Reading Content Building Guides for PLCs – Literacy Coach Resource

Description

Build your teachers’ literacy content knowledge. These PLC reading content building guides help literacy coaches teach the essential concepts behind strong reading instruction.

These content building guides teach your teachers the essential things they need to know about reading concepts including genre, comprehension strategies, phonics, and more!

They work so well as a way to introduce new learning and get teachers talking about their background knowledge about topics during a PLC meeting. They’re also great for planning collaboratively and establishing shared knowledge and common language. 49 one page guides provide teachers with knowledge they need.

Included in this resource are five different content building guides for PLC teams.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Guide

Fiction Content Building Guide

Informational Text Content Building Guide

Reading Genre Content Building Guide

SOR Content Building Guide

Each collection of guides includes tools for instructional coaches or lead teachers:

• A process for planning collaboratively: six steps to creating plans together.
• Tips for using the content building guides to build knowledge for planning together

Reading Genre Content Building Guides:

17 one-page Content Building Guides: Reading Genres

• Fiction
• Folktales
• Fables
• Trickster Tales
• Myths
• Legends
• Tall Tales
• Fairy Tales
• Poetry
• Drama
• Informational Text
• Biographies
• Argumentative Text
• Persuasive Text
• Procedural Text
• Multimodal Text
• Digital Text

Reading Comprehension Strategies Guides:

9 one-page Content Building Guides: Comprehension Strategies

• Monitoring comprehension
• Accessing background knowledge
• Questioning
• Making connections
• Determining importance
• Visualizing
• Making inferences
• Making predictions
• Synthesizing

Fiction Content Building Guides:

7 one-page Content Building Guides: Fiction

• Fiction
• Plot
• Character
• Setting
• Figurative Language
• Theme
• Point of View

Informational Text Content Building Guides:

5 one-page Content Building Guides: Informational and Nonfiction Text

• Informational or Nonfiction Text
• Central ideas and supporting details or evidence
• Text features
• Text structures
• Fact/Opinion

SOR Content Building Guides:

11 one-page Content Building Guides: Skilled Reading

• Skilled reading
• Language comprehension
• Background knowledge
• Vocabulary
• Language structures
• Verbal reasoning
• Literacy knowledge
• Word recognition
• Phonological Awareness
• Decoding
• Sight Recognition

Each one also includes a blank, editable planning guide so you can build your own Content Building Guide to include the knowledge you need teachers to have for planning!