What do you need to more effectively implement balanced literacy
in your classroom?
- More ideas for easy centers
- Visit other classrooms
- Chat with teachers on our campus
- Ideas for independent activities
- Make and take sessions
- Ideas for helping struggling readers
- Ideas on how to implement these strategies into math and science content
- Time to organize, to reflect, to implement, to plan, to create centers,
to plan with teachers, within the “pay day”
- Fewer benchmark assessments to allow time for implementing all of the
components
- A more balanced approach to education: if something is added, something
must be taken away. (Time constraints)
- Fewer interruptions (intercom, pull outs)
- Help with scheduling all of the components (management)
- More books (big books, guided reading books, leveled books for independent
reading)
- Teacher resources
- Supplies: pocket chart, stand, large tablets, containers …
- Sets of books that are classified as controlled readers
- Understanding
that we cannot do everything