1. GuidedReading By Kimberly Crossman

2. Early Literacy

3. Desire to Learn to Read & Write Building Blocks Kindergarten Program Print Concepts Language Concepts Letters & Sounds Phonemic Awareness Interesting Words

4. Desire To Learn To Read & Write Create an environment where all students see themselves becoming independent readers and writers through a variety of developmentally appropriate activities. Language ConceptsFoster the ability to read and write words through the use of morning messages, journal entries, sentence building activities, and environmental print. Print ConceptsTeach print concepts by modeling how to write and participating in shared reading and shared writing experiences. Phonemic AwarenessDevelop phonemic awareness, including the concept of rhyme, through activities with poetry, rhyming books, tongue twisters, and playing with language. Interesting WordsExtend the list of real-life words that students find personally relevant, such as favorite restaurant names, favorite cartoon characters, and family members. Letters & SoundsEncourage letter and sound recognition through activities with alphabet books, beginning and ending sounds, and shared writing of predictable charts.

5. Grade level 1-3 The Four Blocks

8. The goal is for each child to read independently and silently.

9. The emphasis is on reading increasingly challenging books over time.

10. Children are grouped and regrouped in a dynamic process that involves ongoing observation and assessment.

14. To develop background knowledge, meaning vocabulary, and oral language.

15. To teach children how to read all typed of literature.

16. To provide as much instructional-level reading as possible.

18. Decide to what parts of reading they want to respond

19. Opportunities are provided to share and respond to what is read

20. Teachers hold conferences with Children about their books.

22. To encourage children’s reading interests.

23. To provide instructional-level reading.

25. Children learn the patterns which allow them to decode and spell lots of words.

26. First ten minutes of the block are given to review the “Word Wall" words.

28. words.

29. To teach children how to decode and spell lots of other

31. and spelling patterns while reading and writing.

33. Fun ways to teach:

35. Guided Reading and Writing are longer blocks. These two blocks are intergraded with the content subjects of science, health, and social studies. Children who do not read and write fluently at third grade level need more instruction time in the four blocks framework. (Children who have not gotten appropriate Instruction, moved from school to school, or are just learning English. Until children learn to read and write fluently at third-grade level they need two hours of literacy instruction each day and equal attention to all four blocks. Grade level 4-8

37. Read Together

38. Guided Reading: The Four-blocks Way: The Four Blocks Literacy Model Book Series (Four Blocks Series) by Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy P. Hall, and James W. Cunningham: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc; 2000 http://www.four-blocks.com/kindergarten.htm Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children by Irene C. Fountas , Gay Su Pinnell; 1996