Brian Cambournes Conditions of Learning

Immersion
-Word walls
-Published work displayed on classroom walls
-Incoporating literacy throughout day (e.g., through Morning Meeting)

Demonstration
-Reading and writing mini-lessons
-Small group instruction
-Reading and writing conferences
-Word study instruction
-Teacher explaining different genres within reading cue

Engagement
-Shared reading
-Interactive read aloud
-Interactive writing

Expectations
-Setting specific goals for each reader and writer
-Laying out specific units of study to cover within a year
-Providing students with checklists for their finished work

Responsibility
-Giving students opportunity to choose their own dot book topics
-Allowing students to assist in literacy goal setting
-Students choosing topics for Reading Across Genres unit

Approximations
-Focusing on the process, not necessarily the product
-Encouraging work that may not be perfect, but is working towards a specific skill or
strategy (e.g., Dada cup)
-Emphasizing learning from mistakes

Practice/Employment
-Independent Reading / Writing
-Shared Reading
-Interactice Writing

Feedback/Response
-Publishing parties,
-Utilizing student poetry as poems of the week,
-Providing feedback during conferences and small group instruction