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Classroom Organisation: Literacy
Whole Class Focus
(10-15 minutes each for Reading and Writing
Reading
Reading To/Shared
Reading
(books, poems, charts) |
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Writing
Modelled/Shared Writing
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This element of the classroom program sets the scene for
small group work providing an initial teaching focus and
a specific teaching of the visual information of print — including
direct instruction in phonics, spelling and high frequency
words. This is teacher-directed time.
Small Group Teaching Focus (30-40 minutes each for
Reading and Writing)
Guided Reading
Learning
Centres in operation for the rest of the class |
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Guided
Writing
Independent writing
and activities to extend students' understandings
of grammar and spelling
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The small group teaching focus
allows teachers to operate two guided reading lessons and
either two guided writing lessons OR one guided writing
lesson and roving conferences in each one hour block.
Whole Class Focus: Sharing (10-15 minutes each for
Reading and Writing)
Concluding section for both reading and
writing sessions. Students reflect and articulate what
they have learnt — oral language. |
