Intro so welcome again and thank you for joining us for the fountains and panel classroom interactive read aloud webinar um just to kind of give you a quick agenda of our time together today we are going to explore fountains and pineal classroom and just quickly kind of go over some of the instructional contexts that are that make up that resource and then what we'll do is we'll really dig into interactive read aloud so we'll look at how it's made up and um composed inside of found something classroom and talk a little bit about what is what is interactive read aloud and then we're gonna actually jump in quickly to the literacy continuum just to kind of uh let you see how those those resources work together and the coherence between the two and then from there uh we're actually going to look at a sample lesson from interactive reload so you can kind of get a sense of the way it's designed and and set up and like i said we will pause for some questions at the end but if you have any as they as the webinar we go through the webinar please feel free to post them in the chat box so again thanks for joining and thanks for taking time out of your schedule to be here all right so um i'm sure probably many INSTRUCTIONAL CONTEXTS of you have heard a lot about found some panel classroom it's a fairly new uh resource and uh you'll see that it's made up of many instructional contexts and they are actually all packaged individually so depending on the goals and the things that you're working at your school you may have already purchased uh one or possibly more of the instructional contacts they do run from pre-k to six so some of the instructional contexts actually start in pre-k and some of them work their way all the way up to grade six so just depending on the different instructional context but what you'll notice is that they are actually all work together in a coherent way and they they really offer students many opportunities to engage in uh complex age-appropriate texts in um in a variety of settings so some of these instructional contexts are whole group some are small group and some are independent but um like i said depending on the goals of your school's working on you can make it work and and flexibly look at what's gonna best support the needs of of your school and and your school division so like i said our focus today though will be on interactive read aloud so you'll see that that's the first tile on the screen and then from there it's shared reading so of course during this instructional context there's a lot of teacher support as students process the text they're engaging in the text with the teacher and we're really just trying to stretch their their thinking beyond possibly a book that they may be able to read on their own from there reading mini lessons is the next one you'll see on your screen and this is an opportunity to deliver whole class short mini lessons and you'll you'll notice today that i will talk a little bit about reading mini lessons a couple of times throughout our time together just because the interactive read-alouds and often the shared reading books are the mentor texts that you can use to support the reading mini lessons phonics spelling and word study is is next to that and uh here obviously it's an opportunity for students to learn about how language works and really develop as as readers and and writers guided reading is the next one from there so again that's opportunity for small group instruction during this time and uh really getting students to be read challenging texts but again with with some teacher support book clubs so this is a great opportunity for students to choose their reading based on their interests and there's a variety of genres that come in in the book clubs at the various grade levels and then interactive or sorry independent reading is the last one on your to the right of your screen and uh that's an opportunity for students again here they have chance to self-select text and really to just build their their identity as a reader so those are the instructional contacts that make up found some panel classroom and you'll see that on the screen right now there is a web page that you can go to so that's where you can actually download some virtual samplers so you'll be able to see the the sample lesson i'll walk through today on there but you can also go on there and download uh samplers from any of the instructional contacts or you can download them by grade level so at the top of your screen you'll see a little book icon kind of to the left of your screen and and on there is where you'll be able to go and uh click on the virtual samplers that you want more information on all right so let's dive right into interactive read aloud INTERACTIVE READ-ALOUD so what you'll notice is interactive read aloud is really that opportunity for students to engage in well discussion and inquiry about books it's also an opportunity for students to have a chance to hear and see what fluent and expressive reading sounds like because as the teachers reading the text they're they're modeling those things they're also modeling how we think and talk about text to really deepen our comprehension uh the nice thing about interactive read aloud is that it is really an opportunity for students knowledge on different topics uh create reference points because they're going to be uh looking at connections among different texts within a text set and i will talk to you about that in just a few minutes because that is something in found something classroom that is uh really unique as the way that they have the uh interactive read-alouds organized and as i mentioned just before it's also an opportunity to use these interactive read alouds as mentor texts for writing or for other reading or reading mini lessons that are happening in the classroom so it's really that foundation and that opportunity to build a community of learners in the classroom and really get students thinking and talking about texts and using that academic language another opportunity that presents itself through interactive read aloud is for students to develop a common language and a shared knowledge of books that um that they read throughout the year or that the teachers reading throughout the year and the students are engaging with and you'll see in a couple slides here how it really connects to all the other instructional contacts all right so uh in fountains and panel classroom the way interactive read-alouds are organized is there's 120 