Instructional Routine II
Electric Treatment Free! flickr photo by indiamos shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
Some of the most poular instructional routines have little science to back up their continued use. Others claim what these programs do can not be measured. Every seems to clmaor on about "brain-based" reading while some claim knowledge doesn't exist in the brain? Whi is right but more importantly what do you believe?
The Readings
Interactive Read-Alouds
Scholastic. What is Guided Reading? (Beyond a Commercial Cash Cow).Link
Just Wrong Leveling
Hoffman, J. V. (2017). What If “Just Right” Is Just Wrong? The Unintended Consequences of Leveling Readers. Reading Teacher, 71(3), 265–273. https://doi-org.scsu.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/trtr.1611
Knowledge over Skills
Lemov, D (2017).Why Knowledge Counts More Than SkillEducational Leadership
The Tasks
Read
Complete the readings.
Send a reply post to this page.
Write
Take a position what do you link does leveling book and balanced literacy/guided reading work?
Participate
We will have two Google documents. As a class we will write two position papers. Chopose a side you agree with and start contributing to the essay. Please use evidence to back up your claims.
Criteria
- Use evidence of the efficacy of intructional routines
- Contribute to a colloborative essay
Evidence
- Blog posts
- use of quoted analysis
- Evaluative comments to the teacher video