11. Theme 14: Going Places The Daily Plan Theme 14: Going Places
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Notas del editor
Who--We are: 4 th year participants in ERF with Lorain City Schools; Beth Dianne Gloria and Sandy who’s not here, but planned with us for today Why: to share our experience with the core curriculum, Harcourt Trophies; it’s not perfect, but as you work through the grant process, you will learn to fill in the gaps. You’ll have people to support you.
Reach for your goals---trophies will provide you with most of the tools you’ll need to reach you goals
Harcourt is a tool to aide the teacher to achieve maximum instructional effectiveness. There is no perfect core curriculum. The best that can be done is to select a core program that best aligns with the five essentials. It is the teacher who has the most impact and influence on student achievement.
Circle time: Whole group engagement with the 5 essential elements of early literacy— oral language Vocabulary Phonological awareness Shared writing Letters and sounds Story time: Whole group exploration of concepts print in literature It’s all about the book— Big books collection Lap books collection Big book of rhymes and songs Nursery rhymes anthology Take-home books (in stories and more) Activity time: Small group instruction directed by the teacher Reinforce the themes Differentiating to meet the individual needs of the students Objectives: The objectives are mainly global for each of the essential elements They remain the same throughout the entire unit. Meeting individual needs or differentiating: (pp. 124-129) Extra support is written on the bottom of the essential elements and activity time pages They are organized by color: red= extra support; ELL learners/language delay; advanced
Planning sheet for each group 5 groups Color coordinated Day 1—red Day 2—orange Day 3—green Day 4—blue Day 5--purple