Literacy

Indian River uses the literacy collaborative as a guide for reading and writing instruction. Each day, students will participate in a variety of activities where good reading and writing skills are modeled for students, practiced as a class, and then tried out by students independently. Through this, students will advance as readers and writers at their own pace and will continually receive instruction to meet their individual needs as learners.

Interactive Read Aloud

Each day, a story is read aloud to students. The teacher will model what good reading looks and sound like. Throughout the story, students will be active participants and will in engage in conversation about the story.

Shared Reading

In shared reading, the class reads an enlarged text together as a group. This may be a big book, poem, part of a book, or something we wrote together as a class. Students work on reading rate and fluency and get an opportunity to practice skills that good readers use.

Guided Reading

Students are in guided reading groups based on their reading level. Groups meet 2-3 times a week for guided reading instruction with the teacher at their level. Through this, students learn how books work and what good readers do while reading. Over time, these books go into student's browsing bags and are used for independent reading.

Independent Reading

Students use skills they have learned to read books on their own. In second grade, we work on reading independently inside our heads and begin to move into beginning chapter books.

Community Writing

In community writing, the class works together to create a piece of writing. Sometimes students come up and help write and sometimes I do the writing. Through this, students learn to form paragraphs and learn the mechanics of writing. They also learn about the craft of writing and how to put their ideas on paper. Students brainstorm everything that is written and work as a class to decide what they want to say and how they want to word it. Through the year, we will make books, posters, letters, charts, graphs, and many others forms of writing interactively as a class.

Writers Workshop

In writers workshop, a short mini-lesson is presented on either the mechanics or craft of writing. These are skills students need to be good writers. Students are then given time to work on their writing pieces independently while the teacher conferences and helps individual students with their writing. At the end of each writing period, 2-3 students are invited to share what they worked on that day as a writer.

Independent Writing

Students use the skills learned in community writing as well as writers workshop in their own independent writing on various topics.

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