Best Practice: Reading and Writing
Brooke Schluchter EDU 560
Common Core State Standards for Reading
Key Ideas and Details
- Read closely, Cite specific textual evidence
- Determine ideas/themes, summarize key details
- Analyze individuals/events/ideas development
Craft and Structure
- Interpret words/phrases
- Analyze structure of text
- Assess Point of View
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Integrate and evaluate content through diverse media
- Delineate and evaluate argument and claims
- analyze and compare two or more texts
Range of Reading and Level Text Complexity
- Read and comprehend complex texts independently
"Theres nothing like sharing a good book with friends."
Teach
- Reading as thinking
- Phonics
- Reading strategies
- Before, during, and After Reading
- Authentic Activities
Model
- Interaction
- Reading
- Reading as tool
- Talking opportunities
- Reading assessments
Provide
- Reading opportunities
- Opportunities for success
- Choices
- Writing experiences
Qualities of Best Practice in Teaching Writing
- All children can and should write
- Help students find real purposes to write and real audiences to reach
- Help students exercise choice, take ownership, and assume responsibility
- Provide opportunities for students to experience the complete writing process
- Help students get started
- Guide students as they draft and revise
- Show students how writing is created
- Lead students to learn the craft of writing
- Confer with individual students on their writing
- Teach grammar and mechanics in the context of actual writing
- Provide a classroom context of shared learning
- Support growth in writing English language learners
- Use writing to support learning throughout the curriculum