Empowering Teachers Web RResource:

Practical Solutions for Everyday Practical Solutions for Everyday Instruction

Kimberly RussellRandee Winterbottom

Florida Center for Reading ResearchFlorida Center for Reading ResearchJuly 1, 2008

Session ObjectivesSession Objectives

Participants will…pLearn to access and navigate the Empowering Teachers Web Resource

Become familiar with the content of the E i T h b REmpowering Teachers web Resource

Be able to use the Empowering TeachersBe able to use the Empowering Teachers Web Resource to enhance instructional practicesp

Empowering Teachers Web Resource: Practical Solutions for Everyday Instruction WorksheetSample QuestionAs a principal, you recently hired three new Kindergarten teachers, two have alternative certification and one is a first year teacher. All of these teachers would benefit from more information about the components of reading. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you refer them to begin conversations to build their capacity?

Essentials for Reading

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Components of Reading

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1. Since you are the reading coach, an experienced first grade teacher asked you for support with small group instruction. The teacher saidasked you for support with small group instruction. The teacher said she is trying to pinpoint where she should begin instruction in phonics with one of her small groups. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you direct her to better identify where she should begin i t ti ?instruction?

Questions to First Grade Questions to GuideQuestions to Guide Instruction

First Grade Questions to Guide Phonics Instruction

2. As a principal, you have done numerous walkthroughs of a particular p p , y g pthird grade classroom. Each time you have walked through, the teacher is with a small group and he is providing implicit instruction that is lacking a clear explanation of the targeted skill. You have noticed that two of the students in the group consistently lack understanding of the skills that hestudents in the group consistently lack understanding of the skills that he is trying to teach. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you direct this teacher to learn more about instruction?

Elements of

Effective

Next Next Explicit Instruction

Instruction

3. You are the reading coach and a second grade team of teachers wants you to help them find an organizational tool to keep track of the phonicsyou to help them find an organizational tool to keep track of the phonics skills they are teaching. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you refer these teachers to find this type of tool?

Instructional PlanningGuides and Student

Second Grade Phonics Instructional Planning GuidesGuides and Student

Progress Recordsg

4. A kindergarten teacher asks you, her reading coach, to assist her with locating vocabulary instruction for teaching new vocabulary with a small group. The teacher already has a student center activity to use following strong initial instruction. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you direct this teacher to obtain a lesson for explicit instruction tocould you direct this teacher to obtain a lesson for explicit instruction to teach new vocabulary?

Instructional Routines

Kindergarten and First Grade

KindergartenNew Vocabulary

Questions / Concerns?Q