You activate students' knowledge, set purposes, and make predictions.
What is Prereading? (Stage 1)
100
Students get ideas on paper not worrying about mechanical correctness.
What is Drafting? (Stage 2)
100
Students talk about the books that they read and celebrate their accomplishments.
What is Sharing?
100
Students celebrate final projects.
What is Sharing?
100
Teachers allow students to be a part of the reading experience as they build background knowledge and vocabulary and model fluent reading and reading strategies.
What is Reading Aloud to Students?
200
Students participate in grand conversations and write in reading logs.
What is Responding? (Stage 3)
200
Students choose a topic, consider purpose, and organize ideas
What is Prewriting? (Stage 1)
200
Students spend time with self-selected reading. Teachers model reading and conference with students.
What is Reading?
200
Students learn procedures, writer's craft, and writing strategies and skills.
What is a minilesson?
200
Students read together to collaborate and assist each other
What is Buddy/Paired Reading?
300
Students construct projects, reflect on reading experiences read related texts
What is Applying? (Stage 5)
300
Students share final copy with intended audience.
What is Publishing? (Stage 5)
300
Students are taught procedures, comprehension strategies and text factors.
What is Teaching Minilessons?
300
Students work at their own pace to compose stories, revise, edit, and publish. Teachers conference with students.
What is Writing?
300
Teacher reads aloud as students read along. Fluent reading and reading strategies are modeled.
What is Shared Reading?
400
Students apply reading strategies and skills and may be involved with guided, shared or independent activities
What is Reading? (Stage 2)
400
Students proofread rough draft and correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization and conference with the teacher
What is Editing? (Stage 4)
400
Students write about what books they are reading. Students make immersion, involvement and literary connections.
What is Responding?
400
Students jot down images, impressions, dialogue, and experiences they can build on for writing projects.
What is a writer's notebook?
400
Teacher supports students in a small group as they apply reading strategies and skills. They provide scaffolding to the students as they read.
What is Guided Reading?
500
Students learn new vocabulary, participate in mini lessons, examine genre, text features, and writer's craft
What is Exploring? (Stage 4)
500
Students reread and make changes to their writing based on peers' feedback and conferences with teachers.
What is Revising? (Stage 3)
500
Student listen to books as a class and respond to it together.