Introduction
so welcome and thanks again for joining me today for our webinar on Thomson
spinel classroom interactive read aloud before we kind of dive right into interactive read Aloud's I just want you
to take a look at the bottom of your screen you'll see a bunch of tiles at
Overview of FP Classroom
the bottom there and what you'll notice is all of those tiles stand for
different resources that make up fountas and pinnell classroom with a different instructional context and found us in
Pinal classroom is really made up of different instructional contexts that
are worked together in a coherent literacy system from pre-k to grade six
and it's designed on the whole premise of responsive teaching and also uses inquiry and a multi text approach and
links the instructional context as you'll be able to kind of see as we go through interactive read aloud today and
and how it connects to some of those other pieces so just to kind of quickly give you a brief overview of the other
components within found symp in our classroom you'll notice across the bottom IRA is interactive read aloud and
that's the one that we will address today to the right of that is reading mini lessons and reading mini lessons or
is a book by grade level from K to 6 and it provides some focused practical mini
lessons that fall into the areas of management literary analysis strategies and skills and writing about reading and
I'll kind of highlight that a little bit towards the end of our time together today just because you'll be able to see
how interactive read aloud really supports that instructional context to the right of that is shared reading and
shared reading is a collection of enlarged texts as well as them in small
book format and audio formats so that students can really start to construct
meaning about texts but in a supported context and also take part in the
readings and multiple readings and shared reading to the right of that one is guided
gr and that is small group instruction with level Tex and supporting students
from kindergarten to grade 6 and just opportunities for students to as they
engage with those challenging texts to build on their fluency their comprehension talking about with their
peers about their their thinking and their understanding and then I our is
next to that independent reading and this is a collection of student books
that are done by grade level so they go from K to 6 and this is an opportunity
for students to read some self selected text and then PWS stands for phonics
spelling and word study and these are explicit phonics spelling word study lessons by grade level and of course
helping students develop their understanding of learning about attending to sounds letters words and
all those key pieces and again phonics spelling word study as you'll see with a
lot of the other instructional contexts is embedded not only on in its own
instructional context but is embedded into the other instructional context and in films in Pinal classroom and then
finally B C stands for book clubs and this is just a great opportunity for students to have some discussion about
self selected text within their book clubs so they get to self select which book club that they'll be a part of and
it's a popular trade book and they're able to you know talk with their peers
share their thinking and their understanding about texts so our time today is going to be spent really
digging in to interactive read Aloud's and spending some time going through
exactly what interactive read Aloud's are and how they can be used to support
students in the classroom so the interactive read aloud is occurs daily
and it's a really an opportunity for students to hear fluent an expressive
reading also a chance for them to think and talk about texts and and deepen
their comprehension as they have chances to enjoy classroom disco with their peers engaging discussions
with their teacher and also within interactive read aloud it's an opportunity for students to make
connections between texts and themes and you'll see that as we kind of talked
about how interactive read-alouds are built within the fountas and pinnell
classroom system and how they're organized and it also creates some great
mentor attacks for teachers to refer to when we're looking at writing about
reading or doing a reading mini lesson so lots of opportunities to bring those interactive read aloud texts back into
other instruction that's happening in the classroom whoops I'll just get back
Interactive Read Aloud Overview
a slide there okay so what you'll notice is that within interactive read aloud I
think I skipped one ahead there we go there are 120 titles per grade from
pre-k to 6 and with each title there is a lesson folder per title and you'll be
able to see a sample of what that looks like so I'll take you through that so I'll just kind of review or kind of go
over interactive read Aloud's and how they're set up within found simple classroom and then we'll be able to jump right into a sample lesson and see what
those lesson folders look like also within the interactive read aloud
there is also an inquiry overview card so the way interactive read allows are set up within fountain Pannell classroom
is that they're organized by something called text sets and so all of the text
sets then are organized around essential questions and big ideas and so there's
these overarching inquiry overview cards and it's really an opportunity to
encourage students to engage in further exploration and inquiry around that big
idea or that essential question
there's also online support provided so there's the pdfs or the lesson folders
of each lesson is also available online and so you get that online access when
you purchase you also get an interactive read aloud collection guide which kind of just goes over the components of
interactive read aloud and some support with implementation of it there's also
videos available on the online resources that you can take a peek AK and C
interactive read Aloud's in action alright so as I mentioned just as we got
What is Interactive Read Aloud
started interactive read aloud is an opportunity for the teacher to bring the whole class together engage students in