titles uh in from pre-k to grade 6 and there's also a lesson folder that goes with each title and then also an inquiry overview card that goes with it so you'll you'll get a chance to see what these lesson folders and these uh inquiry overview cards look like in just a few minutes but one of the things um that i really want to make sure that you're aware of is that among those 120 titles um that are there per grade they're actually organized in text sets so there's 25 text sets and um within there there's about four to six books per text set and they all all those books within that text set um are grouped by an essential question or a big understanding and so you'll see that in the sample lesson how they're organized and so that students can really start to make connections um among the books that are part of those text sets but and also uh to other books that they're reading in the classroom the other thing that's part of interactive read aloud is a collection guide so it just provides a brief overview of interactive read aloud and just some helpful information and then there's also the online resources so the online resources is um it also has the the lesson folders you get the hard copy of but there's also a pdf copy on the online resources so you have access to that there's also videos on there of interactive read aloud in action some general resources some parent letters and things like that that can really be helpful as you make your way through that instructional context and all of those are available once you purchase you get an access code to go on and access all those online pieces okay so a little bit about you know interactive read aloud like i said how it's organized how it looks what's happening during that time so during interactive read aloud it's about 15 minutes of whole group instruction so remember the teacher's the one reading the students are engaging in the thinking and the understanding and having conversations with their peers and with the teacher and so both the uh reader and the listeners are really actively engaging and processing the language the ideas that are shared and the meaning of the text so as i mentioned just before it's really that opportunity to build that community of learners and the texts are organized so that um there's some intentional teaching that's happening and they're they're selected for a purpose and for a reason it's not just a random book and because the text sets are organized in a way that students are able to make connections they start to see kind of that purpose behind you know why they're reading that how it connects to the other books that they're reading and really start to build that larger understanding so before we look at a sample lesson i actually want to jump into the literacy continuum and the reason why i want to do that is you'll be able to see on the sample lesson the way that the literacy continuum is weaved in to the lessons now the literacy continuum is really the foundation of fountain penal classroom it's really that road map and it's broken down into eight continua which you'll see on the right of your screen listed there and it describes specific behaviors and understandings to notice teach and support um during each of these eight continua it also provides support in helping the teacher select text with intention and purpose based on the goals that you've decided that you want to work on with your students so lots of great information in this resource and this tool that you can use you may be familiar with it or you may already be using it if you have benchmark assessment um third edition this is actually in that box uh so it may be something that you've already been using in your classroom or you your school may have purchased it separately and maybe you have it that way as well but what you'll notice is all those eight continua they're actually organized by grade level except for the very last one guided reading and that's actually organized by reading level but um like i said of course interactive read aloud whoops um is one of the continuum that's mentioned in there so as a teacher you can look at what at your grade level what are some um characteristics of of text at that grade level and thinking about the time the types of text you're going to want to select based on the goals that you're working on so lots of really really good information in here and like i said you'll be able to see in a sample lesson how it takes the information from the continuum and weaves it in and and bases the lesson on the goals from the literacy continuum and the whole idea too is that it's really about supporting responsive teaching so it does provide a description about what proficient readers and writers do and language users do and know and what we would hope that they would be able to accomplish at the end of that grade level but it also gives us an opportunity to think about where are those students at and what next steps are going to be important to move them forward in their learning so let's kind of take a quick peek at what interactive read aloud looks like inside the literacy continuum so what you'll see here is here's some of the goals and behaviors that we would notice teach and support and again these are listed by grade level so here we'll kind of just zoom in and you can see that in a little bit a little bit easier what you'll notice too is uh for example on these goals and as well as all the goals within the literacy continuum in all the different uh areas they're actually they always have bullet colored coated bullets in front of them so anything that has a blue circle is thinking within the text anything that is a green diamond is thinking beyond the text and anything with a purple square is thinking about the text and sometimes some of those bullets will be read as well and that's just to let you know that anything that's ever read that behavior or understanding is newly introduced at that grade level or at that reading level if you're looking at the guided reading section so what you'll what you'll notice is if you're familiar with that language of thinking within beyond and about the text that color-coded system works with this system of strategic actions wheel so anything that's going to be green and thinking beyond the text is then broken down into like inferring synthesizing and so on so again it really allows us to think about our students where they're at as learners where they might require some more support and teaching and then using