BALANCED READING

BALANCED READING

1. LITERACY RICH ENVIRONMENT

   • labels in the room help support emergent readers
   • Co-created text provides meaningful displays of writing
   • menus maps instructions recipes
     • Providing everyday text helps develop an understanding and recognition of the importance of print in the world around us

2. SHARED READING

   • A good place to model strategies and have students practice them
   • Gives oral practice for public sharing and speaking and students can learn from each other

3. GUIDED READING

   • Guided reading provides teacher with ample assessment data on student's use of strategies and can pinpoint needs
   • Small groups
   • gives opportunity for students to practice reading strategies and gives students a voice in a comfortable space

4. READ ALOUDS

   • Allows students to hear what fluent reading sounds like
     • Helps students hear proper sentence structure and rich vocabulary
   • Gives students the opportunity to get swept up in storytelling

5. INDEPENDENT READING

   • Provides opportunity for students to practice learned strategies and
   • Helps develop the habit of reading and promotes reading as an important aspect of daily life

6. STUDENT MATERIALS

   • high interest books at various levels
   • a means of recording thoughts on stories read
   • variety of comfortable seating choices
   • CD player and /or computer to provide listening to reading opportunities
   • Specialized equipment to support all readers
   • Stories written by students

7. PROFESSIONAL MATERIALS

   • Guided reading levelled books
   • Sound programs like CAFE and The Daily Five

8. PHYSICAL SPACE

   • Student focused
   • Co-created
   • comfortable and inviting

9. CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE

   • comfortable seating
   • room for collaboration
   • quiet spaces for independent reading

10. TIME/STRUCTURE

    • Engrained into each day
    • reading opportunities engrained in all subjects
    • Make time for reading daily and often

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