those texts have opportunities for students to discuss and share their
thinking and their understanding of the text and their meaning and it's really
an opportunity to foster that sense of community a community of learners within the classroom and linking that the
talking and the thinking and academic language that students are using when they're discussing that particular text
and and connecting it to the other text within the text set you'll notice as I
mentioned earlier that the language and the shared knowledge that students gain
from the interactive read aloud really extends into the other instructional
context so those tiles that are across the bottom and you'll kind of be able to see that as we walk through our time
together today but there's also a few other things that are on the slide here that are important to just think about
I'm one of them being that these texts are often beyond where the students are reading so obviously with an interactive
read aloud there's a high level of teacher support because the teachers the one doing the reading so it's not
necessarily a book that students have to be able to read on their own because the teachers the one doing the reading but
we want to engage students in those challenging texts to build their background knowledge to have give them
opportunities to deepen their understanding as we model those processes for them
Literacy Continuum
so Before we jump into the sample I just wanted to highlight to the literacy
continuum because you'll be able to see that the literacy continuum is really
the roadmap or foundation for not just fountain Pannell class or not just interactive read aloud but fountain
Pannell classroom as a whole so what you'll notice here you've probably seen
the literacy continuum before this is the expanded edition it is actually part
of benchmark assessment third edition so if you have that resource at your schools you may have looked at this
resource prior to now and and it's included in the benchmark assessment
system box or you may have purchased it separately but anyways the whole idea is that you'll see how when we go through
the lesson it links back and everything comes back always to the literacy continuum so it really is that
foundational piece you'll see that on the right of your screen there are eight continua listed and that is how the
literacy Continuum's broken down so this is really a tool that teachers can dive
in and and look at different the different continual within there to
really support the whole idea of responsive teaching so in the continuum if you've had a chance to look through
it you're probably aware that it really does provide strong descriptions of what proficient readers and writers do and
language users do and what they need to know what you'll notice is within the
literacy continuum and I'll give you just a screenshot of what it looks like inside interactive read aloud in just a
second but what you'll notice is that all of the continua except for guided
reading are organized by grade level and so that just kind of gives us as teachers things to think about about
what do proficient readers and writers and language users do and what are your
students what do they already know what are they not yet know so we can teach towards that or do they partially know
and the whole idea is really figuring out where students are at and using that
information to move them forward with with intention and so within interactive
read aloud as I mentioned it is organized by grade level and it clearly
identifies those competencies that that students need so here's just a quick
System of Strategic Actions
glimpse of what it looks like and you'll notice that in here there's some
different organizational features that are common throughout the literacy continuum and you'll see them carried
over into the lesson folders that are part of the different instructional context and in particular today
interactive read aloud but what I want you to see is obviously you'll see here that it talks about it or it on this
screen it's referencing fiction text and what you'll notice is it's actually broken down to that whole idea of the
system of strategic action so that thinking within beyond and about the text and so I know you can't really read
the one on your screen so I'll just zoom in in particular on to this goal around
character and what you'll notice here and this is I think this is a pre-k a sample but what you'll notice is that
there's different bullets in front of each of those behaviors or
understandings that we want to notice teach and support and so anything with assert a blue circle is thinking within
the text anything with a green diamond is thinking beyond the text and anything
with a purple square is thinking about the text so based on what we know about
our students and and where they are at in their in their journeys and and what
the information that we've observed for from meeting with students and listening
to them read and talking with them now we can look at some of these these goals and then in particular the behaviors
understandings that we really want to notice teach and support and which ones do students have a great control of and
where might they need more support so this is really about using that information to drive instruction and
you'll see how that's bridged into the lessons for all of fountas and pinnell
classroom instructional context but just kind of wanted to give you that overview of how those resources are
linked together and you'll see here yeah so there's the bullets and so it all
comes back as I said to that system of strategic actions the thinking within beyond and about the tax so if you've
worked with the literacy continuum or you're familiar with benchmark assessments this is nothing new for you
but just like I said I just wanted to highlight the importance of the system
of strategic actions okay so let's look at next the next slide here and I just
Interactive Read Aloud
wanted to draw your attention to this before we jump into that sample lesson what you'll notice here is we at the top
is interactive read aloud and so that is really the core this is where the
