"Balance, peace and joy are the fruits of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them." Thomas Kincade
Balanced Literacy:
It is widely recognized that students need a variety of strategies to become proficient readers and writers (Hughes 207). Alberta Education recognizes this, requiring educators to address all strands of English Language Arts: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing.
The Components of Balanced Literacy:
The Components of Balanced Literacy:
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My desire to share the written word with students, combined with presenting it in a manner that incorporates all modalities is the essence of balanced literacy and how I naturally approach the delivery of English Language Arts.
Modeled reading and writing: I model reading aloud to my students. Stressing fluency, and intonation. I also add a bit of dramatic, as directed by the author. If the character is whispering I whisper, if the character is vehement, then my voice indicates this. I enjoy the writing process and sharing this with my students. Modeling writing is another opportunity to show my students what is expected of them.
Shared and interactive reading and writing: My love of literature is infectious, sharing and interacting with reading and writing is the reason I chose to be a English Language Arts educator. Assisting students to become fluent, confident, communicators is very important to me and balance literacy provides the opportunity to accomplish this.
Guided Reading & Writing: Balanced Literacy provides the structure to expand a student's confidence of their ability as a reader and writer. Assessing formatively and providing an abundance of feedback will produce strong readers and writers.
Independent Reading and Writing: The ultimate goal is that as the teacher I have provided a balance of instruction, practice, assessment and feedback that will enable my students to be successful independent readers and writers.
Modeled reading and writing: I model reading aloud to my students. Stressing fluency, and intonation. I also add a bit of dramatic, as directed by the author. If the character is whispering I whisper, if the character is vehement, then my voice indicates this. I enjoy the writing process and sharing this with my students. Modeling writing is another opportunity to show my students what is expected of them.
Shared and interactive reading and writing: My love of literature is infectious, sharing and interacting with reading and writing is the reason I chose to be a English Language Arts educator. Assisting students to become fluent, confident, communicators is very important to me and balance literacy provides the opportunity to accomplish this.
Guided Reading & Writing: Balanced Literacy provides the structure to expand a student's confidence of their ability as a reader and writer. Assessing formatively and providing an abundance of feedback will produce strong readers and writers.
Independent Reading and Writing: The ultimate goal is that as the teacher I have provided a balance of instruction, practice, assessment and feedback that will enable my students to be successful independent readers and writers.