Teaching Story Structure

This week, the reading standard we were teaching was RL2.5 Story Structure. It was a review standard for us... we taught it back at the beginning of the year but felt we needed to review it.  We used our new mini-lessons and activities and they worked out GREAT!  Our class had such a good time with the activities and they really enjoyed the mentor texts.  We're working on getting some pictures posted so you can see them in action!

What we love most about using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework is that it forces us to know where our students are.  As teachers, we know what prior knowledge they SHOULD have, but this framework is built on the foundation of using a pre-assessment to guide instruction- so we can find out exactly what EACH student really does know. After we use a pre-assessment, we can adjust our instruction and differentiate to meet their exact needs and we don't have to waste time making them do activities designed to teach them skills they already have!  Isn't our time in precious enough???  With GRR, we can specifically target the "holes" in our students' knowledge and work to fill those in- without wasting time! We feel much more efficient as teachers and our students are learning exactly what they need to learn.  

Here's the link to the Bundle Pack of Mini-Lessons, Activities and Assessment if you want to use it with your class!

RL2.5 Story Structure Gradual Release Mini-Lesson, Activity & Assessment BUNDLE