Are you balanced? Day 1 training for Balanced Literacy

1. Are You Balanced?
Stacy Shultz
sshultz26@gmail.com

2. Welcome
• Agenda
– Overview
– Word Study
– Shared Reading
– Independent Reading
– Writer’s Workshop
– RTI

3. Let’s Get Started!
• How balanced do you feel when it comes
to Balance Literacy?
• Rate Yourself!
– Expert
– Average
– Am I supposed to be Balanced?

4. The 5 components
• Word Study
• Shared Reading
• Independent Reading
• Writer’s Workshop
• Guided Reading & Workstations

5. The 5 components
• Which component is your favorite to
teach?
• Which component is your least favorite to
teach?
• Turn and Talk

6. ~Let’s Get Creative~

7. What’s In A Name

8. Ideas for Chrysanthemum

9. Ideas for Chrysanthemum

10. Ideas for Chrysanthemum

11. Let’s Graph!

12. Chrysanthemum

13. Word Study
• As a group come up with a teacher
friendly definition.

14. Stacy’s definition
• The hands-on study of letters, letter
sounds, and their relationships to help
students decode words and build their
vocabulary.
• Activities should be varied and hands on
for different types of learners.

15. Word Study
• Making Words
• Word Walls
• Word Families
• 26 letters in 26 days
• Secret Stories
• Phonics
• 5 common syllables
• Spiral
• Sequential
• Rhyming
• Phonological
Awareness

16. Resources I Suggest
• Month by Month Phonics
• Systematic Sequential Phonics
• Rainbow Arcs or Alphabet Strips
• Letter/Sound Cards
• Fountas & Pinnell Words their Way
• IFD
• Others….

17. Word Study
• At your tables compile a list of your
favorite word study activities that are
whole group instruction.

18. Word Study
• What are some of your favorite word
study workstations you have your
students do?

19. Dyslexic Students/Tier 3
• Suggestions for students and teachers:
– Spiral and review daily.
– Common language
– Refer back to the 5 common syllable types
whenever possible.
– Visit with their RTI teacher.

21. Shared Reading
• At your tables discuss what Shared
Reading means in your classroom.

22. Shared Reading
• Whole group
• Everyone has access to the text.
• Can be on a rug.
• Lap time
• On grade level TEKS
• A Story to teach and enjoy!

23. Other Points to Remember!
• Read Aloud Everyday
• Share Your Thinking
• Make it Interactive
• Build Vocabulary

24. Some of my new “book loves”

27. Let’s Learn about CPQ’s

32. Figure 19

33. Figure 19

34. Our Shared Reading Today

35. CPQ
• What events let you know that Steve
cared for his family?
• What is my CPQ focus?

36. Activity
• Draw your favorite part of the story. Use
as many details as possible.

37. Next Step
• Sequential Order: This is a TEK for all.
• Let’s put ourselves in sequential order
without talking!

38. Now it’s Your Turn
• Using one of my many books, as a table
create a CPQ for your story.

39. Share Time!

40. Informational Text
• Preview the text. Do a KWL, then…
• Who?
• What?
• When?
• Where?
• Why?

41. Let’s try one…

42. Exit for the Day
• 1: New Idea I liked
• 1: Thing I would like to know more about.
• 1: Thing I hope we talk about tomorrow.