Creating a Balanced Literacy Classroom K-3 (LIFT K3 I & II)
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Participants will learn how to observe and assess early literacy behaviors and plan for instruction
within the context of a balanced-literacy classroom, helping students grow into strong, independent,
strategic readers and writers. This two-semester course is organized around Reading First´s Three-Tier Model of Instruction. Participants will learn how to provide good first teaching for all children in the classroom (Tier 1) and how to differentiate instruction for small groups and individuals (Tier 2).
Classroom management techniques will be woven throughout.
In the first semester, participants will learn how children acquire and extend their knowledge of
reading and will assess students5 strengths using the Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP),
which includes taking and analyzing Running Records. The second semester will focus on how
children become writers. Participants will organize and operate a productive, well-managed, daily writers workshop in their classrooms. They will lean how to introduce, model, and teach daily mini lessons that inspire even the youngest students to become prolific writers; how to use mentor texts and their own writing as examples of various types of writing; and how to talk about writing in specific yet informal language to which children respond. A number of texts and resources will be used. The
instructor, Lori Watrich, currently teaches in Haslett, and has taught at the early elementary level for 16 years. Prerequisites: Participants must be working with one or more groups of children. New teachers should have completed the Teacher Reading Academy.
AUDIENCE: K-3 classroom, special education and Title I teachers and literacy specialists
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