| Working Group 4: | |||
| How do teachers of multiage or combined classes adapt Four Blocks? | |||
| Educate!
Educate! Educate! Parents, Administration, Colleagues |
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Guided Reading | ||
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Comprehension! |
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Before- and after-reading activities are the same because so many skills overlap |
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During-reading activities vary greatly | ||
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Make good use of book clubs to integrate curriculum | ||
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Self-Selected Reading | ||
| Management! | |||
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Use phonic phones to reduce volume in class | ||
| • | Organize books | ||
| use dots: hard, harder,
hardest |
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| • | Conference using more generic forms or anecdotal records | ||
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Lots of Mini Lessons on picking the right book | ||
| "Swim, Shark Bait,
Beach" |
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Writing | ||
| Mini-Lessons | |||
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Upper grade levels focused process writing is good exposure for younger students | ||
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Coordinate goals | ||
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Skill related group conferences | ||
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Sharing is a must for modeling and motivation | ||
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Working with Words | ||
| Overlap | |||
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Reinforce and enrichment is not know to the students | ||
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Combine the Word Wall list and use it as a guide | ||
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Word activities are so multi leveled we don't need to adapt | ||
| Success! Success! Success! | |||
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