1. Jennifer Evans
Assistant Director ELA
St. Clair County RESA
Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org
http://www.protopage.com/evans.jennifer

2. Agenda
Discussion of
Homework / Review
of Session 1
Flexible
Instructional Groups
– Your Small Group
Profile
Reading Process
Text to Reader
Match
Leveled Text
Lesson Plans
Homework

3. “Effective classroom
teachers are the only
absolutely essential
element of an effective
school.”
- Allington & Cunningham, 1997

4. Literacy
development is
dependent upon effective
instruction, access to
quality reading material
and the time engaged in
reading.

5. Research
 A study
completed by Anderson
et.al. illustrates that an avid
reader in fifth grade reading 90
minutes per day scored in the
98th percentile on standardized
tests.

6. Classroom Libraries
Research tells us that classroom libraries are utilized more
than school or public libraries.
Richard Allington suggests a primary classroom teacher
needs to have a minimum of 1200 different titles in a
classroom library and intermediate classrooms should
have a minimum of 750 titles.
Students must have access to books (at their level and
their choice) in order to practice the skills and strategies
being taught.

7. Review
Discussion of Homework: Article –
Classroom Reading Assessments
(chapter 1) by Frank Serafini
m.socrative.com
Join room 980994
Type response to question:
What did you find was the most
valuable piece of information for
you in the chapter?

8. Take 5 to
review
Reading
Workshop
Elements

9. Small Group Profile
Name
Strengths
Skill Needed
Data

10. Small Group Profile
Name
Reading
Level
Interests
Strengths
Strategies QSI
Needed
Level

11. Rick’s Reading Workshop
Overview

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/
reading-workshop-overview
(5:22)

12. Reading Process

Envelope Activity:
 Sort the sentence strips under the following
headings:
○ Emergent Reader Characteristics
○ Early Reader Characteristics
○ Transitional Reader Characteristics
○ Fluent Reader Characteristics

13. Reading Development
Stage
Name
The Learner
Birth to grade 1
Emergent Literacy
Phonological Awareness –
gains control of oral language;
relies heavily on pictures in
text; pretends to read;
recognizes rhyme
Beginning grade 1
Decoding
Phonics – grows aware of
sound/symbol relationships;
focuses on printed symbols;
Grade 1 to Grade 3
Confirmation and
Fluency
Develops fluency in reading;
recognizes patterns in words;
checks for meaning;
Grade 4 to 8
Learning the New
(Single Viewpoint)
Uses reading as a tool for
learning; applies reading
strategies; expands vocabulary;
Secondary
Multiple Viewpoints
Analyzes what is read; reacts
critically to texts; deals with
layers of facts and concepts
Higher Education
A Worldview
Develops a well-rounded view
of the world through reading

15. Chips In
Thinking about the reading
process, discuss with your
table how you help your
students make a correct text
to reader match.

16. Text to Reader Match

Features to consider when selecting a
book:
○ Message and content (appeal to children)
○ Genre (text structure)
○ Language structure
(nature, complexity, tense, frequency, length
of phrases, sentence patterns, length of
book, etc.)
○ Word structures (familiar words, complex
words, decodability)
○ Presentation and Layout
(amount, placement, clarity of text)

18. Criteria for Determining Text Difficulty
Emergent
and Early
Readers
Transitional
and Fluent
Readers

19. How to choose a good fit book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtHG
h0PVHo (1:40) Animated with Powtoon to show class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_2G
YGjnAnA (2:35) The sisters Mini-lesson

20. Good Fit Books

http://www.thedailycafe.com/members/2
28.cfm (management of book boxes 2:00)

21. Managing book boxes

http://www.thedailycafe.com/members/5
98.cfm (4 min.) That book is too hard for you

22. Just Right Books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocOS
RUBi218 (3:20) Video for parents

23. “Just Right” Books
Independent Level
96%- 100% Accuracy
with good
comprehension and
fluency
“Just Right”
Instructional Level
90-95% Accuracy
Students can read with
teacher support and
instruction
Frustration Level
< 90% Accuracy
“Too Hard”

25. Leveled Text
Fountas and Pinnell’s
leveling list
Text
Complexity
by
Scholastic
Level It
iPad app
($4.00)
Procedure to Level
Books (Project STARS)

26. Leveling Practice

Using the texts at your table, practice
leveling them.

29. Reading Level Correlation
Charts
Colored copy
Word Fluency Added
Leveled chart to use
with Rit level (session 1)

30. Mini-lessons for Independent
Reading

31. Lesson Plans

33. Recap
1. Plan your
small groups
using data
Understand the
reading process
3. Create a
good literacy
environment
2. Be sure to
have the correct
text to reader
match
5. Plan Guided
Reading Lesson
Plans

34. Homework:
Read Assessing
Adolescents’
Motivation to Read
and be prepared to
discuss.
Next time you come
bring a lesson plan
for a skill group