Introduction
all right so once again welcome to our fountain Pinal classroom webinar focused
on interactive read aloud just something to note is there is a URL posted in the
chat box you can click on that URL to go to the Pearson Canada home page for fountain Pannell classroom and I will
refer back to that later on in our session today just if you're interested in looking at any of the different grade
level samples that are available that's where you're going to be able to find those digital samples so as we make our
way through our webinar today just to kind of give you an idea of what we're going to look at I'm just going to
quickly provide an overview of the instructional contexts that make up found some Pannell classroom and then
we'll spend most of our time looking at interactive read aloud what it is how it
links to the continuum of literacy learning and then spend some time looking at how the interactive read
aloud instructional context is organized within fountain pal classroom so be able to get a sense of how it's organized by
text sets and then actually get to look at a sample lesson folder that comes with each title that is in interactive
read aloud and then from there we will look at just some of the themes of
interactive read Aloud's that run through the grade levels and and then just kind of recap everything that we've
covered and finalize our time and stop for some questions at the end as well so that's kind of what our couple or 45
minutes will look like today so as I mentioned earlier any questions feel free to post them in the chat box as we
go through the webinar so just to give you some background on found some Finnell classroom it is a fairly new
literacy system for pre-k through 6 some instructional contexts start in pre-k
and you'll notice that some of them starting k and it's really based on responsive teaching using an inquiry
approach and you'll notice that students are engaged in multiple different types of texts throughout the different
instructional and that they're really all linked together so the one that we're gonna focus on today as I said is interactive
read aloud but you'll notice on the bottom of the slide that there are other
tiles down there and they each stand for a different component oops within found
some Pannell classroom so you'll notice I RA is for interactive read aloud and that runs from pre-k to 6 and then from
there to the right of that is reading mini lessons so reading mini lessons start in kindergarten and go up to grade
6 and these are really focused and practical whole class lessons that look
at management literary analysis strategies and skills and writing about
reading and so that's how they're broken down into those four different umbrellas and there's a specific book for for each
grade level to the right of that for s s R stands for shared reading and this is
an opportunity for teachers to engage in reading with the students in a highly
supported way so it offers the students to listen to the reading and then engage
with the reading as the multiple and subsequent readings take place and the
teacher has a large book format and then you also get multiple copies of the little book format as well as the audio
files so it's a great way for students to like I said really engaged and learn
the processes of reading in a highly supported way to the right of that is guided reading and as many of you know
that's a small group opportunity for students to work with challenging texts
and thinking about fluency and comprehension and again supported by the
teacher in a small group setting and that spans kindergarten to grade six to
the right of that is independent reading so I are this is an opportunity for students to self select text and read
through them independently and also an opportunity for students then to confer
with the teacher on the different readings that they're doing independent reading PW s stands for
phonics spelling and word study again these are by grade level from kindergarten up to grade six they're
just working on releasing grades five and six but this is an opportunity for students to attend to and learn about
sounds letters words and then to the right of that is book clubs and again
opportunities for students in this context to self select the books that
they want to read as part of the book club and really engage in thinking and
talking about the books that they're reading with with their peers so as
you'll see on the slide for interactive read aloud you just kind of see that
first slide up there just highlighting the importance of interactive read aloud
it's really well it happens daily in the classroom takes approximately 15 minutes
and it's really an opportunity for the teacher to model fluent and expressive reading also a chance to model for
students how to think and talk about texts and really deepen their comprehension and also engage students
in the reading so there's often opportunities to stop and pose questions to students and really get them thinking
about the text how it relates to other books with it and the texts that and
they'll talk explore that in a little bit more detail in a few minutes and also make connections between themselves
and other things that they know in their background knowledge and it's a great way to build up students background
knowledge and these texts also serve as great mentor texts for follow-up reading
or writing mini lessons so let's kind of
take a peek at what are some of the pieces that are part of interactive read aloud so
what you'll notice on your screen here is that interactive read aloud there's 120 titles per grade and you'll notice
that there is a lesson folder per title as I already mentioned and there's also
an inquiry overview card per text set so that's the way that these resources are
organized they're organized into 25 text sets per grade level and built there's
approximately four to five books within a text set that are related to each other and so this offers students
opportunities to really think about those big ideas and see how those books
are linked and also to engage in some inquiry around the text set and the
