Trostle Talk - 23

Questions to spark your thinking:

1. What is my primary purpose for this portion of the instructional day?

2. How can I support students in 'unlocking the code', 'applying the code', and 'understanding the code'?

3. What are the few high-power instructional routines that I want to do well?

Learn more about using stretch texts by reading this blog by Dr. Tim Shanahan

Interested in trying partner reading? Check out this resource for a highly effective partner reading protocol.

These first graders are reading a Geodes book - a stretch text for them. On day 1 with the book, the teacher supported students by choral reading and modeling prosody. This is day 2 with the book -- the first day of independent reading. The teacher will gather notes on the types of errors students are making (error-correct in the moment) and reinforce those words with the whole group in the next lesson. Once the students are reading with accuracy and automaticity, the teacher will place an increased focus on understanding.

These two students are partner reading the Geodes book.

Learn more about the 4 Lenses of Learning identified by Penn Literacy Network by accessing the 2 PDF documents below.

Episode 1: What is Reading Comprehension?

Episode 2: Subtypes of Readers

Episode 3: How do I find the reading level of my students?

Episode 4: The Reading Rope - Word Recognition

Episode 5: The Reading Rope - Phonological Awareness

Episode 6: The Reading Rope - Decoding

Episode 7: The Reading Rope - Sight Recognition

Episode 8: The Reading Rope - Background Knowledge

Episode 9: The Reading Rope - Vocabulary

Episode 10: The Reading Rope - Language Structures (because/but/so)

Episode 11: The Reading Rope - Verbal Reasoning

Episode 12: The Reading Rope - Literacy Knowledge

Episode 13: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Basics

Episode 14: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Phoneme Grapheme Mapping

Episode 15: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Morphemes

Episode 16: Instructional Routines - Scrambled Sentences

Episode 17: Instructional Routines - Sentence Expansion

Episode 18: Instructional Routines - Blending Lines

Episode 19: Teaching the Word Recognition Strands

Episode 20: Instructional Routines - Morpheme Trees

Episode 21: Instructional Routines - Itty Bitty Books

Episode 22: Allocating Instructional Time

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