readers and writers are engaging with their with their peers and also with teachers and they're they're talking and
they're listening and thinking about tax and and being exposed to a variety of
genres as well in literature and this is an opportunity for students to really
develop a shared literacy knowledge or literary knowledge I should say so no
matter what reading level students may be at this is a opportunity for everyone
in the class to take part and like I said build their understanding their language build that sense of community
within our classroom because interactive read aloud is really that foundation for all other reading writing talking
thinking that happens in the classroom also within here you'll see how as I
said it's kind of that foundational piece you'll see how interactive read aloud supports those other instructional
contexts so you'll see it feeds into reading mini lessons which then feeds into the guided reading and book clubs so the types of reading behaviors and
understandings that students are developing with interactive read aloud really funnels into all those other
instructional contexts including writing as well so you'll notice on this visual that anything that's kind of in that
yellowish color is it writing and then on the far right you'll notice that the orange is for fun
expelling word study so just kind of wanted to give you that general overview so let's jump right now into a sample
Sample Lesson
lesson this is what the lesson folder looks like I'm actually going to zoom in on all of these parts so you can get a
better sense of the different components of the lesson because I know these screenshots are a little bit small and
hard to see but so yen also posted a link in the chat so if you're joining us
on there recording you can still click the link that's in the chat and be able to access that webpage that will bring
you to our Pearson Canada school found us of Pinal homepage and on there you'll
see a little tab at the top with samples or explore and you can go in there and you can look at some of the samples
because like I said I'm only gonna be able to share one with you today but if you want to see a sample of the overview
inquiry card and then the lesson folders by grade levels you'll be able to see some samples in there all the way up til
to grade six so whether you're working with you know kindergarten students or grade five students you'll be able to
get a sense of how do the lessons progress from one grade to the other and you'll see obviously that there's a lot
of the features are common but obviously the themes and messages that students
are working with her more complex as we move up the grades so let's dive right
in here to some of these key pieces so this is actually from grade two and this
text set to remember I could have talked at the beginning of our time together how the books are organized in text sets
this is about 25 text sets per grade level and within a text set there's you know anywhere between you know four or
five six books within that text set so you'll see for this one that a big idea
is finding beauty in the world around you so again this is grade two and let's
Key Features
just dive into some of these key features
Overview Card
so you'll see that here's a sample of the just the thumbnails of the books
that like I said are part of this text set and then in particular today we will
actually be looking at the lesson for last stop on Market Street but this is that overarching inquiry card that you
get so this isn't the actual card for just this lesson this is that overview card so what you'll see here is it talks
about the tax set and there you can see zoomed in a little bit so it will just
kind of give you some background information for the teacher and then it'll also list other books that are
that could be used that you may have from other fountas and pinnell classroom
collection so you'll see here that for example there's other interactive read-aloud books that would also fit in
this tax set or that you could make some connections to if you've already read them this one in particular it doesn't
have any on the screen right now but there is also there could also be books reference from shared reading or other
instructional contacts so just gives the teacher a little bit of information about that and a little bit of an
explanation of the text set and then from there it also includes thinking
Thinking Across Books
across books so this is an opportunity to just zoom in for you there to kind of
Questions
just get students thinking about similarities or differences or making
connections to their own lives or thinking about other books within that
text set so there's just some questions that are provided there again the
teachers the one deciding and you'll see this as we go through the lesson what's
most important for the students that they're working with so there's always a lot of suggestions provided but of
course the teachers going to decide which goals or which questions or when
you're doing the intro to the book what's most important for the students that you're currently working with and
what would benefit them the most based on where they're at as as readers so the other thing that I
Essential Question
mentioned earlier is that there is that essential question or big idea so again we're talking about finding beauty in
the world around you and this is an opportunity just to get get students thinking and engaged about you know the
types of books that they're gonna be reading about and also thinking about
how it's meaningful to them so we want to make sure that kids are
aware of that big idea and that we're constantly coming back to that as we revisit this text set and then from
there again this is that overview inquiry card from there you'll see that there's some questions shared and the
questions here are again there they're all linked back to that big idea or those essential questions and this is
just to get students thinking about engaging in exploring with that topic
and what might be some of the questions that might lead to a project that they might do to engage more in that big idea