essential question there's also on the inquiry overview cards which you'll see
in just a second there's some inquiry projects that students can engage in and then you also have access to the real
out collection guide that offers just some an overview of interactive read aloud as well as some support with
implementation and you also receive access to the online resources so on
there there's the PDF for each lesson so in addition to actually having the print
lesson folder card you can also access it digitally and there's other resources
on their parent letters and then just some general resources that you have access to as well as some videos where
you can see interactive read-alouds in action
Overview of Interactive Read Aloud
so this next slide here just kind of gives you a quick overview of you know
what happens during an interactive read aloud so as I said it takes about 15 minutes it is whole group and it really
offers the reader to listen in and actively process language ideas meaning
of the text the teachers the one doing the text so this doesn't need to be a
book that's at students independent level because it's actually the teacher doing the reading so oftentimes the text
can be even beyond the instructional reading level of the children and that's okay because it's in highly supported
environment with the teacher doing the reading but the students are involved in the listening and the thinking and the
viewing and are able then to take part in conversations and linking of their
ideas and talking with their peers using academic language and other language
that you're modeling within the interactive read aloud so it's really an opportunity to build that to foundation
of a community of learners within your classroom and just to build some shared
knowledge of books and you'll see how that this component or this
instructional context really weaves and extends into all other instructional
contexts with him found some dental classroom and we'll take a look at that in a little bit more detail in just a
few minutes and as I mentioned because the books are organized in text sets that you're able to make connections
between books within the text sets as well as other books that students may have encountered during different
interactive read aloud text sets or in other instructional contexts like shared reading so let's take a peek at the
Literacy Continuum
literacy continuum because this is really the roadmap or the foundation for
family empanel classroom which is why I want to spend a few minutes on it so I'm sure many of you are familiar with this
resource and if you have benchmark assessment third edition in your building then you will know that this
book is found inside of that box or your school may have purchased it separately but this resource like I said
is really the roadmap or the foundation for fountain panel classroom so it's broken down into eight continua and each
one clearly describes specific behaviors and understandings to notice teach and
support and helps the teacher in making decisions with intention and purpose to
support and select goals for the students in their classroom and so when we think about that whole idea of
responsive teaching that's really where that literacy continuum comes in because
in each of the continuum really provides a strong description of what proficiency
looks like for readers and writers and language users and what are the things
that they need to know and be able to do and so when we think about it and and look at it we think what do our
students already have good control over what do they partially control and what might they may need some more support
with and so it really is that tool for us to take a look at and think about
where our learners at and what sorts of goals might we select might we be modeling to really move those learners
forward with intention and precision so it's really at the heart of everything
we do this literacy continuum because like I said it's broken down to eight continui you can see them listed on the
right of your screen and of course one of them is interactive read aloud so
seven of the eight are organized by grade level and the eighth one guided reading is actually organized by reading
level so if you have this resource like I said I'm sure you're probably quite
familiar with it if not is certainly worth taking a peek at and looking at again what are some of those
descriptions of what proficient readers do at the different grade levels for the different continua that are listed in
there so let's take a little bit deeper look
and look at a quick screenshot of interactive read aloud in literature discussion within the continuum so this
PreK
is actually comes from pre-k I should mention that the continuous from pre-k
to grade 8 and so this is just a quick screenshot from pre-k I know it's hard
to read but I just kind of wanted to give you a sense of what it looks like and so in there I'm just gonna zoom in
on one section here and you'll notice that on this one these are the the goals
or the behave and so you would select a goal let's say for example character and
these are the behaviors and understandings that we want to notice teach and support at that grade level
what you'll also notice is that there is a bullet in front of those behaviors and
understandings and those matched to the system of strategic actions so thinking
within beyond and about the text and I'll put the system of strategic actions wheel up in just a second but anything
that actually has a circle bullet in front of it so a blue circle that is aligned to thinking within the text
anything that has a green diamond is thinking beyond the text and anything
with a purple square is thinking about the text so you'll notice as you go through this resource that everything is
color-coded and you'll be able to see in a minute how interactive read aloud and
this component from the literacy continuum works with the interactive
read aloud component within fountas and pinnell classroom and where the goals are coming from is actually from the
literacy continuum so it's really a great tool like I said to use to think
about what we want students to attend to and also what's new at that at that grade level so you'll notice that in
