Supporting a Comprehensive Reading Curriculum
1. What read to and shared reading activities am I currently doing?
What skills am I currently teaching through these methods?
How did I select these skills?
How do these skills relate to the EALRs and the Reading Continuum?
What resources am I using to teach these skills?
What observations can I make about my students’ performance from reviewing their responses?
How am I engaging the students in self-reflection?
What do I envision as my next steps?
2. What guided reading and independent reading opportunities am I providing in my classroom?
How have I organized my classroom for these?
What are some examples of topics my students select?
What are my observations and reading assessments telling me about their strengths and weaknesses?
As a result of these observations and assessments, what skill lessons have I or will I teach? What resources have I or will I use?
How am I teaching goal setting?
What is my greatest challenge in implementing guided and independent reading?
3. How am I teaching the skills and strategies this year?
On which skills and strategies have I focused? (See “Teach Me To Read” and Reading Continuum EALR #1.)
Why did I select these?
What are my plans for teaching the other skills and strategies?
What resources am I using to teach the skills and strategies?
What progress do I see my students making?
How am I involving my students in self-reflection related to their work with the strategies?
4. What work am I doing related to comprehension?
What comprehension strategies am I currently teaching? (See “Teach Me To Read” and Reading Continuum EALR #2.
How am I teaching these strategies in my class?
What resources am I using?
As I reflect on reading activities my class has recently done, what comprehension skills were being stressed?
How did I evaluate their work?
What scoring criteria did I use? How did I apply this criteria?
What am I discovering about my students’ ability to apply various thinking skills to their reading?
How am I engaging my students in self-reflection on their comprehension?
5. What am I doing this year with reading for various purposes? (See Reading Continuum EALR #3.)
What genre have I introduced to my students so far?
What resources do I have available to teach kids to read for different purposes?
What strategies am I teaching to support their understanding of different genre?
How might I do this? What did I discover about my students ability to read for different purposes?
How do I engage the students in a balance of both discovery and reading favorite genre, and trying a variety of new genre?
6. How is my reading program supporting the students in acquiring the district outcomes? Thinking Skills? Thinking Behaviors? How could I link these to my reading instruction?
7. What would support me most in developing a balanced reading program?