Features: community, positive and welcoming mood, promotes curiosity, focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Definition: Classroom surroundings and instruction purposefully designed to emphasize reading in a variety of authentic ways.
Examples: physical design for cozy reading places, large and accessible classroom library, spotlight authors, opportunities to share reading, home to school connectionstudents bring in materials to share, display of co-created reading strategy anchor charts, guest readers
Non-examples: print rich but not user friendly, read alouds with no interaction, book displays without student input or creation Instructional Strategies Student Choice
Definition: Empowering students by giving choice to demonstrate understanding of learning targets as well as providing simple choices involving workspaces and reading materials.
Examples: academic choice boards, choice seating for read to self time, choice books, different reading assessment modes
Non-examples: rigid instruction, same task for a ll Motivation
Features: excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, intrinsic vs. extrinsic
Definition: A desire to participate in learning activities and lessons.
Examples: tap into student interests, acknowledge and praise effort, maintain high expectations, show you believe in students, opportunities for small successes, goal setting, teamwork, anticipatory set
Non-examples: no room for mistakes when learning, focus on product not process, bribes Comprehension
Features: understanding, clarity, meaning, aha moments
Definition: Understanding and making meaning of text through the act of reading
Examples: answering text dependent questions and deeper thinking questions accurately, Buzz about a Book, Walk and Talk, to share, Facial expressions reveal understanding, Real reading = text + thinking
Non-examples: fluent reading with no understanding, fake reading Fluency
Features: Appropriate rate (words per minutes), automatic, effortless, flexible correction of miscues
Definition: The ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
Examples: repeated reading, reciprocal teaching, chunking text, guided reading setting, I read, we read, you read model, listen to fluent models
Non-examples: word by word decoding, conversational fluency Vocabulary
Features: content specific, repeated exposure, cross curricular word recognition, understanding, dependent on schema
Definition: A collection of words understood and used by a child
Examples: teacher modeling usage, science/ ss content embedded in reading instruction, investigate complex topics to increase word knowledge, visuals for support
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