4 BLOCKS LITERACY PROGRAM
K/2U Term 2, 2015
EMERGENT
Shared Reading
Shared reading:
 allows the teacher to model reading strategies
 provides students with demonstration of how reading
works.
 demonstrates an awareness of text
 develops a sense of the story or content
 teaches students strategies for decoding unknown
words and for the construction meaning from text
 develops fluency, phrasing and reading strategies
 increases comprehension
 allows students to see themselves as readers in a non
threatening environment.
Predictable Chart Writing (Rosie)
Sentence starter using "go" and "look"
1. Write the sentence
2. Examine one sentence
3. Reassemble the sentence
4. Be the sentence
5. Make the book
Follow up lessons
1. Walk through the book discussing pictures,
making guesses etc
2. Put the CROWD in the CAR
CAR: Comment ... Answer...Respond
CROWD: Completion, Recall, Open-Ended, “Wh” question,
Distance
3. Labelling characters and places using beginning
sounds
4. Sentence matching
5. Other "j" words
6. What Jigarees can do
Writing Instruction- flip chart/proloquo2go
1. Choose a picture
2. Choose a letter
3. Write a story
4. Share the story
Alphabet & Phonological Awareness
1. Alphabet songs; alphabet chart; alphabet box;
2. iPad- Starfall; Eggy alphabet
3. Clicker phonics - listening activities
4. Erase a letter
5. Making alphabet books
6. Sunshine online
7. Rhyme 8. Tongue twister "Igglepiggle is itchy"
Independent Writing
1. PCW - I can see .. (Rosie) + read the sentence, be the
sentence
2. Free choice writing
3. Free choice writing
4. Free choice writing
5. Scribbling on the computer
6. Book review
Letter/word study
go
Paul
look
Prudence
Elijah
Henry
Chase
Brooklyn
1. Put the word in a sentence
2. Chant the word
3. Make the word
4. Swat the word
5. Words on the bus
6. Write the word
Independent Reading
Powerpoint books
Tar Heel Reader
Classroom books
Alphabet books
Levelled readers
iPad books
Luca