this resource to help us select those goals and these system of strategic actions are really those you know those actions that readers we want them to be engaging and using as they construct meaning and process text so oftentimes you know many of these are going on at once as they're reading and we really want to just look at those precise behaviors and look at how we can support them best so i mentioned already a little bit about responsive teaching but when you actually look at this visual you'll be able to kind of see interactive read aloud at the top there is really that core piece so it's really um readers and writers are engaging with each other and with the teachers but we're really getting students to be thinking and talking and listening to books developing your love of reading and no matter what level a student is reading at they can all be a part of interactive read aloud because remember the teacher is the one doing the reading so it's really that opportunity for them to build their understanding their language and have those conversations with their peers without them making their way through the reading the teachers stopping as well to engage them in comfort uh conversations and to really make sure that they're getting a good understanding of the book and the text and again those key systems of strategic actions and those behaviors and understandings that are going to be important for them to transfer into other reading and writing that you're going to do so you will see how interactive read aloud connects to all those other things reading mini lessons shared reading writing and all those pieces as well as phonics and word study it's really that core that you know key piece to literacy instruction now you will notice on here that obviously as i mentioned earlier that some of these instructional contexts take place as whole group some are small groups some are individual you'll also notice that phonics spelling and word study is on the far right and the orange anything with writing is in yellow and reading is in a blue and purpley color there you'll also notice that some of the boxes actually have a circle bullet in them just to kind of highlight that word study can take place in not just phonics and word study lessons but also in all of these other instructional contexts so a great way for us to connect the instructional context not just have them taking place individually but students again transferring that thinking and that learning into other opportunities within their literacy time so what we're going to do now is we're actually going to look at uh some of the resources that come in interactive reload what i mentioned at the top is um that the way that the texts are organized are in text sets and the reason why they have this they do they do this is that those books then uh really are centered around an essential question or a big idea it allows for students to connect their their thinking and their discussions about text not just to you know personal connections and the world but also to other texts and that's the opportunities they have by organizing this by tech set so they are very uh intentionally organized and purposefully organized so that um students can make those connections so you'll see on this one for example this one is finding beauty in the world around you so that is the tech set you'll notice that for this particular one there are five books and um we're gonna take a little bit of a closer look at um SAMPLE TEXT SET GRADE 2 that overview card so this is that overview card remember at this top i mentioned those overview inquiry cards so this is what a sample one would look like and this is this comes from the grade 2 sampler so what you'll notice here is those are the texts that are part of the text set at the top there and you'll notice that these are popular trade books so you may have read some of these before what you'll see here is the about this text set so this is important information uh to just familiarize yourself with the text set and also to just give you an explanation about how are these books connected to one another uh suggestions of titles that uh come from other parts of found something classroom so sometimes it will reference like a shared reading book in this section you'll see here that they've referenced a few other interactive read aloud books in this section so again we can see how this book may also not just work with this text set but also additional books that are part of this resource and then from there you'll see the thinking across the books so this is an opportunity for um students to or for you to think about how students can notice patterns discuss similarities and differences and make connections as they think across different books and then from here you'll be able to see [Music] the big ideas and the essential questions and so those are always on that overview card and these are these big underlying themes or big ideas that they're going to be hearing about and discussing as in for example in this text set throughout those five books that the that the teacher will be reading oh and i think we have a question oh so if the teacher is reading a book which has grade five content how does this help the students who are reading at grade one well remember the teacher is the one doing the reading so um the whole idea is that we're gonna stop at different points throughout the book we're gonna have conversations the students uh are not gonna be so much obviously focused on decoding because they're not the ones that are reading the teachers taking that pressure off and doing the reading for them but they can still uh take part in those discussions about those underlying themes or those big ideas that are happening so it's a great way for students to have a chance to just think about the reading and deepen their comprehension without the decoding part of the book taking place and remember it is highly supported by the teachers so they're able to knowing what they know about those students where might be good points to stop and have some discussion about what you're reading you'll see that there's many suggestions provided about what that could look like within each book so again remember this is this overview inquiry card that um brings together those five books within this text set so on the next page of the overview inquiry card you'll see that there's a section about asking questions and i'll just zoom in on that for you so these are some open-ended questions about