and link back to that essential question so there's some questions provided there
and there's some suggested product projects for exploration so this is an
opportunity for students to really engage in the process of inquiry and bring together all that they have
learned about in that text set so that's that overview card and what that looks
like so as I mentioned we're gonna actually just look at the one now in a
sample of the one lesson so we just looked at the overview inquiry card for the text set now we're going to dive
into the actual lesson for one of the books within there called last stop on
Market Street so this is as I mentioned a great two lesson but you can find
samples of all other grades on the digital sampler so at the top of the
Lesson Folder
lesson folder that that you have available for each title so remember that every title has its own lesson
folder you'll notice that it provides obviously the things that you will need
for the lesson so any materials that need and then from there you'll see that
obviously lists the book the grade level the author the illustrator what genre it is and then what are the other books
that are part of that text set so they're the whoops I lost my there we go
Book Summary
there you'll be able to see how many books are in that text set and what are the other ones maybe you've already read some of them so that you can again make
those connections back to it the other thing that it does is it provides a summary of the book so again just some
important information for the teacher and then just below that any of those main messages or those big ideas that we
want students to think about so those are provided there just below that so
sometimes there's one or a couple within there but some again just giving the
teacher that background information the other part that's also in front of that lesson folder for each book is the
Characteristics
characteristics sorry I jumped ahead of myself is the goals so the goals you'll
The Goals
see it the icons a little bit small to see but the goals actually come straight from the continuum so remember I talked
about at the beginning where the continuum is really that roadmap or that foundational piece so here you'll see
these are some of the goals and because this is a great tool s and obviously the goals are coming from the interactive
read aloud section of the literacy continuum for grade 2 and so here's some
appropriate goals that you might want to consider again as a teacher there's there's plenty of things here you can
decide you know what might be those couple of important things that you really want to focus in on or you may
have other you may go back into the continuum and choose other goals based on the students that you're working with and then just below that is about this
book and so this is some information again for the teacher to have ahead of
time so that they can make some important decisions about things they
might highlight and understand what are some of those important text characteristics that
want to make sure that you highlight with students or you might want to make sure that they they know prior to reading the story so again in his book
specific so each lesson folder has specific information about the book that
will be obviously different from the other books in there so that's nice it kind of gives the teacher again that
that overview and again what are some of those important text characteristics to focus on so as you then jump right into
the lesson you'll notice that as we go through I mean the structure of an interactive read aloud lesson is really
that we're going to introduce the text to students and and we're gonna read the text to them and we're gonna be stopping
to discuss the text as we read and allow students to reflect and share their thinking and could be turning and
talking we may come back and revisit the text and you'll see that as I talk through this could be optional because
you might revisit just a certain part of it to highlight something important when you're doing a reading mini lesson or
you kind of want to dig back into a certain part of the text to just kind of do some close reading on a certain page
or a couple of pages that you really want students to be aware of and then you'll also see that there is a chance
for students to respond to the text again that's an optional piece that you can decide whether you want to use that or not but there's always suggestions
provided so let's kind of look a little bit deeper into all of those components
and you'll kind of get a sense of exactly how it's set up so here's the introduction to the text and so here
again just some suggestions provided there you'll notice that some of them
actually have a circle bullet next to the question and that's just to let the
teacher know that that might be a good spot to allow students to respond or you
know share their thinking could be as a whole class or turn and talk to their partner beside them but the whole idea
here is just that it's a really a brief introduction to get them thinking before you actually read the book to them we
really just want to engage their curiosity and just kind of build that
inquiry stance towards the book and and could be even highlighting some important things
we want them to notice as we start to read and then from there we're actually going to do some reading and again some
Reading
opportunities or suggestions provided below you might not use them all but there's there's plenty on there and you
may even have some spontaneous thoughts that come up as you're as you're reading
through and you may put those up to the students and like I said you may have them turn and talk or share with with a
partner as they're together in that that space listening to to the book and then
from there we move on to the next part which is discussing the text and so this
Discussing
is an opportunity for the teacher to help the students deepen their
understanding and you'll notice here that there are conversational prompts and questions kind of suggested and
there's also some of those key understandings that fall within beyond and about the text so some of those key
