Your Support TeamLakshmi Valdes

Mirna Dunn, Norma Hernandez, Diane Kenyon and Tabatha Kirby

Green Kit

LLI KIT Lesson Overview

Green Kit

Green Kit Levels A-J

Review of Your Resources

At Risk Criteria

Who Would You Serve?First Grade Teachers- You will use the LLI lessons during Guided Reading as your core

instruction with your three or four lowest students.

■Any general education student that are not on level 4 (D) at this time of the school year will be served with the LLI kit.

■Any native english speaker in a dual language classroom that are not on a level 3 (C) at this time of year will be served with the LLI kit.

This will be consider as the integration of core instruction and intervention for RTi.

When do I serve them?Dual Language Teachers

✱ LLI kit Intervention will be provided on the English days only: LLI system supports the “Balanced Literacy” components in a deeper and differentiated level to increase students’ English reading skills.

✱ During the Spanish days, the interventions in Spanish will support the “Balanced Literacy” components in a deeper and differentiated level to increase students’ Spanish reading skills.

We will talk about the Spanish Intervention on November 18th

✱ Cross Linguistic Connections

✱ El sisteme de lectura

✱ Continuo de adquisicion de la lectoescritura

✱ New Spanish intervention! SIL- El Sistema de la Intervención de Lectura

The Lesson✱ LLI lessons include reading, writing, phonics and

word study, and the extensive use of oral language throughout.

✱ There are three types of lesson structures in the system:1. Getting started lesson

2. Odd-numbered lessons

3. Even number lessons

Getting Started LessonFirst Ten Lessons

✱ Rereading

✱ Phonics

✱ Reading new book with several levels of support

✱ Writing about reading

✱ Letter/Word Work

Let’s look at a getting started lesson

✱ Reread the Book (5 minutes)

✱ Phonics Word Study (5 minutes)

✱ Rhyming Picture Cards✱ Alphabet Linking Chart (Video)

Let’s look at a getting started lesson

✱ New Book (15 Minutes)✱ Let’s look at the instructions on page 21:

✱ Read to: Introduce the new Lapbook to the children, encouraging them to use information from the pictures, as well as their own experience, to talk about the text

✱ Read with: Here you find specific suggestions to scaffold the child’s use of the meaning, language, and visual information in print as you read the Lapbook with the children.

✱ Read by: in this section, you give the children the small book and use shared reading to have children read the book with you.

Let’s look at a getting started lesson

✱ Writing About Reading: 10 minutes

✱ You engage the students in composition sentences to write about the new book using interactive writing. During interactive writing share the pen with the children at selected points.

✱ Read page 22. With your partner talk about one or two strategies that you notice.

Let’s look at a getting started lesson

✱ Letter/Word Work: 5 minutes

✱ You guide children in some quick “hand on” word work. You will find a visual showing the materials used in the teaching. You will also find suggestions for teaching the children about letters and words.

Let’s look at a getting started lesson

✱ Assessing Reading and Writing Behaviors:

✱ This section provides suggestions for observational assessments across the lesson or additional assessments tips if you find they are needed.

There are two kinds of lessons:

✱ Odd -Numbered Lessons

✱ Even-Numbered Lessons

Odd-Numbered Lessons✱ The first day, an odd-numbered lesson- such as 11,13,15,17- is

for the introduction of a new instructional level book. The focus is on reading, discussion of meaning, and phonics and word work.

1. Rereading the book (5 minutes)

2. Phonics/Word Work (5 minutes)

3. New Book at the instructional level (15 minutes)

4. Letter/Word Work (5 minutes)

Even-Numbered Lessons✱ The second day is an even number lessons (such as 12,14,16,18,20) offers the

introduction of a new independent level book for the child.

✱ The focus in on writing to extend the meaning of books as well as to achieve a close look at print, letters, and sounds, phonics and word work, and on fluency.

1. Rereading the book and assessment (5 minutes)

2. Phonics/Word Work (5 minutes)

3. Writing About Reading (15 minutes)

4. New Book (two instructional levels below-read it and take home) (5 minutes)

5. Letter/Word Work--optional

Put on your Detective Hat

✱ With a partner, scan lesson 31 and 32 pages 185 to 196 from the Green System.

✱ Discuss the strategies used in each of the components of the lesson.

✱ Use the following organizer to write down your findings and be ready to share

LessonProfessional Development CD

Green Kit

• What is LLI and Who is it For? (7 minutes)

• Program Components Components of LLI (2 ½ minutes)

Let’s Get Started ✱ Look at your DRA/ Running Records Data

✱ Select the group of students that will be receiving LLI Kit interventions.

✱ Identify the lessons and books that you want to use