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English Language Arts Corner

What is Balanced Literacy?

At GIS, we use a Balanced Literacy approach in our reading instruction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shared Reading: teacher and children read enlarged text together

Modeled Reading (The Read-Aloud): teacher reads aloud selections to children

Guided Reading: teacher selects appropriate text for a small group of children who are similar in strengths and needs to provide instruction that targets specific reading strategies

Independent Reading: children read independently

Modeled and Shared Writing: teacher and children collaborate to generate text, but the teacher writes the text

Interactive Writing: using a "sharing pen" technique, teacher and children together create text in which children do some of the writing

Guided Writing: teachers works with individual or small groups of children who are similar in strengths and needs to provide instruction through mini-lessons

Independent Writing: children write independently

 

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Jan. 3
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