The Teachers' Guide to the Four Blocks

By summarizing each of the Four Blocks, steps for implementation in the classroom, and a variety of student activities, this book explains how teachers can help all children become better readers and writers. Supports the Four-Blocks Literacy Model.

Overview

2

(4)

Sample Day in a Four-Blocks Classroom

4

(16)

Opening

4

(1)

The Guided Reading Block

4

(3)

The Working with Words Block

7

(7)

The Writing Block

14

(3)

The Self-Selected Reading Block

17

(1)

Daily Summary and School-Home Connection

18

(1)

Centers

19

(1)

The Self-Selected Reading Block

20

(22)

Teacher Read-Aloud

22

(4)

Children Read and Conference with the Teacher

26

(2)

Variations in How Children Read

28

(1)

Conference Variations

29

(5)

Sharing Variations

34

(1)

Making the Self-Selected Reading Block Multilevel

35

(1)

Summary of the Self-Selected Reading Block

36

(6)

A Typical Week in the Self-Selected Reading Block

37

(4)

Teacher's Checklist for Self-Selected Reading

41

(1)

The Guided Reading Block

42

(44)

Reading Variations

46

(20)

Choral Reading

46

(1)

Echo Reading

46

(1)

Shared Reading

46

(8)

Partner Reading

54

(2)

Coaching Groups: Small, Flexible Groups

56

(1)

Three-Ring Circus

57

(1)

``Book Club'' Groups

58

(4)

Everyone Read To (ERT)

62

(2)

Sticky Note Reading

64

(2)

Before-And After-Reading Variations

66

(10)

Picture Walks

66

(1)

Predictions

67

(1)

KWL's

68

(2)

Graphic Organiers

70

(3)

``Doing'' the Book

73

(2)

Writing Connected to Reading

75

(1)

Making the Guided Reading Block Multilevel

76

(2)

Summary of the Guided Reading Block

78

(8)

A Typical Week in the Guided Reading Block

79

(6)

Teacher's Checklist for Guided Reading

85

(1)

The Writing Block

86

(36)

Mini-Lesson---Teacher Writing

87

(1)

Children Writing and Teacher Conferencing

87

(1)

Sharing

87

(1)

Variations within the Writing Block

88

(5)

``Driting''

88

(2)

The Half-and-Half Format

90

(1)

Writing, Revising/Editing, and Publishing

91

(2)

A Variety of Mini-Lessons

93

(13)

Choosing a Topic

95

(2)

What To Do When You Can't Spell a Word

97

(1)

Adding On to a Piece

98

(2)

Editing Checklist: Capitalization and Punctuation

100

(2)

Parts of Speech

102

(2)

Revising and Editing

104

(2)

Focused Writing Weeks

106

(7)

Letters---Focused Writing

106

(4)

Reports---Focused Writing

110

(3)

Making the Writing Block Multilevel

113

(3)

Summary of the Writing Block

116

(6)

A Typical Week in the Writing Block

117

(4)

Teacher's Checklist for the Writing Block

121

(1)

The Working with Words Block

122

(47)

Word Walls

123

(13)

Doing a Word Wall

123

(2)

On-the-Back Word Wall Activities

125

(5)

Word Wall Variations Across Grade Levels

130

(6)

Phonics and Spelling

136

(25)

Rounding Up the Rhymes

138

(4)

Making Words

142

(6)

Guess the Covered Word

148

(1)

Using Words You Know

149

(2)

Reading/Writing Rhymes

151

(8)

Decoding and Spelling Variations

159

(2)

Making the Working with Words Block Multilevel

161

(3)

Summary of the Working with Words Block

164

(5)

A Typical Week in the Working with Words Block

165

(3)

Teacher's Checklist for the Working with Words Block

168

(1)

Questions

169

(22)

References

191

(3)

Teacher Comments

194

(5)

Reproducible Pages

199

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The Teachers' Guide to the Four Blocks

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