LITERACY WORKGROUP

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Reads Widely

 

Provide regular opportunities, encouragement, and support for children to be read to, and to read widely in and out of school.

Engage children in materials drawn from a wide range of: literary genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry), forms of print (books, newspapers, magazines, documents, internet), topics, and diversity

RECOMMENDED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

 

INSTRUCTIONAL CONTRIBUTION

Pre-school
(ages 3-5, not yet in K)

Kindergarten- Grade1

 
 
Grades 2-3
 
  • Engage children in materials drawn from a wide range of topics, literary genres, forms of print, and
    diversity
 
  • Engage children in read-alouds, shared reading, and independent reading using:
     
    • literacy materials representing different genres: fiction (e.g., picture story books, folk and fairy tales); nonfiction (e.g., biographies, science, history books); and poetry (e.g., nursery rhymes, traditional and contemporary poems)
  • literacy materials representing different kinds of print (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, songs, etc.)

    literacy materials that represent diversity of: authors, people, culture, points of view

  • literacy materials that access a range of topics (e.g., science, history, numeracy, people, nature, art, humor, etc.)
  • Engage children in read-alouds, shared reading, and independent reading using:
     
    • literacy materials drawn from different genres: fiction (e.g., picture story books, folk and fairy tales); nonfiction (e.g., biographies, science, history books); and poetry (e.g., nursery rhymes, traditional and contemporary poems)
  • literacy materials drawn from different kinds of print (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, songs, drama, etc.)
 
    • literacy materials that represent diversity of: authors, people, culture, points of view
     
  • literacy materials that access a range of topics (e.g., science, history, numeracy, people, nature, art, humor, etc.)
  • Engage children in read-alouds, shared reading, and independent reading using:
  • literacy materials drawn from different genres: fiction (e.g., realistic, historical and science fiction, fantasy, folk tales); nonfiction (e.g., biographies, reference materials, primary source documents); and poetry (e.g., traditional and contemporary poems)
  • literacy materials drawn from different kinds of print (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, songs, drama, internet, etc.)
  • literacy materials that represent diversity of: authors, people, culture, points of view
  • literacy materials that access a range of topics (e.g., content areas, current events, politics, etc.)
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