Putting It All Together Using Pocket Charts & Big Books Sandra Ball & Lillah Martin Nov. 27/13
Agenda welcome shared reading big books & song books sharing pocket charts shared writing
Learners want to be engaged interacting connecting using oral language
Every Child Every day reads something they choose reads accurately Richard Allington reads something they understand writes something personally meaningful talks to peers about reading & writing listens to a fluent adult read aloud
Shared Reading is read-along reading whole group activity material seen by all modeling relating familiar to unknown
Even the most generous lap can not hold 20 children, so big books were created.
Shared Reading Benefits experiencing the joy of reading drawing attention to the details of the text providing systematic & explicit instruction children see themselves as readers from Read, Write, Play,Learn by Lori Rog
Texts for Shared Reading should have. 3 R s rhythm, repetition & rhyme clear, readable print w/ ample space between words and lines rich, memorable language strong satisfying story line w/ predictable structure bright, vigorous illustrations that support the text from Read, Write, Play, Learn Lori Rog
Shared Reading Texts big books /poems weather charts calendar charts drawings with captions diagrams with labels maps songs rhymes chants and other enlarged texts on chart paper dictated, interactive and shared writing individual or class books children s murals Ann McGill Franzen
Big Books consolidate emerging reading strategies reread independently word study develop vocabulary informal assessment
BB Putting it All Together Building Meaning Through Engaging Reading and Writing pocket chart word wall brainstorming independent writing class book take-offs Rosie s Walk
What books are familiar? Where could you find them? How could you use them? Shared reading experiences capitalize on powerful learning possibilities where every student takes something unique away.
The books must delight the children and be worth returning to again and again. Brenda Parkes
Pocket Charts develop early literacy skills explore language in playful ways engage students in meaningful text related experiences
Mary Wore Her Red Dress
Who Stole the Cookies
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
I Wonder
I Like Bugs
Brown Bear Brown Bear
The Wheels on the Bus
Rain on the
At School
The Mouse in Our House The giraffe in the jungle... The snowman in the yard...
Materials to have on hand postie notes wikki stix reading wands reading fingers reading frames special reading glasses clip boards
If you can say it, you can write it. If you can write it, you can read it.
Shared Writing is writing students can read *want to revisit over and over *provides for connections to prior knowledge teacher writing for the students *writing from talk, turning thoughts into print *modeling thinking process *transitional, building from simple to complex interactive writing when pen is shared *explicit teaching moments
Pocket Chart Ideas store p/c strips on shower ring /with loose pieces in baggie also attached shower rings clip onto towel rack mounted inside teacher cupboard velcro back side of pocket chart across top and attach velcro onto classroom wall at kid height move chart when finished with class lesson so kids can play with it put names on craft sticks for quick play with charts keep basket of reading wands near pocket chart transfer pocket chart poem, song, pattern into poetry book use poetry book for read to self, read to someone, home read
Big Book Ideas double sided on construction add one inch strip to edge of books before laminating that becomes hinge edge for ease of turning have parent helpers colour for you store big books leaning against wall
Class Made Book Ideas have kids design covers use mix of media for illustrations use kids photos if book is pattern or take off from real book photocopy cover and add it inside front of the class book use duotangs for smaller sized books make books about everything use for home reading plan for class set nice gift for child at end of year
I want to make reading something to love not just something to learn Kathy Collins
Thank you Sandra & Lillah