https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01 Within this Padlet, you will find the link to the resource. After reading the article, watching the video, or listening to the podcast, please respond to the reflection questions within one post and comment on at least one colleague's reflection. Note: The strategies shared throughout these resources focus on research-based best practices of effective literacy instruction. Keep District 54 systems and structures in mind while engaging in these resources. en-us 2021-10-07 22:12:04 UTC 2024-06-03 08:17:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cc.png kristinamacnider https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1801017462 As we rebound from pandemic teaching, how can we preserve the integrity of guided reading to ensure we are increasing student agency and responsibility? Read this excerpt from "Who's Doing the Work?" to learn more about next generation guided reading.

]]> 2021-10-07 22:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1801017462 kristinamacnider https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1801017463

What did you think about as you read this excerpt from "Who's Doing the Work"?

What are you still wondering about this topic? 

]]> 2021-10-07 22:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1801017463 https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1836814364 As I read this article, I was thinking about how I can make my guided reading groups less teacher directed. Since I teach kindergarten, I try to help the students too much at times. I like how the article states that the work of figuring out the text or unknown words fall on the students, and the teacher's job is to see up close how the students recognize and work through those challenges. This is sometimes difficult for me, but I am working on it during my groups. I also like the types of questioning the article provides like "What can you try?" or "How can you check?". I also want to focus my teaching points on what my students were able to figure out and helping them celebrate the strategies they used rather than focusing on the points that were more problematic. One thing I was still wondering about was that this is more challenging for my approaching students. Is it okay to be more teacher directed with your approaching students and then scaffold it back when they are becoming a beginning reader?]]> 2021-10-22 17:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1836814364 nataliekim1 https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1837122432 I was wondering how small groups will look like for EC children]]> 2021-10-22 19:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1837122432 https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1839931006 Hi everyone! I really enjoy reading articles on guided reading, and modern research and science of how to be the best guided reading teacher for my students. Teaching Literacy is a true passion of mine. I feel that now I have a strong understanding as to what guided reading is, should look like, and the structure. However, I found during reading that I am doing most of the work. One example of when I was reading and it had the quote of Teacher Centered- Turn to page 8 and look at the picture. I constantly am doing this to show a different word. However, I really liked the strategy of having the kids learn that this is a a great strategy, and I want them to begin doing this independently. 
1. I thought about these ideas above while reading. I also thought about how different guided reading is for me and my PLC this year. We usually have a very small amount of students that do not know their letters. Majority of our students have been ready to be readers as they walked in. With this group, we had 3 readers total in the whole grade. We are still doing heavy work on concepts of print, letter recognition, and word wall words. It has been tough navigating this new way of thinking. 
2. I am still wondering how to have students be independent with guided reading. Even with going over the pattern the students do not retain this. They cannot handle me reading with just one student. They do not have the skills to sound out the word. They have been looking at the picture, however, there are still 4 other words on the page. I am hoping to gain more strategies from the texts and other teachers on how to go about this, and how to start using these strategies with Kinders! ]]> 2021-10-24 21:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sd54/d6ps3ahk5vobzw01/wish/1839931006