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• Organizing and Planning for Instruction

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Announcements

• Discussion of new assignment.
• Share on LiveText tonight.
• Revisit Lit. Circle Strategies from last week.

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Today

• Presentation of Professional Literature Circle
  Groups.
• Working with Families as Partners in Their
  Childs Learning
• Organizing, Planning, and Creating an Environment
  for Learning
• Creating a classroom map
• Creating a classroom schedule

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Professional Literature Circles

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Vocabulary
• Fluency
• Comprehension

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Working with Families

• Get into groups of 5.
• Discuss the two articles in your packet.
• Questions to consider in your discussions
• Why is parent/family involvement so important to
  our literacy work in the classroom?
• What are some ideas for promoting family
  involvement in our classrooms?
• Be ready to share your groups ideas with the
  class. List at least 4 ideas.

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More about family involvement

• Read aloud The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie
  Flournoy
• How would you use this book in your classroom?

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Your Literacy Program

• What is an ideal literacy classroom?
• What role does the teacher play in creating an
  ideal literacy classroom?
• Who is responsible for maintaining this ideal
  environment (Utopia) in a classroom?
• How does this happen? Be specific as you write
  your Literacy Program Description.

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Designing Organizing the Classroom Underlying
Theory

• All children can learn to read and write.
• Children will learn best in an environment that
  is print rich.
• Learning is a social process.
• Learning is a constructive process.

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Designing Organizing the Classroom Underlying
Theory, cont.

• 5. An organized environment supports learning.
• 6. Children learn best when they are responsible
  for their own learning.
• 7. Powerful demonstrations are an important part
  of the learning process.

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So . . .

• Determine what is important to you in a
  classroom. What will be going on in this space?
• Decide what physical elements you will include in
  your layout. Arrange the furniture with the
  activities of the class in mind.
• Create a map of a classroom that is organized in
  a way that meets the needs of all learners.

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Creating an Environment for Learning

• Before school starts think about
• What will you include in your classroom design?
  What is important to you in your classroom?
• Room Arrangement
• How will you arrange the work spaces?
• Where will supplies be for easy access?
• What types of spaces do you want in your
  classroom
• open spaces for large group meetings
• quiet spaces for individual work
• places for small group interactions
• Tables/desks/chairs/centers
• Is your room organized in a way that meets the
  needs of all learners?

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Create a classroom map

• In your small discussion group, create a
  classroom map, including elements included in
  slide above.

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Classroom Schedule

• Determine your goals for teaching literacy.
• What is important to teach?
• Decide how to teach it.
• Create an ideal schedule for fitting these topics
  into the school day.

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Your schedule

• Be sure to provide time in the day for extended
  periods so students can think, learn, respond to
  the topics of study.
• Combine Language Arts/Reading time frames with
  content areas to extend time.
• Make sure to enhance learning in all of the sign
  systems (language, music, art, math, movement).

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A Sample 4th Grade Schedule

• A.M.
• 840-850 Opening activities
• 845-915 Word Study Centers - spelling, grammar,
  vocabulary
• 915-1015 Writing Workshop - focused writing,
  independent writing, poetry, journals,
  mini-lessons, conferences (work on focus,
  organization, support, effective language use)
• 1015-1100 Math
• 1100-1145 Social Studies/Library/Computer
  Lab/P.E.
• 1145-1235 Lunch
• P.M.
• 1235-200 Reading Workshop - independent reading
  response journals, shared reading read aloud,
  guided reading, literature study, mini-lessons,
  conferences (work on comprehension, decoding,
  vocabulary, fluency)
• 200-245 Science/Social Studies/Art
• 245-315 Projects/Class Meetings/Group
  Work/Wrap-Up

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Class Rules

• How can we utilize our students ideas to create
  the class rules or behaviors that promote
  positive interactions with one another?
• Help your students write positive statements.
• Have students create a web of their ideas so they
  consider behaviors in all areas of the classroom.

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Class Meeting

• Beginning of Day share joys, sorrows, current
  events, things important to them
• Work with students listening and speaking
  skills.
• Model strategies to encourage and promote
  conversations, not just comments, i.e. Who has
  something to add to what Josh just said?

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Class Meeting (continued)

• End of the Day discuss compliments, questions,
  learnings
• Students can reflect in their learning log before
  they come to the meeting.
• Bring issues to meeting that may have caused
  problems or anomalies throughout the day.
  (social and academic) Can we resolve any?

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Next time..

• Literacy Learners and Developmental Patterns
• Understanding Teaching Critical Readers (6th,
  7th, 8th)
• Be prepared in your Professional Literature
  Circle Groups to present informally about your
  findings.

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Homework

• BTR Ch 11, 12
• PKT Ivey Broaddus (middle school readers)
• Read info about Mini-Lesson Presentations and
  come with questions.