What are your biggest take aways from these two days together?

What are 1-2 things you want to implement or refine in your teaching?

Reminding me of all of the possibilities with the read-alouds.

Using more parallel/pullout groups with my co-teacher.

Adding the vocabulary lessons to read alouds.

Selecting Read aloud texts according to students' reading proficiency.

Close reading: Choosing a lens to focus on and reread the text for clarity.

Text selection based on content, theme, or genre; targeting specific skills, fluency, and comprehension

Takeaways--sticking to a model, then shared practice, then independent practice routine. In direct instruction kids need to be engaged but don't need to necessarily contribute--they will have time for this in shared practice and independent practice. This means I can move faster and then have more time for coaching and small groups. I know this and somehow still forget it (!), so observing and practicing it has been useful.

Implement-- continuum of instruction, specifically considering text sets and levels of support

Refine = word study (planned and intentional rather than only by-the-way)