Week 5 - Reading 1

1. Week 5
Reading 1
2015-16

2. Gradual Release of Responsibility
Modelled Shared Guided Independent
READING and WRITING
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching Teaching
Learning
Learning &
Learning Practising Practising
& & &
Learning Practising Performing Performing
2

4. Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction:
Reading
• Everyone at your table is responsible for
reading the following excerpts from this
resource:
• pp. 25-27 Reading Comprehension Strategies
• Pp. 60-72 Instructional Approaches
• There will be a Kahoot quiz to check on your
comprehension

6. Comprehension Strategies
• Activating prior knowledge
• Making connections: text-to-self; text-to-text;
text-to-world
• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Drawing inferences
• Evaluating

7. Applying Comprehension Strategies
• Select a short text from among the resources
offered.
• At your table identify one comprehension
strategy that could be reinforced through your
chosen text
• Design specific questions that you would ask
students to address this strategy

11. Guided Reading Webcast
http://www.curriculum.org/k-
12/en/videos/guided-reading-2