2011.12.10+Resources

Strategies & tools for Balanced Literacy across elementary grade levels - RESOURCES

 * 1) Links shared by #ElemChat organisers
 * 2) Links shared by #ElemChat participants
 * 3) Questions for directing discussion
 * 4) Other Links

Links shared by #ElemChat organisers

 * What is Balanced Literacy? []
 * Balanced Literacy Framework []
 * Components of Balanced Literacy []
 *  Instructional Strategies Online-Balanced Literacy []
 * Strategies for struggling readers: []
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 *  Range of instructional videos covering many aspects in a balanced literacy approach []
 *  Shared Reading []



Links shared by #ElemChat participants

 * Components of Balanced (.PDF) []
 * An Overview On Balanced Literacy []
 * Balanced Literacy Framework []
 * @WhatEdSaid Release Responsibily []
 * @Cybraryman1's Student Centred Classrooms []
 * Teaching Children Imagination and Creativity []
 * The Reading and Writing Project []
 * Cybraryman1's Literacy Page []
 * Balanced Literacies []
 * @Cybraryman1's How To Tell Time []
 * @Cybraryman1's Visual-Spatial Learners []
 * Strategies for Struggling Readers []
 * shelfstir []
 * Cybraryman1's Reading and Literacies Skills []
 * EUSD iRead []
 * Where Can I Find Scripts? [|http://www.tips-for-teachers.com/readers_theater.htm#Where%20Can%20I%20Find%20Scripts]
 * Balanced Literacy Diet on YouTube []
 * @Cybraryman1's Voicethread page: []
 * Apps for Grades 3 & 4 []
 * Guided Reading - []
 * Different Learning Disabilities in Children []
 * R5 in Your ClassroomA Guide to Differentiating Independent Reading and Developing Avid Readers []
 * Choice In Action []
 * A Balanced Literacy program video on YouTube [|http://www.youtube.com/user/ashleesimmons8?feature=watch#p/a/u/0/y0if5oI2ZwM]
 * 25 Super Sight Word Songs & Mini-Books:[| Fun Songs Set to Favorite Tunes With Companion Read & Write Mini-Books That Teach Essential Sight Words] -
 * If it works keep doing it, from @JoAnnJacobs68 []
 * @kbconnected - a balanced literacy unit []
 * Guided Reading from [|Workshop On ca]
 * Why Johnny Still Can't Read []
 * Word Study Activities from Words Their Way []
 * Reading Groups []
 * @cybraryman1 Reading/Learning Disabilities Resources [|http://www.cybraryman.com/reading.html#dyslexia]
 * 97 Page Book of Primary Grade Comprehension Lessons With an Emphasis on Multicultural Books: []
 * “Drowning in shallow water”: How can we deepen literacy instruction? []



Questions for directing discussion

 * General
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What does a Balanced Literacy approach mean? What evidence justifies the balanced literacy approach?
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is Balanced Literacy the same as Differentiated Learning in literacy?
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the essential components of a balanced literacy program?
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do we implement balanced literacy without it becoming too prescriptive?


 * Guided Reading
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does Guided Reading differ from the more traditional “round robin reading” group instruction?
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What kind of accountability & structure tools & strategies can ensure that students are maximizing the use of their class time while teacher works with small groups?
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fluency is more than sounding good when reading... enhances comprehension. Tools and strategies to help dysfluent kids?
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you select guided reading texts? In the lower grades? Upper grades?


 * Independent Reading
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does Independent Reading compare to Sustained Silent Reading? (SSR)
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the prerequisites for implementing Independent reading? (sufficient books, info about readers, routines...)
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you achieve a balance of structure and individual choice?
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Independent reading: does it matter what they read, or as long as they’re just reading...
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Independent reading - are there elements of the Readers Notebook that can be enhanced by the use of technology?


 * Read Aloud & Word Study
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How to incorporate “think aloud” routines into a traditional read aloud
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strategies & tools for word study in the lower grades? Upper grades?
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shared reading: useful in lower elementary? Appropriate for upper elementary?


 * Differentiation
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are effective strategies & tools for students with learning challenges that impact their reading development?


 * Beyond the Reading “Blocks”
 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you integrate literacy and literature into your whole curriculum?
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you teach students that math and science need a different approach when reading? (as in reading non-fiction as a genre? -Tania)
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What connections are made between reading and writing?



Other Links

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why Johnny Still Can't Read @InnovativeEdu <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If it works, keep doing it @JoAnnJacobs68 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Literacy…Just Literacy @gcouros <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Three free Balanced Literacy 1st grade Units @kbkonnected <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Balanced Literacy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guided Reading @kimyaris <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Going off the diet @kimyaris <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Audio explanation of Balanced Learning- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">focus is on reading only [|http://www.youtube.com/user/ashleesimmons8?feature=watch#p/a/u/0/y0if5oI2ZwM]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Styles - a convenient untruth -Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[]