inside the continuum sometimes the bullet will be read whether it's a circle a diamond or square it will be
read in color and that's just to let you know if an indicator that that's a new reading behavior to
teach for at that grade level so you'll notice that like I said it's some of the bullets will actually be a red color and
so when we think about the system of strategic actions that links to this is
Strategic Actions Wheel
that that wheel that system of strategic actions wheel so that thinking within beyond and about the text and of course
we want students to attend to all these so that they can start to construct and make meaning of the text that they're
reading and obviously all these behaviors they're going on simultaneously as students are engaging with text but as we observe students
reading and talking about their reading and and making sense of it it can really
give us some good ideas about what are those precise behaviors that we want to
make sure that students have a good grasp of and that we really want to like
I said notice teach and support at those different levels so let's move on from
there and really look at bringing us back to then that whole design for responsive teaching so like I said that
we're gonna think about the goals that are within the literacy continuum but and that bigger picture thinking about
all of those continual within there we look at how interactive read aloud
really supports all of the instructional contexts within literacy so really
interactive read aloud is the core I mean what students are doing during this time is they're really engaging with the
text with the teacher they're thinking they're talking they're listening to books we are also hoping that they're
developing a love of reading and also inquiry around various genres and
different big ideas and an opportunity to really develop their shared literary
knowledge so no matter what level of student is reading at everyone can be a
part of interactive read aloud and really be actively engaged in this
instructional context so you'll notice it is at the top and you'll see how it feeds down into the other area so
reading many lessons share reading models and shared an interactive writing writing mini lessons so you'll
see how it connects to everything and those of course filter down into guided reading in book clubs and so on so it
really is that essential piece within our literacy time that interactive read
aloud because it really like I said allows us to support our students in the
area of literacy and then take their understanding from there and apply it in through those other instructional
contacts you will notice that some of the images are sorry some of the squares
and rectangles on your screen have a an orange circle inside of them that's just
to indicate that word study takes place and not just the phonics and word study
component but in all of those other instructional contexts so that's what that is for on that visual so let's take
Inquiry Cards
a look now at the components within interactive read aloud so I'm gonna
start with the overarching inquiry card that is a part of sound simple classroom
interactive read aloud so as I mentioned there are 25 text sets within each grade
level and so you have 25 different overview or inquiry cards that are
included in there and then from there a lesson card for each book so you'll
notice on your screen right now that and this is actually a sample from
grade 2 so again if you follow that link that soy Yen posted in the chat box it
will take you to our fountain pal classroom homepage and there's a little icon that says sample at the top kind of
on the left side if you click on that you'll be actually able to go on there and click on interactive reload and you
can actually look at samples from all the different grade levels so if one suits your needs better than the one I'm
gonna share please go on there and feel free to to download that I'm just gonna
check think we might have a question oh there so yeah I'm just posted the link for you and get in case you missed it so like I
said you'll notice that these five books make up this text set and this text set
is all oops sorry about finding beauty in the world so
here's the thumbnail of all the books that are within that text set and again
this is at grade two so you'll see those five book covers there from there then
you'll see that there's a little bit of information for the teacher about the
text set so I'll just kind of zoom in on that for you there and this is an opportunity to just be kind of come
familiar with the text set and a little bit of an overview of it and how the books and here are connected as well as
other titles or books from other instructional contexts as well as
interactive read aloud that you may want to highlight as you're doing this text
set so there may be other books such as flower garden that maybe you previously read that you can connect to this one as
well or talk to the students about as you're going through this sometimes - there's icons for shared reading so
there could be some shared reading books that link nicely to this in text set as well that you can highlight the other
thing that's also on this overview inquiry card is thinking across books
and so this I'm just gonna zoom in on that for you there this just helps students make
connections across the set but also thinking about similarities differences
to make connections to their lives and like I said across other books so just
poses a few questions there that you might want students to think about
and then from there you'll see the essential question and Big Ideas and so
of course we want to make sure that students are aware of what are those big
ideas that connect all these what does that big idea that connects all these books together and you'll see here kind
of reminds us to make sure that the language that we're using is appropriate for the grade level but it also kind of
gives connect students to the underlying themes that they're gonna be hearing about discussing as they go through this
text set and then on page two of the
