Balanced Literacy

Explaining the benefits of a #BalancedLiteracy Program 📖 (tweets by @MsLowen_Ed)

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Take a look at my references! Happy teaching 🍅📏📖

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For further reading, check out Lisa Donahue’s book, “100 minutes: Make every minute count in the literacy block” (2012).

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It also aids in creating high-achieving students (Pressley, et al., 2002)! #balancedliteracy #reading #writing #engagedstudents 🤓

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#balancedliteracy is meant to aid in propelling "your students forward as readers and writers" (Teach for America, 2011, p. 141). 🚁

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Still aren’t sure how to structure your #literacy block? Follow this guide put out by @ONeducation

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The amazing thing about #modernlearning is that is also = equity in accessibility! Some students prefer and excel at typing over writing!

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Here are my students engaging in Independent Writing! 👨🏿‍💻👩🏻‍💻

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This lesson involved taking the same sentence that I had used before (in the Write Aloud lesson), but this (cont) https://t.co/2uN1ABM6Xy

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Here is an example of a Shared/Interactive Writing lesson! 📝

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In this lesson, I chose a sentence out of this small group’s Book Club book, and “imitated” it. By “imitate” (cont) https://t.co/tInl9MSk6K

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Here is an example of a Write Aloud/Modeled Writing lesson!✏️ Every week we have new Spotlight Sentences! 🔦

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Now that you're on the way to becoming a #balancedliteracy expert, let's take a quick look at the Writing components! 📝

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Here are my Gr.6's during their Independent Reading time. 📕📗 Encouraging reading also supports writing development! #nothingbeatsagoodbook

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As you can see from the images, the teacher is working to promote reading strategies (as she points to (cont) https://t.co/eftSYy42zV

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...Let's listen to them read! 👂🏼

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Here is an example of a Guided Reading lesson from the same Gr.1 room. #encouragingindependence 🙋🏻🙋🏽🙋🏼🙋🏻‍♂️

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Each morning, the teacher has a morning message ready for the grades 1’s to do as a Shared reading. As Chant (cont) https://t.co/iH375I19r9

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Here is an example of a Shared/Interactive Reading lesson that I recently observed in a Gr.1 room! 🗣👥

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During this mini-lesson, I started by reading a pre-determined excerpt from a novel to the whole group. This (cont) https://t.co/w413NjA8AR

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Here is an example of a Read Aloud/Modeled Reading that I did for a grade 6 class (an excerpt of "Heart of a Champion" by Ellen Schwartz).