Planning and Practice

Planning and Practice

1. Planning

   • time in the day
     • early in the school day
     • demonstrate reading and writing skills and strategies
     • spend 30-45 minutes
   • guidelines
     • open to the interest of the students
     • familiarity supports love of learning
       • songs
     • simple stories with large print (for beginning readers)
     • variety of genres and texts
   • general shared reading schedule
     • start with a song
     • poems and big books (reread newly intro books)
     • two or three familiar/requested/books that match lesson
     • end with picture trade book

2. Picture/story books

   • supportive texts for beginning readers
     • controlled amount of print on page
       • location/size of print
     • voice to print matching
     • introduce/reinforce conventions of writing
   • introducing a big book
     • spend at least 1/2 hour to explore book
     • predict before they see book, then look @ cover
     • predict throughout reading, and at the end
     • place post-its on words
   • story book plan
     • fill out elements of the story
   • learning letters and sounds and unfamiliar print words
     • shared reading helps students learn this

3. Informational books

   • Using a table of contents, index, and glossary
     • thumb through the book
     • read through table of contents and glossary
   • illustrations, photographs, and diagrams
     • explore dictionary skills
     • become models for reports and projects