Professional Development and Education Consultant
These are Dr. Becky’s published works.
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.
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”