the big ideas again just starting to get students to really think about some inquiry or research that they may want to explore so there's always open-ended questions provided here that you can use with the students and then from there you'll see some suggested projects for exploration so these are some um ideas about how we're going to get students to really dig a little bit deeper and further explore some of those big ideas and they may be doing these things uh in in groups they could be doing them independently and some of the projects are are best completed at the end of the text set while other ones you may decide to do as you're reading through the text set because remember it may take you a couple of weeks to get get through that particular text set okay so that's what the overview inquiry card looks like now what you'll notice is i'm going to actually show you a sample from one of those books that is in that text set so we just looked at that text set and one of the important one of the books in particular was last stop on market street so you're gonna get a sense again this comes from grade two about what the lesson folders with for each book looks like so what you'll see is obviously there's some materials that you're gonna need to uh carry out this lesson so that's always identified on that first page and i'll just give you a sense of again the book what books uh or part of that text set any other supplies you might need such here they you know they're referencing that you might need some chart paper so again that's just some background information for you and i will tell you too that uh what you'll notice is this is as we look through this lesson this isn't a script but it's really a tool to support teachers about what might be some suggestions that they could use and help you make some decisions but of course you're the one working with the students and you know them best so there's always lots of suggestions provided but it's really up to you to decide what's going to best meet the needs of the students that you're working with i will tell you too that the lessons are four pages in format so you'll be able to see all four pages as we go through this and uh they all have that consistent lesson structure so that's the nice thing is that if you have other books that you'd like to bring into this text set that you have access to you can use this same lesson structure to do that the other thing that you'll notice is there's always a summary provided so again some important information for the teacher to know ahead of time and then the other thing that it does is it always provides the messages to obviously these are those big ideas that we want students to be able to understand or take away from the book so it's listed there for the teachers they have that information now sometimes there's more than one big idea um in the book and so that's why they have it they're listed as um as messages and not just a message and then from there you'll notice that just below that is the goals and one of the things that you'll notice here is it is connected back to the literacy continuum so that is where the goals for the lesson come from now obviously these are some suggested goals you can consider these you may decide to go with some other goals and so that's why you have access to the literacy continuum so that you can dip back into that resource and decide what might work again or be responsive to the needs of the students that you're working with you'll notice that they're organized here by inquiry comprehension communication and vocabulary and then from there you will see that there's some information about the book this is helpful information for the teacher it always provides some information on the genre the the how the book works and the structure of it and any other important characteristics so these there may be some important characteristics on here that you want to draw students attention to before or after reading or some things that you might feel may present a challenge to the students that you're working with and if that's the case then what you can do is uh make sure that maybe you um include some of that or talk about it in the introduction of the book when you're sharing that with the students so let's go on to the second page of the lesson folder all right so what is happening here is obviously there's some suggestions about how you may want to introduce the text and uh some information um for you to select from some of these will have opportunities for students to stop and share their thinking and interact with their peers and that's always just indicated by a circle bullet in that section so again this is really short because the teacher is the one doing the reading we keep this part really short but it's an opportunity for us to engage the students in the text that we're about to to read with them and then the next section from there obviously we're going to do some of the reading there's some suggestions of where you may want to stop during the reading of the text and engage the students in some of that thinking so again not a script but suggestions it then this opportunity is a brief conversation with students so when we have them all coming to a central place in our classroom to do an interactive read-aloud that's the great thing about them engaging in conversation they can just turn to their elbow partner and have a quick conversation about what that looks like obviously during these times of remote teaching that's going to look a little bit different maybe they're sharing their thinking in a chat or other ways that they're able to share that putting some words on a slide or whatever it might be so uh again during this time of uh of remote teaching and the way things have turned we may have to just make this look a little bit different than it would look when students are working with us closely in the classroom discuss the text so during this time what you'll notice is obviously there is um some suggestions of questions that uh discussion suggestions that we may want to engage with with the students um you'll notice that just below that there is the key understandings organized by within beyond and about the text so these are some of the key understandings that we might be looking for or uh prompting and talking with students about so that we're hoping that they come away with these key understandings and observing whether they're able to comprehend some of that information to come up with these key