inquiry card there is a section for asking that's called asking questions and this
just provides some open-ended questions to get students thinking about the big
ideas to identify lines of inquiry that they may want to research and explore as
they go through the text set or it could be it's some inquiry that their projects
that they're going to do after the text set is covered or all the books are read so again you can decide and you'll see
here here are some of the suggested product projects for exploration so
these are some of the things that we might want to students to possibly extend their learning with and do some
inquiry projects on and like I said they could be things that students are completing as you're going through the
text set or on completion of reading all the books within the text set so that's
Lesson Folder
just a quick overview of the general inquiry card that's included for each text set now let's look a little bit
more closely at one of the lessons so this comes from that same text set about
finding beauty in the world and this is actually the lesson of folder for last
stop on Market Street so remember each title within the interactive read aloud
has its own lesson folder so here you'll see just to kind of a quick highlight of
the materials that you're gonna need for the lesson as well as
the other texts that are part of that text sent and also it lists you know the
genre and the author and illustrator and that kind of information the lesson is
four pages and it's really a tool to
support teachers in this instructional context and help you to make decisions about the students that you're working
with but it's not a script so you'll notice that as I show you this sample or
if you explore some of the other samples from our website that there's lots of
suggestions provided but of course you as the teacher are going to use what best meets the needs of the learners
that you're working with so there's all the materials that you need the other thing that's on here is actually a
summary and this just again is some helpful information for the teacher to
know ahead of time and then from there
you'll right below that are messages and there could be more than one message per book and it is that bigger idea so it's
not just a summary but what are the some of those main or big ideas of the text
that we want students to come away with and then just below that you'll see that
on the next part it leads right into the goals and I know it's a little bit hard
to see but there's actually an icon there of the literacy continuum and this
is just an opportunity to highlight what are some of those goals that we're gonna
focus on or that you could focus on from that grade level from the literacy
continuum so they've already pulled some out for you knowing that you can go back to the literacy continuum and choose
some other appropriate goals that might again work for the students that you're
working with but these are the ones that they've pulled out so they've already made those connections for you so you can take a peek at some of those and
again think about what are the ones that might be most important for the students that you're working with
and then just below that there's another section in there that is really helpful for the teacher to know before they they
read through this book with the students and this is about this book and so that
information is really important because it provides well obviously the genre and
a little bit of information about the how the book works but information that we're gonna want to know prior to
teaching so that we can make some teaching decisions about what things we
might want to draw students attention to so there could be you know important
characteristics in the book that students that are gonna be new or unfamiliar to students and so we may
want to make sure that those are some things that we're gonna highlight and address and so those are always book
specific and you'll notice that when you look at some of the ones listed here that they are specific to blast stop on
Market Street all right so let's go onto page two of the sample lesson on this
side you'll see some information about introducing the tax and so that's really
how the I'll just kind of give you an overview about how the lesson actually works so the teacher is obviously going
to introduce the tax we really want to engage the students in the book and activate their thinking the teachers are
going to read the text they're going to discuss it you may choose to revisit the text and you may have students respond
to the text so let's we're gonna take a little bit of time to explore each of those sections in a little bit more
detail just so you can get a sense of again how that is laid out these are
lesson folders follow the same format for each of the grade levels so like I
said this is grade two but you'll notice if you're looking at a different grade right now they follow the same format so
introducing the text obviously we're going to provide a brief introduction we
really want students to start engage them in their thinking before they actually hear the book or read to them
we also want to engage their curiosity as well and really get them to take that
inquiry approach towards the book they're my toss this might also be a time to highlight
some of the important things that we might want them to notice as we read you'll notice here that it there's a
couple suggestions provided about introducing the text to students and some of them have a little circle bullet
next to them or after the question and that just indicates that that's an opportunity for students to respond to
the questions and you might have them turn and talk or a few should students share aloud about their thinking before
you actually jump into the reading of the text and then from there the teacher is going to read the text and again just
knowing that we're going to stop a few times and engage students and some brief
conversations and sharing their thinking again because they're all in that whole group you know maybe an on that area on
a carpet or something like that it's easy for them to turn and talk obviously that looks a little bit different right now with things being virtual but again
