Focus in K

Focus in 1

Focus in 2

Guided
Reading

-practice
strategies and
skills taught in
whole group
instruction using
leveled texts and
groups

-practice
strategies and
skills taught in
whole group
instruction using
leveled texts and
groups

-practice
strategies and
skills taught in
whole group
instruction
using leveled
texts and
groups

Whole Group
Instruction

-phonological
awareness

-phonics

-phonics

-decoding
strategies

-comprehension
strategies

-comprehension
strategies

-begin to model
literature
circles
(beginning of
year-see below)

-phonemic
awareness
-phonics
-concepts of print

Literature
Circles

-begin to model
literature circles
(mid year-see
below)
-modeling
language used to
discuss text from
day 1 (in guided
reading and
whole group
instruction)
-modeling lit.

-continuing to
model language
used to discuss
text from day 1
(in guided
reading and
whole group
instruction)

Focus in
3-4

circles 1 day a
week starting
midyear
-end of the year
(May-June): read
book as whole
group- break up
into small groups
and discuss textdiscussion
structure has
been modeled
from mid-year up
until now
*teacher chooses
or allows whole
group to suggest
the book to
discuss

-model
literature
circles as whole
group first few
weeks of school
-begin
conducting
literature
circles 1 day a
week at the
end of Oct/Nov.