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Good reader strategies - both model and instruction

Different genres

Assessment level, assessment of growth

Meeting students where they are at

Lifelong love of learning

Literacy block

The Big 5: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension

Lucy Calkins Readers and Writers Workshop

Strong connection between writing and on going assessment

All readers feel supported

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Multi dimensional

Targeted practice

Developmentally appropriate

Lifelong reading habits

Choice/Child control - ownership

Differentiated

Intentional reading for comprehension and learning.

Developmental of passion and desire to read

Teacher guidance and modeling

Fostering reading independence

Comprehension strategies

Battery of reading strategies (including decoding and also using clues from print)

Voracious readers lead to success in all other areas

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Reading at an independent/developmentally appropriate level

Periodic assessment to determine level and progress

We are experts with the development continuum of reading across ages and stages

Ample time for read alouds to model reading and a general love of literature.

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Next Steps?

Literacy or a reading philosophy

Be broad or grade level specific or both? Keep to 5 or 6 points.

What should we do to create a draft philosophy?

How to revise draft

Need to think of the how we do the philosophy.

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Overlapping with other content areas

Culturally inclusive

Not grade level specific

Specifics versus broad

Literacy philosophy versus reading philosophy

inclusion of word study and writing

Multiple intelligences

Emphasizes end goals

Complexity - introoduction to more challenging