this is something that could be done virtually we may have the students stop and think about or a few people share
some of their comments as we pause after certain points within the reading but
this is a chance for students to really participate and act on the information that we're sharing and then discuss the
text so what you'll notice here is it links back to that system of strategic
actions so when we discussed the text there's some conversational prompts offered so some questions and comments
that again are suggested it's up to you if you want to you know use them all or
use some of them or you may want to paraphrase them and this isn't a test or
anything like that but it's just a way to kind of sense the general understanding of the group and get a
sense of what kinds of things are they processing and thinking about what kinds
of things might we focus in on or what what are those key understandings that we really want to make sure that that
they're getting from this book so there are some key understandings shared again these are book specific and it links to
that thinking within the text beyond the text and about the text and again at
this point in time we're just kind of listening in to students thinking so that we can start to make some decisions there may be some things
that we want to revisit or maybe we're going to reread and revisit the book another day and maybe come back to some
of those areas that students you think students might need some more support
with or that you want to revisit so here is the next section that is responding
Response to the Text
to the text and there's always a variety of forms to respond to the text so there's things like art and writing and
in the writing it's either interactive independent or shared writing it will
always kind of cue you as to which one would make the most sense in that
setting but again you could make a decision to do independent writing during this time here you'll see a
sample of shared writing that was done but there's also links to other subjects
such as social studies they're also linking it to community service there could be a link to to art so again lots
of ways for students to respond to the reading and then one of the other things
that you'll notice is that in the margin
and I'm just going to zoom in on this one but in the margin as as you go through the lesson there's always
supports for English learners and this is suggestions that are book specific as
well as specific to each of the different parts of the lesson so within
reading the text there's gonna be some supports built in for supporting English
learners and also when you discuss the text there'll be other supports provided
in there and again these are specific to the book and it really is just that
scaffolding and support or some modifications that we might use to
support those students so that they benefit from the teaching that's happening during the interactive read
aloud so always lots of good ideas in there that can help you out and of course just to support those students in
the processing of the text and then on
Revisiting the Text
the fourth page of the lesson folder you'll see that there is reread and
revisit the text so you may decide you know a couple days later that you're gonna come back to this text you may
reread a portion of it or a page or two or revisit it at a later time you might
focus in on a certain area and just do more of a close reading of a section of
the book you may want students to like I said focus on something new this time or
there could be some comprehension and language things that you want to attend to it could be something under
vocabulary or something related to book and print features so for example maybe
you want to look at a label drawing because maybe the students are gonna be doing some writing and this can serve as the mentor text for your writing
mini-lesson so that could just be an idea of how you're gonna revisit the book and use it to support another
instructional context but again as the teacher you're gonna make decisions on what's really going to meet the needs of
the students that you're working with in your class so again lots of suggestions to go from and then from there there is
the section connect to other books and so here again if you've read other books
in the text set it just offers some connections that can be made to the
topic or the theme and then finally from there the assess the learning piece and
so obviously as you're doing the interactive read aloud and students are sharing their thinking and you're
listening in on students when they turn and talk with their partners this is
just an opportunity to find evidence of these sorts of things that are listed
here again there's some samplings of things that you might want to notice and these link back again to the goals of
the lesson and specifically to the behaviors and understandings that are in
the literacy continuum so you can really see how that literacy continuum really
is the foundation or the roadmap of all the components within found Sentinel
classroom so that's a brief overview of the inquiry card as well as a sample
less with an interactive reel out what I'm gonna do now is I just want to actually
show you a few other things that are specific and unique to this
instructional context so one of the things is I've talked about those text sets a few times and one of the things
Universal Themes
you'll notice though is that there are some universal themes and this is a great way for students to build on the
theme from one grade level to an X so as they go from grade level to grade level they're looking at for this sample
that's actually on the screen they're looking at self-identity across the grades and so you'll notice in pre-k all
the way up through grade 6 it all comes back to that whole idea or theme of
self-identity but the text sets are slightly different and so obviously as the students go up the grades and the
books become and the themes become more complex students still have an
opportunity to think linked back to that theme that you know they would have