ideas that we want students to have an understanding of now again this isn't a
test but it's for the students but it's a way to gauge their understanding and hear their thoughts and their thinking
about the text sets that you've shared with them so again these are books specific thinking within beyond in about
the texts those key understandings then there's opportunities for students to
Responding
respond to the text now I just kind of zoomed in on shared writing I mean there's other suggestions here so you
don't have to use the writing suggestion it could be social studies there's community service things that are linked
here but if you're having students responding this one here is having them
respond by doing some shared writing so oftentimes when it shares out having
students respond to text if there's a writing piece that will tell you it could be in the form of interactive
independent or shared writing and there's always a variety of different forms suggested for students to respond
to the text one of the things that you'll notice in the margin and I
haven't zoomed in on any of them yet so I just have one to kind of show you but in the margin
Supporting English Learners
throughout the lesson so in each of the different components or parts of the lessons of the introducing they're
reading the discussing and then they're responding there's always supports provided for English language learners and they're
specific to that part to end component of the lesson so for this one here this is in the responding to text and so
you'll notice here that there's some support provided for our English learners and again these are just some
suggestions for a modifying or scaffolding the instruction to really support and benefit those students so
that they can really take away as much as they can from from the interactive read aloud all right and then from there
Reread
there's the reread and revisit the text so this is the last part of the lesson
folder and here again as I mentioned earlier you may want to reread the text
or revisit it at a later time and maybe focus in and do some close reading on a
certain part or maybe there's a certain comprehension strategy or some
vocabulary or print features that we really want to highlight with the students and so we might come back to the book another day and look at that a
little bit more closely so you'll see here there's lots of suggestions provided for comprehension and language
for vocabulary and for book and print features so there may be one of those things that you really want to draw
students back to to notice and again as the teacher you're going to make those
decisions based on the observations that you're making as you're reading the
interactive read aloud and you're listening in to students have conversations and share their thinking about the text and then the next part
here is connecting to other books or text sets and so here there it's pretty
Connecting
self-explanatory but if you've read other or similar books or other books in
that text set again there's some suggestions provided to have for how to make connections between those books and
the last part here is just that assess the learning again it's tied back to the
Assessment
literacy continuum and those schools that are in there and this is just an opportunity to think and you know notice
about the types of things that are evident as you read the interactive read
aloud and students engage with it and just some of those key observations or
pieces of evidence that we want to look for and be noticing as part of this
lesson and like I said it's tied to the to the goals of the lesson so you'll notice that it brings you back to the
literacy continuum so that's a really brief overview of interactive read aloud
and I would encourage you if you want to look at a different grade level to go on to the Pearson Canada school if found
sub Pinal homepage and look at the different grade levels and the different sample lessons on there so what I wanted
to do from there was just kind of talk about a few more of the highlights that
Universal Themes
are part of interactive read aloud and the way it's sequenced and set out so
one of the things is that you'll notice right here actually on your slide is there are different text sets or themes
and some of these themes are their universal themes so you'll notice on the slide here you'll see how the whole
Universal theme of self-identity progresses from pre-k all the way up to
grade 6 now obviously you know the text sets they're gonna be more sophisticated as
we go higher up the grade levels and the themes and topics and ideas are going to be different from grade level to grade
level but they all tie back to that same Universal theme so that's really a great opportunity for students to make
connections to other texts from maybe books that they read the previous year it also lets students connect to
themselves their world exploring perspectives and really start to notice patterns and
could be possible works of specific you know authors or illustrators because some of the text sets are going to be
like a more of an author studies so this is just one sample of one of the universal themes and and some of the
text sets that students will engage in in interactive read aloud that is part
of them Symphony classroom so I just kind of wanted to highlight that for you there is a suggested sequence of the
text sets so remember there's 25 text sets per grade level there is a suggested sequence but of course again
you may modify that based on on your needs and and the students needs of
course and what makes the most sense at that time but I will just kind of give you a few samples of some of the other
text sets that that are out there so for example in grade 1 there's a text set
around using numbers so it's all about books with counting in them there's text
sets that look at the importance of friendship or kindness taking care of
others standing up for yourself using your imagination so humorous texts the
passage of time you know fractured fairy tales so all sorts of different things that are going to help students to build
their background knowledge and really engage in high-quality and text within
