Explore the components of effective reading instruction and which activities are most effective and efficient for developing the five components of reading
What's at stake?
Where's the opportunity?
Where's the biggest skill gap for struggling readers?
Critical importance of being deliberate about aligning instructional tasks to specific learning objectives across the 5 Es.
Activity: Complete this Google Form with 10 instructional scenarios for you to read and then select which of the 5Es you think is the PRIMARY learning objective the teacher has in mind for students.
Discuss scenarios and group responses
Activity Materials
Google Form: Which of the 5Es?
Step 1: Watch Mini Lesson: Structured Literacy Instruction
Structured literacy instruction is based on the neuroscience research which has shown that skilled readers process all of the letters in words when they read them and that they read connected text very quickly.
Structured literacy instruction is:
Systematic
Explicit
Sequential
Cumulative
To Mastery
Activity Materials
Mini Lesson: Structured Literacy Instruction - Screencast
Shift in thinking
Structured Literacy Instruction --> to refine our initial foundational reading student experience prototype and keep in mind as we consider various instructional elements to prioritize in the student experience.