The Literacy Collaborative Program contains seven areas or parts that are taught everyday. These parts are: Read Aloud, Word Study, Small Group, Shared Reading, Centers, and Community Writing
Please look below to read about each of these areas.
Word Study: Whole Group
Main Focus is on the letters of the alphabet. A new letter is taught every week. Poems and songs are used to help learn about the letters. We use hands on learning so the students can learn in detail about our letters (recognize it, how to write it, the sound(s), etc.)
Another main focus would be student's names. This includes knowing how to write their name and knowing the letters in their name.
Students knowing the alphabet and the sounds the letters make.
Phonics is another huge part of word study. In phonics, they will learn rhyming (cat, bat, sat), beginning sounds, ending sounds, word families, syllables (how many parts in a word ex: sand-wich), color words (red, green, blue), and vowels (a, e, i, o, u).
Read Aloud: Whole Group
Read fictional (Fake) and Informational (True) books to the children and have discussions about these books.
Focus on the students comprehending the story.
Focus on the text features of a book. These include the parts of a book. (Front Cover, Back Cover, Spine, what the author does, what the illustrator does, etc.)
Students learning how to make predictions in a book. (Guessing what might happen next.)
Shared Reading: Whole Group
This is where I model techniques and strategies for reading. I do this by using a Big Book or Big Poem, which is big enough for the whole class to see and read.
The four five main strategies that I focus on in shared reading are reading left to right, top to bottom, voice to print match (saying the words that are there), and reading the sight words.
What is taught in shared reading is crucial for when they start reading on their own because these strategies taught will carry over when they are reading independently.
Community Writing: Whole Group
This is where the students and the teacher write pieces together on big sheets of paper. Students actually get to come up and write on the paper. This is where the students learn how to write and learn what writing looks like.
Narrative (stories), opinion, and informational pieces are written together as a class.
The pen is shared as I model and guide the writing process.
Centers: Independent
This is where the students get to move from center to center (stations) on their own to complete activities that are related to what has been taught in literacy and Math. This is very important because it teaches the students how to be independent.
Small Groups
This is very important because this is where the students can sit 1:1 with me to work on the skills being taught in large group (Name writing, letter/number recognition and writing, rhyming, beginning sounds, etc.)