Description
Components of Balanced Literacy With Strategies for Pathways 2.0-Part B
By Dr. Sandy Doran
In this course, teachers will:
- Learn how to deliver the Word Work and Writer’s Workshop components of Balanced Literacy as a curricular methodology to underline good reading and writing instruction
- Discover the importance of setting up a sequential and systematic program for Word Work
- Learn multi-sensory practices for delivering phonetic instruction
- Watch a 20-minute video depicting a Writer’s Workshop in action as a model for creating their own Writer’s Workshop
- Learn techniques to build students’ fluency in writing
- Gain ideas for further study in becoming an effective balanced literacy teacher
- Have access to downloadable resources for:
- Word Work
- How spelling informs writing
- List of Decodables
- Root Words
- Sight Words
- Sound Words
- Writing Workshop
- At a glance skills
- Class writing at a glance process
- Creative Writing rubrics
- Expository Writing rubrics
- Personal Writing rubrics
- Peer Conference
- Sample Bulletin Board
- Self-editing checklist
- Student Profile
- Student Writing goals
- Writer Attitude Measure
- Writer’s Workshop Lesson Plan
- Putting it all Together
- Elements of a Balanced Literacy Program
- Recommended Books
- Multisensory Methods
- Word Work