Organizing for Assessment shows how the featured teachers make time for daily, ongoing assessment in their busy schedules and organize and analyzethe data they collect.
Oral Reading Records demonstrates effective techniques for collecting formal oral reading records as proposed in Active Young Readers Assessment Resource: Grades Primary-3.
Using What We Know demonstrates how the featured teachers use the data they collect through ongoing reading assessment to plan next steps for each student, for groups, and for an entire class.
Shared Reading demonstrates how expert teachers provide a scaffold for student learning by extending modelled reading to include increasing input and initiative from students.
Read Aloud/ Think Aloud explores how classroom teachers who frequently read aloud to students and demonstrate reading strategies as they go, contribute to early literacy development.
Mini-lessons explains how the featured teachers choose topics for the "time to teach " segment of their reading workshops and demonstrates their thoughtful deployment of the mini-lesson technique to focus and support students’ independent reading activity.
Small Group Instruction focuses on the role, in the development of student readers, of teacher-facilitated, small-group activity during class independent reading time.
