Hye Jung's Playground

Literacy coaches need to ensure that intentional and relevant literacy instruction is taking place, even as school schedules become tighter. Explore rationales, aesthetics, and procedures that focus on literacy coaching for improving instruction. Literacy processing to adapt and sustain appropriate instructional practices that promote forward shifts in literacy learning and instruction is also addressed. Includes downloadable handouts.
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Collaborative Literacy is an innovative approach to K–6 literacy instruction. It starts with the earliest stages of foundational skill development, and leads to students constructing sophisticated arguments and synthesizing texts, while at the same time supporting students' social skill development.
8 min. 26 sec.