ideas so again it goes back to that system of strategic actions wheel and then from there we have students uh respond to the text so you may choose them to have respond to the text and there again lots of suggestions a variety of forms from things that they could be uh doing from art to writing if they're doing some writing it always suggests whether it's you know interactive writing independent writing or shared writing so for our example today you'll see that they're suggesting shared writing there's always a visual as to what that response could look like and you'll also notice there's connections too on this one to social studies and community service the other thing that i know it's a little bit hard to see on your screen so if you download the virtual sampler you'll be able to see it in a little bit more detail but as you go through the lessons there's always suggestions for modifying or supporting english learners as they process the text so there is um we want of course we want them to provide them with language to participate in discussions or respond to the text that they're reading so the the supports for english learners are specific to each lesson folder so they're just not general things you'll notice that for this one here it's they're using sentence frames that align specifically to this book and what you'll notice is that there's those supports in all of the sections of interactive read aloud from uh thinking about introducing the text to you know helping uh when you're reading the text and discussing the text what might be some of those supports that we want to make sure we have in place for english learners or other learners in our classroom and then from there you'll notice that revisit the text so i'm just going to zoom in on that for you so you may want to reread the text or revisit it at a later time or maybe even a section of it more as of a close reading that you may want to come back to a particular page or or section and maybe help students really look at it uh in a different way or revisit a particular part for and concentrate on something specific with comprehension or language or vocabulary it could be something even with book and print features so again lots of suggestions here and uh when we come back and maybe do a close reading like i said it may just be a section or a page that we're really coming back to to revisit and and again it can be at a later time not necessarily uh after you do that first read through but really it's a chance for the teacher to make decisions based on what they're observing in the conversations that they're hearing from the students you can decide um from these suggestions what's going to work best for you and then right below that just before the end of the lesson uh connect to other books or other and text sets so again some suggestions provided here about extending students thinking to other books that they may you may have already read in the text set or other books that are related by the same same big idea or topic and then the last piece on there is assess the learning and you'll notice again it links back to the goals of the lesson and the literacy continuum and this is just um an opportunity for us to think about and observe as students are having those conversations and sharing their thinking based on our observations maybe we're going to go back now and revisit a certain part of the text or there may be some of those goals that we wish to continue to work on with other texts that were we're working with so again just that information so the teacher can use that to guide what's going to happen in multiple readings or revisiting a section of this book or other books that you're going to read and again tied back to those goals of the lesson so that's a brief overview of a lesson folder within interactive read aloud what i want to just highlight is a few UNIVERSAL THEMES kind of key pieces that are important to think about as you um think a little bit more about interactive read aloud and how you're using it or continue to use it in your classroom or use it uh again in a remote environment and how that's going to look a little bit different based on the students needs and and how we can best support them during this time so i will provide you two in just a few slides here uh the fountain panel the link to our pearson canada site as well as a link to their blog just for some suggestions if you if you already have this instructional context and you're thinking about how do you make this work in a remote environment because the students are are not in classrooms there are some suggestions on there uh not just for uh interactive read aloud but also for their other instructional context so i'll put that up in just a minute but like i said there was a few things i want to cover just before we we jump over to questions the interactive read-aloud what you'll notice is um that there are universal themes and so you'll see here that this is the um students in in all grade levels here from pre-k all the way up to grade six are really looking at that idea of self-identity but what you'll notice is that it grows in sophistication as the students move up the grades so again they're coming back to that central idea and it's progressing as they move up the grades but an opportunity to see how how these tech sets are really intentionally planned and purposefully created and so it allows students to build on their understanding about what they know about self-identity from previous grades from the other texts that they've read and opportunities for example in this one to connect uh to themselves but also to the world exploring perspectives and you'll notice that in the interactive read-aloud books that there's really a lot of opportunity for students to build background knowledge and understanding from multiple perspectives as well as you'll see on here that there's a wide variety of genres that students are exposed to so lots of fiction non-fiction some of the text sets revolve around author studies some of the text sets other subject matter for example in grade one one of the tech sets is using numbers um there's other ones that look at living and working together in community celebrating diversity so again lots of opportunities to grow those themes into other subject areas with fiction and non-fiction books and then i think i spoke about this earlier but reading many lessons so if you have this resource you'll notice that in the reading mini lessons that many times the uh fpc