Literacy Strategies to
Scaffold Learning
• Melissa Ashley
• Karla Casteen
Today’s Session:
• Discuss The Five Essential Building Blocks of
Reading Instruction
– ELA Common Core K-5
– Reading 3D and DIBELS Next
• Locate “Literacy Strategies to Scaffold Learning” on
NC Falcon
• Explore the Continuum of Learning for each Building
Block
• Make-and-Take
• Discuss teaching vocabulary with non-fiction text
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-- A. Draper and G. Moeller
Email
• Melissa Ashley
– melissa.ashley@dpi.nc.gov
• Karla Casteen
– karla.casteen@dpi.nc.gov