Select the right VOCABULARY words to focus on.
Are your words high leverage? Will students encounter them in multiple contexts and subjects?
What is your vocabulary routine? Do students have to adjust to a different activity each week or do you teach them a strong, predictable routine and change the words out each week?
Help students master the skill of orally understanding
Are your words high leverage? Will students encounter them in multiple contexts and subjects?
What is your vocabulary routine? Do students have to adjust to a different activity each week or do you teach them a strong, predictable routine and change the words out each week?
Weekly Comp. Routine
How can you link writing to what students are reading in small guided reading groups or your whole group anchor text/mini-lesson?
"Writing about text or talking about text … I used to consider that to be an impossible choice. Then I read the research on it. Conversation and discussion about what students read is certainly valuable, and, yet, if your goal is to raise reading achievement, writing has even greater value (not such a hard choice after all)."
Timothy Shanahan, 2016
http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/writing-response-reading
Digital Learning Tools can be used for...
reading ebooks
listening to reading
taking digital notes
creating products and presentations in response to what was read
A balanced instructional math block consists of several key components outlined in detail under Lesson Design. Simply having the components present and planning for them are not enough. Fidelity and delivery of these 5 lesson components are very important. Use the buttons below to learn more about each component.
Key Components Overview:
Teacher's knowledge of math content and strategy
Number Routines
CRA Investigations & Strategy Boards
Daily Problem Solving
Guided Math
Formative Assessment
Fraction Strips/Tiles
Algebra Tiles
Cathy Humphrey models how number talks in higher grades looks, feels, and sounds.
What do you notice about her model talk?
Effective Questioning