Connect with low-literate families: A three-tiered approach
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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts
This ReadWriteThink lesson involves giving children from low-literate families stories to read at home to enhance the home-school connection. Following Smith and Piper’s three-tier scaffolding model, the teacher prepares students to read the story unassisted, avoiding the possibility of placing low-literate caregivers in the potentially alienating position of having to act as literacy instructors; yet, the model still enables caregivers to celebrate their child’s achievement and to contribute their insight and understanding in ways that are most comfortable to them. This lesson includes links to student materials and to related websites.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
- Objective 2.01: Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for emergent readers.
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
- Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
- publishing non-print texts.
- discussing interpretations.
- recording personal responses.
Grade 2
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.03: Read aloud with fluency and expression any text appropriate for early independent readers.
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
- Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
- Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
- Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
- Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
- Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
- Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
- listening to and re-visiting stories
- discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
- discovering relationships.
- Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
