“My students are always so engaged in reading the text and discussing what it might mean! I think it gives them good exposure to the kinds of complex texts and thinking skills they need to successfully build understanding from what they read.”
“Data showed that students in the Legible Path classrooms learned reading skills at a greater rate than the established norm.”
Overview:
Toolkit Overview, CCSS Inventories, Step-by-Step Games and Strategies
Toolkit Materials:
Phoneme Songs and Cards, Word Talk Cards and Games
Constellations of Instruction:
Decodable Shared Reading Texts, Lessons, Practice Activities, Handwriting, Assessments
Check out my new book!
This book introduces the Cycle of Responsibility (COR) model—the next step in the evolution of the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, which has been a conceptual mainstay of literacy education for decades. This new model shifts the current linear model to a cyclical process of multifaceted interactions that better reflect the complexities of early literacy, with an emphasis on constructing knowledge together in the context of vibrant learning communities. Focused on reading, writing, and word study in the primary grades, the COR is put into motion through five key motivators: challenge, creativity, collaboration, choice, and independence. Vignettes demonstrate how to enact the COR in classroom contexts. This practical resource is based on the authors’ shared research and teaching experiences in employing the COR to empower children as literacy learners and teachers as agents of impactful instruction.
Book Features:
Presents the Cycle of Responsibility model—a new, field-tested teaching and learning model.
Moves away from linear task completion to a cyclical collaborative process that reflects the energetic, complex, and creative world of classrooms.
Provides a teacher-centric approach that emphasizes shared construction of knowledge and the forces that motivate young learners.
Includes vignettes from the author’s first-grade classroom to illustrate ideas in practice, as well as a chapter on teacher professional learning.
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