Firstly, every child should be reading a book of his\/her own choosing independently. \u00a0This might include a reading continuum from easy to more challenging, depending on the students\u2019 interest and motivation. \u00a0As time allows, teachers should be conferring with individual students to check on their fluency and comprehension. <\/span><\/p>\n Secondly, I believe teachers should meet regularly with students in small, guided reading groups using a variety of leveled texts in order to grow their students in skills and fluency. \u00a0This is an opportunity for them to give instruction that is at their level so they aren\u2019t frustrated and can have repeated practice of skills.<\/span><\/p>\n Lastly, I believe teachers should provide opportunities for students to read high-quality fiction and nonfiction in frustration level texts through read alouds and shared readings, with scaffolded instruction. Close reading scaffolded instruction with complex texts involves chunking the texts into pieces that aren\u2019t overwhelming. This teaches students to annotate their thoughts while reading, re-reading, and discussing with their peers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To answer the opening question in Part One<\/a>\u2026 Yes, I now believe we <\/span>must <\/i><\/b>give students opportunities to read frustration texts, and if we don\u2019t we are missing another opportunity to grow them as readers. Does this mean my philosophy of how to teach reading has evolved again? You\u2019re darn right it does. \u00a0Just like I wouldn\u2019t want my physician treating me on only her knowledge 20 years ago, <\/span>we must evolve<\/b>. We must grow ourselves as teachers<\/span>, <\/span>\u00a0and <\/span>do our best to provide instruction to our students that meets both the research and what we inherently believe as teachers. What does this mean for the classroom teacher? \u00a0How do you keep a balance of literacy instruction in your teaching? What might this look like? Firstly, every child should be reading a book of his\/her own choosing independently. \u00a0This might include a reading continuum from easy to more challenging, depending on the students\u2019 interest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-close-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46384,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions\/46384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span><\/p>\nIf you want to know how I teach close reading, and also leave with a boat load of lessons already planned out for you, join me in the Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questioning Workshop<\/a> this fall!<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"