Planning with Into Reading

Planning Tips

Principal strategies in literacy planning with Into Reading

• Modify readings, assignments, and assessments

• Anticipate skill development for independent work and efficient learning

• Strategic use of visuals, gestures, and routines

• Frontloading of vocabulary, background knowledge, and grammar

Images from Grade 5, Module 6

Helpful steps before planning Week 1:

1. Log on to Ed and find the module you will be teaching. Underneath the module, click on View Resources.

2. Filter the search results for Audience to Teacher. Click Apply.

3. Filter the search results for Component to find:

• Teaching Pal

• Teacher's Guide

• Editable Weekly Plans

4. Make sure you have a binder or folder with the following (printed out is probably best):

• Scope and Sequence - K-6, foundational skills, grammar

• HMH Priority Standards Pathways for K-6 Language Arts

Next steps

5. Zoom out. Always get to know the module before planning specifics. Review the Teacher's Guide.

• What is the module about?

• How are the skills organized? (Literacy Skills/Build Knowledge and Language - embedded)

• What do students have to do at the end of the module?

• What hints do I see for my students who need more support?

• How can the Instructional Routines (Under All Resources) and Notice and Note give your students an edge? Could you add more scaffolding to these strategies?

  • • • Also check out the resource Tabletop Minilessons to find even more routines, strategies, and anchor charts.

• What can you use from the English Learner Support and Supporting All Learners sidebars? What does this section make you anticipate from your learners?

6. Zoom in. Open the Navigating the Teaching Pal.

• How is the material presented to students?

• What do the Notes suggest for teachers? How might you modify your presentation of the concepts? (See graphic below.) Might there be some texts at a different grade level you will try?

7. Zoom in further. Open the Editable Weekly Plans you downloaded onto your computer. Pro tip: Upload this file to Google and make it a Google doc. Share it with your teammates, admin., and specialists, so everyone can comment on it as you plan. Great evaluation artifact!

• What's in grey? (Will you get to it?)

• If there are multiple readings in one week/lesson, might you expand one of those readings to last longer and be full of great learning? Could you abridge a reading so that students can use their skills in one paragraph? What additional vocabulary will need to be frontloaded?

• Will you incorporate writing as suggested? Can you add speaking, video, speech-to-text, and conversation to the writing process to break it up for English Learners or lower-level readers so they can feel successful?

8. Zoom all the way in. What does Week 1 look like? Explore these resources in Ed:

• Literacy Centers (for this module)

• Weekly Practice Bundles (use for independent practice, Teacher Table work, centers, grades)

• Display and Engage (what can you add to these slides?)

• Review Differentiation in Small Groups to guide your planning.