Systematic instruction of relationships, including practice Opportunities for students to manipulate letters to change words and spelling patterns Learn decoding strategies Few classrooms show evidence of Most classrooms show evidence In all classrooms, students have: learning of decoding strategies of learning decoding strategies Practice decoding and identifying words Practice that involve word families Practice blending and words “chunking” Introductions to irregular Practice fluency Students practice reading Students practice reading Students practice daily reading decodable stories less than 2 decodable stories 2-4 times a decodable stories with 90% of times a week week words known to the reader. Students have access to a wide Students have time for Students have access to a wide Read and comprehend a wide assortment of books and texts variety of non-fiction and fiction reading and have wide variety of non-fiction and fiction books and other written materials access to a variety of non-fiction books and other written or have daily time for self-selected and fiction books and other materials. They have daily time reading or books can be taken written materials or materials can for self-selected reading. Books home. be taken home can be taken home. Develop and comprehend new Teachers use 0-1 of the Teachers use 2 of the vocabulary Teachers provide vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary techniques listed techniques listed instruction through: Explicit instruction during read aloud and content area instruction (i.e. science and social studies) Teaching about context clues Tools (i.e. word bank) and positive reinforcement as students use new words comprehension strategies Teachers provide comprehension instruction through:
Systematic instruction of relationships, including practice Opportunities for students to manipulate letters to change words and spelling patterns Learn decoding strategies Few classrooms show evidence of learning of decoding strategies Most classrooms show evidence of learning decoding strategies In all classrooms, students have: Practice decoding and identifying words Practice that involve word families Practice blending and “chunking” words Introductions to irregular Practice fluency Students practice reading decodable stories less than 2 times a week Students practice reading decodable stories 2-4 times a week Students practice daily reading decodable stories with 90% of words known to the reader. Read and comprehend a wide assortment of books and texts Students have access to a wide variety of non-fiction and fiction books and other written materials or have daily time for self-selected reading or books can be taken home. Students have time for reading and have wide access to a variety of non-fiction and fiction books and other written materials or materials can be taken home Students have access to a wide variety of non-fiction and fiction books and other written materials. They have daily time for self-selected reading. Books can be taken home. Develop and comprehend new vocabulary Teachers use 0-1 of the vocabulary techniques listed Teachers use 2 of the vocabulary techniques listed Teachers provide vocabulary instruction through: Explicit instruction during read aloud and content area instruction (i.e. science and social studies) Teaching about context clues Tools (i.e. word bank) and positive reinforcement as students use new words comprehension strategies Teachers provide comprehension instruction through:
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