explored you know the year prior but in a more sophisticated way and it also
gives students an opportunity to make connections especially from year to year and as they grow themselves to make
connections to themselves and as they build their understanding of the world and what they know they're going to take
on new thinking add and build their background knowledge as well as take on
new perspectives and just different ways to explore diverse perspectives and
different genres and crafts and and encounter different authors and illustrators so it's a like I said a
great way to connect that thinking from from grade level to grade level and this is just one example of some of the
universal themes within interactive really loud
the other thing that I wanted to highlight is the connection to reading mini lessons so at the beginning of our
Reading Mini Lessons
webinar I talked briefly about the other instructional context that make up fountain pen aisle classroom and one of
them was interactive read aloud and or sorry one of them was reading mini lessons and the reason why I want to
make the connection to reading mini lessons is that the interactive read aloud text oftentimes serve as the
mentor text for reading mini lessons so if you have these reading mini lessons
books in your school you'll notice that oftentimes it will say the title of the
interactive read aloud from that grade level as the mentor text you can also use other mentor text but it will link
it for you so that you can start to make some of those connections between the books that you've done interactive read
aloud and again just focusing in or maybe doing some close reading on a certain part of that interactive read
aloud text to get your reading mini-lesson principle across to to the students so and then of course the
students are then able to apply what they're learning into their independent reading but it's just a way to build
some coherence and for students also to make some connections from what's
happening and interactive read aloud into the reading mini lessons so that
Questions
kind of brings us full circle back to this visual that is shared at the
beginning and just going back and highlighting the importance of interactive read aloud and it really
being that core and that opportunity where readers and writers engage with each other and the teachers and all of
those processes that happen during interactive read aloud or a way for
students to really start to transfer that learning and understanding that
they're building during that time into other instructional contexts whether
their whole group small group or individual opportunities
so I'm going to just open it up to questions that anyone has and as I'm
doing that I'll just put this slide up this is just some of the other webinars that we have taking place throughout
this month and into next month so if you're looking to get some more information on any of the other
instructional contexts you can sign up for these webinars on the same page that
you would have signed up for this one and again if you follow that URL that SOI yen shared you'll be able to get to
that page so again if you have questions you can
post them in the chat I do want to just highlight a few things on here if you do
want to print samplers so as I said earlier you can get the copy of the
digital sampler on the website but if you want a print copy sampler you can
contact the rap I'll put their contact information up in just a minute and they
can mail you out one or if you want to look at anything in a little bit more
detail you can always do a virtual meet up with one of our reps and they'd be happy to show you some other samples
especially if you're looking at a particular grade level if you want some more information about it I would just
want to highlight the importance of joining the fountain panel literacy community it is free to join if you go
to fountas and pinnell comm there's lots of great free stuff on there webinars there's study guides if you're leading
some professional developments for teachers but lots of great instructional tools that you can access for free so
you just have to sign up on there and you'll be able to get that information as easy as you need it and one of the
things that I'm not sure if I mentioned it earlier I know I said that when
students are doing some responding to the text it transfers over into a lot of different other subject areas and
opportunities for them to engage in things that bring in art or social or those kinds of things but the text sets
as well as they if you want to look at a sample of them you can when you download
the sampler there is some the text sets provided for each grade level and so you'll be able to kind of get a sense of
what the focuses are within each grade level but just to kind of give you an idea some of the text sets in for
example grade one are celebrating diversity looking at folktales
understanding the natural world exploring fiction and nonfiction using
numbers so again that connection to math question and answer is a text set in
Gritty - they're looking at things like bibliographies they're doing an author
study and books linked to Jan Brett is one of the text sets they're looking at living
and working together in a community they look at exploring insects so again lots
of different ways to connect it to many subject areas social science math and so
those are just some of the ones I wanted to to highlight so I'll just flip back
to that slide prior hopefully you can still see that on your screen again if
you have any questions you can reach out to one of the reps they'd be happy to answer them for you or direct you to
someone that will be able to answer your questions but if you have any right now please post them in the chat and I'll be
on here for another couple minutes if you would like to sign off feel free to do that thanks again for taking the time
to join us today I know like I said at the top of the hour it's certainly been
an adjustment the last couple of weeks and so I thank you for all the work that you're doing with the students and I
wish you health and hopefully that you're staying safe and again thanks for
coming