2. District Goal # 1. Teaching and Learning: Create a personalized learning environment where students achieve rigorous standards through quality instruction. Key Actions: 1.4 Quality Instruction 1.4.2 By 2009, develop systematic process to build capacity to assist instructional employees’ understanding of cultural responsiveness. Content and Instructional Approaches: 6. Guided Language Acquisition Design

3.  “Guided Reading”  Homogeneously grouped  Usually 4-8 students  Focused reading  Tutor provides support for students

5. Reread if meaning is not clear—monitor their comprehension Infer meaning by “reading between the lines” Analyze structure of text, look for headings and captions that give clues to meaning Make predictions about what will happen next Relate what was read to previous content-area learning—look for similarities and differences Use prior knowledge Determine author’s purpose Summarize and take notes

6.  Helps students: › Monitor for meaning › Analyze text structure › Make predictions › Make connections › Use prior knowledge

7.  Materials needed: › Article or text book › Chart paper › Markers › Pencils › Sticky notes › SQ3R (optional)

8. Predictions: Questions: ClunkersLinks

9. Helps students: – Understand vocabulary – Visualize text – Activate prior knowledge – Have discussions How: – Before: sorting – During: display with vocabulary – After: sorting, matching to vocab

10.  Helps students: › Monitor their comprehension › Infer meaning › Make connections

11. What do you know about ___________? (Hypothesis) What do you want to know about_________?

12.  Helps students › Monitor their comprehension › Determine the author’s purpose › Summarize and take notes › Make connections › Infer meaning › Analyze structure of text

14. ELD Review 1. Point to 2. Yes or No 3. Either/or 4. Open-ended Bloom’s Taxonomy Level 1—Knowledge Level 2—Comprehension Level 3—Application Level 4—Analysis Level 5—Synthesis Level 6—Evaluation

15.  Helps students: › Monitor their comprehension › Infer meaning › Make connections  What is it? › Prompted writing › Similar to a dialectical journal

17.  Questions  Evaluations