Spotlight on Independent Reading and Writing in a Balanced Literacy Curriculum

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Spotlight on Independent Reading and Writingin
a Balanced Literacy Curriculum

• Rochelle DeMuccio, Coordinator ELA and Reading
  K-5
• Half Hollow Hills Central School District
• November 27, 2006

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Balanced Literacy

• TO Reading Aloud
• Modeling Writing
• WITH Shared Reading
• Interactive Writing
• Guided Reading
• BY Independent Reading and Writing

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Independent Reading and WritingBest Practices

• Students need models
• Students need choice
• Students need a lot of practice
• Students need time
• Students need authentic purposes
• Students need real audiences feedback
• Students need to slow down go deeper

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Units of Study

• Continuum - Kindergarten through Grade 5
• Reading and Writing Units
• Time Frames
• Goals - Knowledge, Understandings, Skills
• Essential Questions
• Overview
• N.Y.S. Standards, Indicators, Competencies
• Materials and Resources

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English Language Arts OverviewWRITING
SNAPSHOTS

• Across First Grade

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English Language ArtsFirst Grade Writing

• Unit Title Time Frame
• Launching Writers Workshop September/4 weeks
• Essential Questions
• -Why is writing important in our lives?
• -What is writing workshop?

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First Grade - Launching Writers Workshop

• Overview
• Students will develop an understanding of the
  writing workshop, including the rules and
  routines necessary for it to function. They will
  know that workshops consist of a minilesson,
  guided practice, independent practice, and a
  sharing time. Students will understand that the
  goal of writing workshop is to learn strategies
  for independence. They will understand and apply
  the writing process (choosing topics, drafting
  ideas, revising and editing), with support.

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First Grade - Launching Writers Workshop

• N.Y.S. English Language Arts Standards
• Students will read, write, listen and speak for
• 1 - information and understanding
• 2- literacy response and expression
• 3- critical analysis and evaluation
• 4- social interaction

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First Grade - Launching Writers Workshop

• Standard 4
• Read, write, listen and speak for social
  interaction
• Indicator Maintain a portfolio of writings and
  drawings for sharing.
• Indicator Share the process of writing with
  peers or adults for example, write with a
  partner or write in a cooperative group.

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First Grade - Launching Writers Workshop

• N.Y.S. English Language Arts Competencies
• Across the Four Standards
• Write voluntarily to communicate to others.
• Use developing knowledge of letter-sound
• correspondences to spell grade level words.
• Represent most phonemes in invented spelling
  
• (k-a-t for cat).
• Use conventional spelling for high frequency
  words.

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English Language Arts Overview

• READING SNAPSHOTS
• Across 5th Grade

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English Language ArtsFifth Grade Reading

• Unit Title Time Frame
• Character Study Nov./Dec. 4 weeks
• Essential Questions
• -How does an understanding of character help
  readers develop deeper meaning across a single
  story or across several stories?

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Fifth Grade - Character Study

• Overview
• In this unit, students will analyze the thoughts
  and actions of characters. Readers will build
  upon this analysis to develop theories that can
  be supported and proved through text evidence. A
  deeper understanding of a character will lead
  students to an appreciation and understanding of
  story theme and authors message.

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Fifth Grade - Character Study

• Standard 2 Read, write, listen and speak
  for literary response and expression
• Indicator Recognize the use of literary
  devices, such as simile, metaphor, and
  personification, to create meaning.
• Indicator Identify the ways in which characters
  change and develop within a story.

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Fifth Grade - Character Study

• ELA Competencies Across the Four Standards
• Express an opinion about themes in stories.
• Use personal experience and prior knowledge
• to interpret and respond to literary texts.
• Analyze an event by using role play as a
  strategy.

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Spotlight onELA Curriculum in Progress
Primary Mrs. Bostock/ Grade 1,
Vanderbilt Intermediate Mr. Smalley/ Grade 5,
Forest Park