Hello! If you are just now joining me for this little series on Balanced Literacy, you can get caught up on the other posts here:
Post 1- Overveiw
Post 2- Shared Reading & Interactive Read Alouds with Accountable Talk
Post 3- Shared and Interactive Writing
So…how do I schedule all of this?
So, in essence, that’s what I do! I think about the current reading and writing units that I am in and I consider if my students need to brush up on certain things. Since they always do, I am able to find places in my schedule to address those needs naturally. Most of the time, the students just think we are doing a big book or writing a story together. They don’t always realize that they are taking in a lot of things that I am saying as I think aloud. I have found that this is what I need in order to get these skills to transfer into my independent reading and writing time.
Thank you so much for reading along! Happy New School Year!