For example, it can be difficult for fifth-grade students to understand how the Age of Exploration led to the development of capitalism, so fifth graders analyze a supplemental text on the subject through the collaborative reading process.Īt the beginning of the week, K–5 students receive a handout with the collaborative reading text, along with a list of vocabulary words and questions that get students thinking critically about their materials. Informational texts are often supplemental texts related to the other subjects that students are studying.
In kindergarten, teachers choose nursery rhymes to focus on rhyming, as well as particular messages, like optimism-a core value of the school. videoĬhoosing a text: Collaborative reading texts-decided in advance by teacher teams for every six-week module-are either excerpts from fiction books or nonfiction texts that impart information.įiction passages highlight literary elements that may be challenging, like figurative language or themes.
Because the reading of a single, challenging text is scaffolded over five days, students gradually develop a rich, portable methodology for decoding difficult materials. The approach breaks down the reading process into five phases that emphasize repeated exposure to the text to drive deep comprehension: understanding the main idea, annotating the text, identifying key ideas and details, dissecting the author’s craft, and summarizing ( download a PDF of the five phases).
The approach, spearheaded by Alexa Sorden, the school’s founding principal and a former literacy coach, is a marriage of shared reading-students read a text together, guided by the teacher-and close reading, which has students work independently and in small groups to produce a critical analysis of a text.Ĭlasses in all grades in the pre-K to 5 school spend 15 to 20 minutes every day deconstructing an above-grade-level text of up to 150 words. Teaching Reading for Elementary LevelBy Dr.Collaborative reading is one of several strategies at Concourse Village Elementary School (CVES) that are meant to incorporate literacy into all aspects of the curriculum.
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