overall Literacy
Reading – Writing Connection
Writing about text enhances youngsters’ comprehension of it.Teaching students how to write strengthens their comprehension, fluency, and word reading skills.Increasing how much students write improves how well they read.
Writing to Read, Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading, Carnegie Corporation Report,
pg. 23
Reading: Inseparable from Overall Literacy
Iowa Core Intent
An integrated model of literacy
Although the Standards are divided into Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Language strands for conceptual clarity, the processes of communication are closely connected…
Iowa Core ELA Standards, pg. 4
Immerse Students in Literacy
Purposefully provide…Opportunities for discussion in small and large
groupsClassroom libraries that are well organizedEasy access to booksWide and deep selection of reading materialsFiction and nonfiction textsEasy access to writing toolsPlaces to read, write, and collaborate Student and group writing displayed
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Sentences generated during shared writing
and reading are displayed for easy
reference.
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Allington (2001) recommends “at least 500 different books in every classroom”
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Nonfiction and Fiction . . .providing a more balanced reading diet
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Spaces to read, write and practice literacy skills should exist in
every classroom.
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Paragraphs from composing together provide content for reading practice for
groups and for individuals. They also serve as reference
sources—and provide writing examples.
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Word walls for working on rimes, phonics generalizations, morphemes and parts of speech
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Writing, revising, reading . . . Engaging students in moving ideas from the mind,
to speech, to print
Immerse Students in Literacy
Table talk …
Organizing Principals
Note on Range and Content of Student Reading K-5
…Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths and exposure to visual media from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. Students can only gain this foundation when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades. …
Iowa Core English Language Arts Standards, pg. 10
Sufficient Time, Range and Content
Table talk…
How is your schedule supporting literacy
development?
How are classroom texts supporting literacy
development?
Research-based Strategies
Sufficient Time, Range and Content
Table talk…
How do you monitor and study implementation?How do you know when
it’s working?
Essential Elements of Literacy
Print ConceptsPhonemic AwarenessPhonicsFluencyVocabularyComprehensionWriting
Every Day Data
Learning is the Constant
Time + Instruction = Learning
Learning is the Constant
Time + Instruction = Learning
Iowa Reading Research Center