Do you have a A-list of celebrity educators? You know, the people whose names have earned your respect throughout your classroom tenure because you know that they know what they're talking about. Their words are tried and true.
Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas are definitely on my A-list! Ever since I read Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Students in college (1998!) and Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 a couple of years later, my teaching philosophy and literacy practices have been unmistakably shaped by these two women.
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You can view a few sample pages of the prompting guide at this link as well as read one dual language teacher's review of this product on her blog.
Tell me you are not excited about this!!! But wait, there's more! Pinnell and Fountas also provide the Continuo de adquisición de la lectoescritura Grados PreK-2: Guía para la enseñanza. This is the Spanish adaptation of The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PK-2: A Guide to Teaching. The first half of the book includes an explanation of the many instructional components that interact in the classroom to build literacy. The second half of the book walks through each of the F&P guided reading levels A-N and describes the behaviors and understanding to notice, teach, and support. An especially useful part of this section is the gray "Planning for Word Work after Guided Reading" box that includes many specific examples for explicitly addressing Spanish word analysis. You can see a sample of this resource at this link.
Now, because I love my ITDL readers SO much, I have contacted some of my favorite providers of bilingual resources to ask them to consider donating a resource to one of you. My wonderful friends at Heinemann have offered to give one lucky ITDL both of the resources described above. Want to win? Just follow the Rafflecopter directions below (giveaway is limited to US residents only).
a Rafflecopter giveaway Just in case you aren't the lucky winner of these resources, you can download eBooks of the English and Spanish prompting guides for the iPad here for just $9.99 each.
Exciting news to wake up to!!! I have borrowed the prompting guide before and loved it. However I have never seen the Spanish edition of The Continuum of Literacy in Spanish!!! I love professional books in Spanish! I am so excited that they offer the items for the iPad for such a steal! Thanks for having so many wonderful ideas to share. I have purchased most of the back to school books that you suggested and I am still alive to talk about it. Luckily my husband is pretty understanding;) I have read most of them already and am so excited to share them with my class and other teachers!!!! I
ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge in small group reading is remembering to praise and teach one or two things that is going to move them in the right direction. Sometimes because of the time crunch, I get distracted and try to teach more than the children can possibly process. I also sometimes have a teaching point and then do not have time for the students to practice the new information before sending them off. Ugh, I am going to be a much better planner and have a very structured lesson in place this school year. I hope that will help me stay focused.
ReplyDeleteMany times I have 6 small groups. I want to meet with them all everyday. That was a big struggle to allow some higher groups to get every other day or they get small group tone with my instructional aide. I would love this resource in Spanish. Thanks for letting me know about the resources. Beth
ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge is keeping up with the fast pace in my dual language program. I share 42 students with my English partner. I teach in Spanish. We switch classes every 5 days. We do not have time to finish things up another day. If things are not complete in the 5 days it is hard to get back to them 2 weeks later.
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ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge in small group literacy instruction is to come next year, as I will have to have a high, medium, and low group in both English and Spanish. My goal is to make sure that all students get their needs met in a timely manner. This resource would be so helpful! We have it in English on our campus, but not in Spanish.
ReplyDeleteEvery teacher needs a copy of your prompting guide. I use the LLI system and I love it!
ReplyDeleteMy biggest small group challenge is making sure the rest of the class is engaged in meaningful literacy activities.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest small group challenge is making sure the rest of the class is engaged in meaningful literacy activities.
ReplyDeleteI support and train teachers in our dual language program. Some of the challenges are the many levels of both native and second language learners, interventions for struggling students and time to get it all done.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest challenge in small group instruction thus far is time management since my partner and I alternated classes so I met with a class 3 days or only 2 days per week.
ReplyDeleteThis is exciting! I didn't know they made a Spanish version!
ReplyDeletei'm a new teacher, so one of the biggest challenges with me is time management and organization - sorting my groups, creating the best groups possible, and finding the time to meet with them all!
ReplyDeleteI struggled this past year with managing the two languages I was expected to teach. My groups did not match in the two languages. It was a big headache and I liked your most recent post about this...I thought it was just me!
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