interactive read aloud so in the sampler you'll be able to see some of those
texts set so if you go to a specific grade level it will outline the text sets that fall within that grade level
if you're curious as to what those are oh and I have see someone made a comment
so our schools already using found sits now the school year can the continuum be purchased separately absolutely yep so
the continuum is available separately and actually if you use the promo code learn you get free shipping off our
website but yeah I know if you have a limited copy with everyone wanting to
use it yeah it's kind of nice to be able to have your your own copy but certainly yes you can get it separately
all right so let's just jump over to our next slide here now I wanted to
Reading Minilessons
highlight this reading mini-lessons because as I mentioned earlier this is one of the other instructional contexts
that is in found seminal classroom but the reason why I want to make the connection to it is that a lot of the
interactive read aloud books actually serve as the mentor text within the reading mini lessons and the reading
mini lessons you'll see on your screen here run from kindergarten to grade six anywhere from 150 lessons to over to 230
lessons depending on the grade level but these really grow out of the interactive read aloud so you may have read the
interactive read aloud as part of your interactive read aloud time and then you're revisiting let's say of reading
mini lesson that has to do with writing about reading and you may go back to
that interactive read aloud book it might suggest that as the mentor text that you use for that lesson so you
don't necessarily you're not rereading the whole interactive read aloud text but you're highlighting that piece
that's going to support that reading meaning lesson that you're doing with students and so they're organized into
four different umbrellas within reading many lessons so there's management
reading many lessons literary analysis strategies and skills and writing about reading and every mini lesson is links
to a mentor text so I just kind of wanted to highlight that because if you
have that resource you'll be able to then to see that how that connection works together so that kind of brings us
right back to kind of where we sort of started earlier and bringing us back to
that key piece of looking at interactive read aloud and how it really is that
that core and how it filters down into you know all other reading and writing
components that are happening in our classroom so it's really that foundational piece and really important
for all students to be able to have opportunities to be a part of interactive read aloud so just wanted to
make sure that I came back and highlighted that and just in case anyone has a question about some of those
orange or yellow dots that appear in some of the the text bar the squares are rectangles
on your screen those are just opportunities for phonics spelling and
word study to be built into that instructional context so you may have
been studying something in in your phonics spelling word study lesson and you're able to revisit that principle or
that could be something to do with prefixes or something that might show up
in interactive read aloud there might be a natural way to include that into your interactive read aloud and make those
connections for the students so that's why there is just those bullets those
circle bullets within some of those other instructional contexts just so that like I said you can revisit funnik
spelling word study not just on in its own instructional context but in many others as it carries over and integrates
into those so those other pieces alright
Upcoming Webinars
so I'm gonna open it up to questions as I do I'm just going to put this slide on
the screen just to kind of let you know that we do have a few other webinars we've just at newly added some webinars
I believe they just went up this week so again if you go to that link that so again provided in the chat box you can
sign up for some of the other ones we've just added for the other instructional context but we do have two more coming
up so please feel free to sign up for those if you'd like and just a couple of
other things before we get to questions as I mentioned that link will get you to the digital sampler if you want to
Digital Sampler
receive a hardcopy sampler I will put up our reps contact information for your
territory in just a second you can always reach out to them and they would gladly be able to send you a print copy
of the sampler so you could just let them know that that's what you're looking for obviously I know at this point in time
you probably aren't able to actually physically meet with anyone and look at any of the samples in more depth if
you're hoping to do that but like I said you can always meet virtually with one
of our reps they'd be happy to share some samples with you and what those look like I would encourage you though to join the
fountain Symphony illiteracy community if you haven't already done so it is free you can just go on to fountain
Finnell calm there's lots of great stuff on there and lots of great tools that
you can use and that you have access to so you just need to sign up and then all
those resources become free anything from study guides for some of their professional books to webinars that they
have on there and other resources in their resource library so if you do want
Contact Information
to reach out to one of the reps in your area for a sample or or any other questions that you have after today
their contact information is on the screen so feel free to connect with them
and like I said they'd be happy to to help you out
and so if there's any questions feel free to type them in the chat box and I'd be happy to do my best to answer
them again before you go this evening I
would like to thank you for your time today and joining me as we walk through interactive read aloud I know everyone's
doing the best they can given the situation that we're currently in so I really appreciate that you were able to
take time out of your day to to join us have a great weekend thank you