Professional Development and Education Consultant
A state set of educational standards for teaching and testing English and mathematics between kindergarten and 12th grade.
Happy Spring!
As we start to think about spring, we also need to consider the summer reading loss. Many student experience a loss with their reading skills during the summer months. Here is my article from Illinois Reading Council Journal, Spring 2017, Vol. 45 No.2, pp. 29-33. This article describes how a local volunteer group – Friends of Andersonville – developed a summer reading program with local business sponsorship.
Reading aloud to children builds a child’s vocabulary, background knowledge, and phonological awareness. Research has shown that reading to and with a student has these benefits, it’s also fun. So find some wonderful books and start reading to children as early possible. And continue the practice everyday for 10 to 15 minutes. Hart and Risley’s landmark study (1995) states that children who have been read to consistently will enter school with higher listening and speaking vocabularies. Read alouds between an adult/caretaker should and needs to happen especially during the summer months. Look for my article coming soon about “Beer for Books.”
Now there’s a way to blend balanced literacy and formative assessment. This book infuses research-based best practices of formative assessment through the lens of Common Core, with assessment support in these areas: read-alouds, guiding language into reading, language and literacy centers, and independent reading and writing. It also includes the “how” for novice and veteran K-8 teachers, administrators, and school literacy teams. Resources are included to help educators collect information and provide feedback to students.
Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent reading and writing, and classroom libraries.
http://www.capstonepub.com/classroom/products/new-balanced-literacy-school/
Within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) there is a powerful new lens and shift of awareness to language. Continue reading “4 Strategies for Implementing the CCSS in a Balanced Literacy Classroom”
