Literacy Block Essentials: Components, Grades 3—5



Literacy Block Essentials: Components, Grades 3—5

TIME: 90-120 minutes

|SPEAKING and LISTENING |

|Small group/Whole group Instruction |

|Think-Pair-Share, Book Talks, Read Alouds, Retelling/Summarizing, Oral Presentations, Collaborative Discussion, |

| READING |WRITING |

|Small Group Instruction |Small Group Instruction (Flexible groups based on needs) |

|Guided Reading: Meet daily for at-risk readers and 3-5 times weekly for average and above readers. |Modeled lessons |

| |Shared writing/Interactive writing |

|Engaged Independent Student Practice at student’s level. (Literacy Stations) |Focused strategy and skill instruction |

|Genre study across all curricular areas (purpose, structure, characteristics) |Conferencing |

|Whole Group Instruction |Whole Group Instruction |

|Teacher-guided Literature Circles |Modeled lessons |

|Read alouds |Shared writing/Interactive writing |

|Shared reading |Focused strategy and skill instruction |

|Modeled lessons |Author sharing |

|Focused skill and strategy lessons | |

|Genre study across curricular areas (purpose, structure, characteristics) |Daily Independent Writing |

| |Writer’s Notebook/Journaling |

|Daily Independent Reading |Writing across all curricular areas |

|Leveled text with some teacher guidance | |

|Response journals | |

|Mini-lessons and conferences | |

|Book talks | |

|LANGUAGE |

|Small group/Whole group Instruction |

|Standard English Grammar, Usage, Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling; Vocabulary Acquisition; Word Walls; Word Sorts |

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