Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum

Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum

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Session 2

Before You Watch

Analyze the Video

Extend Your Knowledge

Put It Into Practice

Reflect on Your Learning

What Did You Learn?

Create a Literacy Practices Portfolio

Fluency and Word Study.

Create a Literacy Practices Portfolio


If you are taking this workshop for credit, continue constructing your portfolio of instructional practices. Your portfolio for this workshop will include the following :

  • current practices in place in your classroom
  • changes you would like to make
  • a description of one change you have implemented
  • evidence of student learning

1. Current practices

Include your Fluency and Word Study Chart from What Do You Do? Then, think about your present literacy instruction. Write the answers to these questions.

  • Fluency
    • How do you assess your students' fluency?
    • How do you help students develop greater fluency?
  • Word Analysis
    • What kind of word analysis instruction do you provide?
    • In what classroom context(s) do you provide this?
  • Vocabulary
    • How do you determine your students' vocabulary strengths and needs?
    • How do you decide which vocabulary words to teach?
    • Describe your instructional cycle. How many vocabulary words do you teach and how many days/activities do you provide to ensure deep learning? Describe the activities you provide for students each cycle.
    • How do you provide practice in correct usage of vocabulary previously taught?
    • How do you assess long-term use of the words taught?

2. Changes you would like to make

Include your written response from What Did You Learn?

3. One change you have implemented

a. Make a change


b. Reflect on the change


4. Evidence of student learning

In this section of your portfolio, you will submit evidence documenting student learning. Select one student and describe his/her performance in fluency, word analysis, or vocabulary. What did you do to scaffold instruction for this student? Include two to three performance samples and documentation of the support provided for each. How will you continue to scaffold this student's fluency or word study? Listed below are possible pieces of evidence:

  • a tape recording of oral reading before and after practice
  • timed running records of oral reading
  • an analysis of running record (evidence of strategies to chunk words into meaningful parts)
  • anecdotal record of targeted vocabulary used in an oral discussion
  • student performance samples using targeted vocabulary words

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