Flip or Flop: Guided Reading & Read Aloud Makeover

1. Flip or Flop: Guided Reading & Read Aloud Makeover Laura Gagacki, ELL Teacher Shabana Shah, First Grade Teacher Sugarland Elementary School, LCPS November 2018

2. Goals We will learn different practices to improve instruction in • Read Alouds • Guided Reading • Comprehension

3. Read Aloud Makeover What does your read aloud instruction look like? Journal Turn & Talk Share

4. Flip: Read Aloud Traditional What if…?

5. Process for Planning • First I choose a comprehension focus. • Pick a book that your students can read independently (day 1). • Choose 2 more titles you can use for the remainder of the week that focus on the teaching point (day 2-3 traditional read aloud). • Integrate writing (day 4). • Demonstrate comprehension using technology (day 5).

6. How is this model better than the traditional model? • Kids read the book • We discuss • I intro comprehension skill • Spend rest of week in traditional model

7. Reflection Reflect on a book you use for read aloud. How can you give it a makeover?

8. Guided Reading Makeover • What makes a successful guided reading lesson? • What are the biggest hurdles with guided reading? Journal Turn & Talk Share

9. Flip: Guided Reading Traditional What if…?

10. Shared Reading Chicken Little

11. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Shared Reading Examples Stone Soup

12. Benefits of a Shared Reading for a Guided Reading Book • Pre-teach vocabulary • Practice reading strategies • Oral language • Fluency practice

13. Look at the Animals Look at the grasshopper. It is green. It can hide. Look at the fish. It can hide, too. Look at the snail. It has a shell. Look at the tortoise. It has a shell, too. Look at the polar bear. It has fur. Look at the leopard. It has spots. Look at the bird. It has wings. Look at the bee. It has wings, too. ✔ ✔ ✔ Sight Words Vocabulary Repeated Phrases

14. Example Look! The grasshopper is green. Look! The fish can hide. Look! The snail and tortoise have a shell. Look! The polar bear has fur. Look! The leopard has spots. Look! The bird and the bee have wings.

15. Reflection 1 How could you give your guided reading a makeover? How could you integrate shared reading into your guided reading model?

16. Comprehension Makeover How do you assess your students reading comprehension? Journal Turn & Talk Share

17. Adams A reader needs to know the meaning of 95% of words in order to comprehend a text. (Adams, 2011)

18. Flip: Retelling Key Vocabulary Repeating Phrases

19. Technology and Writing Technology & Writing

20. Student Work

21. Example Slide

22. Reflection 2 How could you give your comprehension assessments a makeover? What changes will you make?

23. Connect With Us! https://twitter.com/ms_shahs_class shabana.shah@lcps.org laura.gagacki@lcps.org

24. Credits Reading A-Z Reading A to Z Benchmark Education Benchmark Adams, M.J. (2011). Advancing our students’ language and literacy: The challenge of complex texts. American Educator, 34(4), 3-12.

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