interactive read-aloud books actually serve as mentor texts for the reading mini lessons so um if you don't have it or you have reading mini lessons but you don't yet have interactive read aloud there are other books that you can use to support the concept of the reading mini lesson but like i said if you have access to the reading mini lessons through fountain panel classroom you'll be able to use that book then to teach that reading mini lesson so there may just be a certain part you've already done let's say the interactive read aloud but there may be a certain part of the interactive read-aloud that's going to support the reading mini lesson and so you can just read that section as you're doing the reading mini lesson with the students because again these are these are opportunities for brief instruction but again for students to uh grow their system of strategic actions and develop as as readers and writers and language users i will tell you too just jumping back to um something i think i forgot to mention on the on the tech sets on just prior that there is a suggested sequence so like i said there's 25 text sets within each grade level so there's a suggested sequence you can decide to use that sequence or not use that sequence and and change it up but they've kind of built that sequence based on what you might want to uh topics you may want to explore earlier in the year um are obviously organized so that they happen earlier in the year um but you again can and can make that decision but this the suggested sequence you will find in the collection guide that comes with interactive read aloud so if you have any questions about you know what order do you go through it in you can look for those suggestions in there now if you do want to look at a print sampler if you don't have access to the virtual one you can always reach out to our pearson wraps they'd be happy to send you one and i'll put their contact information up in a bit but if you um want to go on and download the virtual one i'll put that web address up in just a second if you want any more information or would like to meet um to see other samples you can also reach out to the pearson reps and they would be happy to meet with you online and share with you what other information you would like i would highly encourage you if you haven't already done so to join the fountains and canal community there's lots of great information on there it is free to join they have webinars they have daily lit bits they also have updates on remote learning so if you are a fountain panel classroom user or any other fountain panel classroom resources that you may have access to or sorry not found somehow classroom but any other found some canal resources that you have access to so either classroom or lli or those pieces you can go on to their blog they are updating that every couple of days with ideas and suggestions on how to support students during this time and what they've done to provide resources for people who have purchased those resources and now to be able to use them in a remote environment so head over there you can find information we also have that information whoops on our website so if you go back to the website i put up at NEXT STEPS the beginning the and maybe so again you can post that again in the chat the pearson canada school dot ca fpc website we also have a lot of information on there that you can access and that will link you over to the fountain panel blog here is some contact information if you do need to reach out to a rep to see other samples or get a print sampler their contact information is up on the screen if you're at the district level you can reach out to the rep that's in your territory and they'll connect you with the account executive in your area and i do see that we have some questions multiple grades in one class so someone asked about that if you teach multiple grades in one class uh again you may want to look at some of the uh text set themes think about what might be most appropriate you may decide that you're going to go with um you know if it's a multi-grade classroom you need to decide to go with books that are going to work for the middle grade so if it's a three four five maybe you're going to go with a grade four again you may want to explore what some of those tech sets are think about where your students are at and what might be most important for them so a couple of things that could definitely weigh in on your decision for that but what you'll notice is that some of those themes are universal and because the teacher is the one uh doing the reading it's hot there's a high level of teacher support it is okay if it's not a book that's going to be at everyone's reading level and we know that that is possibly going to happen this may be a challenging text for some of the students in our class and that that's okay because the teacher's there to support the thinking the discussion the talking and the reading of the book oh and i think soyan answered about the recordings thanks for the feedback and hopefully you are able to get onto our website i will put that slide back up and then that way if you didn't get it down earlier so there's the slide with the website and you can go on there the pearson canada dot ca slash fpc to download those samplers and so you'll see that sample less than i did but any other grade level that you're looking at so that was from grade two so if you want something from grade six you can either download the interactive uh read aloud sampler or you can go by grade level for those upper grades going to want to go by grade level uh just because in the interactive read aloud sampler it likely the one that's posted on there only goes up to grade three but if you download the grade six sampler you'll see the sample interactive read aloud at those um at that that grade level and now i know our time's up and some of you have to jump off so again i want to thank you i know it's been an extremely challenging time in education these uh past couple of of weeks and months uh so thanks for taking time out of your day i'm happy to stay on here for a little while longer so if you want to hang around and ask some questions feel free to do that and and if not have a great rest of your day and we do have some other support webinars coming up so if you want to sign up for any of those uh you can go on to that url that's up on your screen and we have some office hour sessions for benchmark assessment lli as well as fpc so thanks again