Join us for conversations that inspire, recognize, and encourage innovation and best practices in the education profession.
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Learning Goals
At the end of this session, you will better understand how to:
“You create a classroom that’s…attractive, that has lots of good books in it, has some nice bulletin boards or wall displays. It seems very simple. But in truth, it’s really not.”
Jeanne R. Paratore
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Fountas, I., and G. Pinnell. Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996.
Jamison, L. Early Literacy Instruction in Kindergarten. Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 2001.
Morrow, L. M. “Organizing and Managing a Language Arts Block.” In Strickland, D., and L. Morrow, eds. Beginning Reading and Writing, 83-98. New York, N.Y.: Teachers College Press, 2000.
Morrow, L. The Literacy Center: Contexts for Reading and Writing. York, Maine: Stenhouse, 1997.
Morrow, L., et al. “Characteristics of Exemplary First-Grade Literacy Instruction.” The Reading Teacher 52, no. 5 (1999): 462-476.
Morrow, L. M. “Designing the Classroom To Promote Literacy Development.” In Strickland, D., and L. Morrow, eds. Emerging Literacy: Young Children Learn To Read and Write, 121-134. Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 1989.
Pressley, M., et al. Learning To Read: Lessons From Exemplary First-Grade Classrooms. New York, N.Y.: The Guilford Press, 2001.
Clay, M. The Early Detection of Reading Difficulties (3d ed.). Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1985.
Pinnell, G. S., et al. “Comparing Instructional Models of the Literacy Education of High-Risk First Graders.” Reading Research Quarterly 29 (1994): 8-39.
Classrooms shown in the video session are from Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices.
Assessment-Driven Instruction with Hildi Perez
Becoming Readers and Writers with Sheila Owen
Building Oral Language with Cindy Wilson
Connecting Skills to Text with Charmon Evans
Staying on Topic with Martha Duran-Contreras
Students Making Choices with Becky Pursley
Writer’s Journal with John Sinnett