Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Improving Partnerships and Clubs
From Striving to Thriving: Book Match Relentlessly!
You've seen those students in your classroom - the ones who roam around looking for the "perfect book" to read. They pick up the ones that everyone else is reading, but you know they can't read them. Then they get frustrated because they just can't seem to find a good fit book. Anger sets in because they know they can't read and do what everyone else is doing. What do you do?
Now that we have gained trust with our students, it's time to teach them how to find and enjoy reading at a whole new level! Though this chapter seemed like a "no-brainer" for me, I realized I had been book matching all wrong. Find out the BEST ways to get the right books in your students' hands!
Teaching Reading in Small Groups Ch.4 Strategy Lessons
The official title of Chapter 4 is Guided Practice Toward Independence: Strategy Lessons for Comprehension, Print Work, and Fluency.
To start this chapter Jennifer Serravallo talks about learning to be a clown for a high school production. She chooses to be a plate spinning clown, which is a perfect way of thinking about teaching children in strategy groups (or really teaching in general if you think about it!) You have to get one plate spinning on its own before you can move on to the next. Then, you have to go back periodically and give the plate a bit of a spin to keep it moving independently. You teach (spinning originally), Assess (go to check to see if it is still spinning) and then reinforce (give that plate another little spin to keep it going). Hence, Strategy Lessons. These are the With (or coaching) part of teaching students independence. You've got to keep them spinning if you want them to stay up!
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