Balanced Literacy Instruction



Grade Two Balanced Literacy Instruction

WSFCS 2008-2009

|Shared/Teacher Directed Reading Fiction Text |Guided Reading/Small Flexible Groups |Working with Words |

|Purpose: explicitly teach reading comprehension |Purpose: teach students to apply decoding and |Purpose: teach word recognition skills, word|

|skills and strategies that are aligned to the |comprehension skills while reading a variety of text |building strategies, new vocabulary words |

|NCSCOS and enable students to interpret, analyze,|at their instructional level; students also work on | |

|and evaluate text |fluency to assist their comprehension of text | |

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|Examples: inference, compare/contrast, main | | |

|idea/details, sequencing, generalizations, | | |

|literary elements, character analysis, point of | | |

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|Time Management: 25-35 minutes daily |Time Management: 20-25 minutes per group |Time Management: 15-20 minutes daily |

|Level: grade level/whole group instruction |Level: instructional reading level/small flexible |Level: grade level/whole group |

| |groups | |

|Materials: Reading Assignments flip chart |Materials: leveled text |Materials: spelling/phonics, high frequency |

|(Comprehension Strategies) grade level basal, | |words, word walls, word patterns, content |

|age/grade appropriate class sets of literature, | |words |

|poetry, drama | | |

|Shared/Teacher Directed Non-Fiction Text | |Teacher Read-Aloud |

| |Self-Selected Reading | |

|Purpose: explicitly teach comprehension skills |Purpose: teach students to read for personal |Purpose: model the characteristics of good |

|strategies and text structures using expository |enjoyment, develop background knowledge, and increase|readers and share an enjoyment for reading, |

|materials |vocabulary skills (includes conferencing with |increase vocabulary skills and develop |

| |students about their reading) |background knowledge |

|Example: content area materials | | |

|Time Management: 25-35 minutes daily |Time Management: 15-20 minutes daily |Time Management: 15-20 minutes daily |

|Level: grade level/whole group instruction |Level: Independent reading level for each student |Level: listening comprehension of group (on |

| | |or above instructional reading level) |

|Materials: Reading Assignments flip chart, |Materials: narrative and expository materials |Materials: quality literature and |

|expository materials including science, social |including books, magazines, newspapers |informational text |

|studies, consumer information | | |

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Writing Instruction: Teach students the writing process, the connection between reading and writing, and writing skills through dictation, modeled and independent writing for on-demand writing prompts using a variety of genres

Time Management: 60 minutes daily

(30 minutes direct instruction and 30 minutes integrated throughout the curriculum daily)

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