How to Make a Literacy Tool Kit
Teaching reading requires extensive knowledge and purposeful planning. Create a literacy tool kit, using a simple, convenient filing system, to give yourself easy access to the materials you need to best instruct your students. Go through your files, organize the information you have and look for new information to help you improve your teaching. Keep all of this material in one place and add to it and adjust it to improve it.
Instructions
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Place in the storage file box dividers labeled assessments, teacher resources and state standards.
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Include literacy assessments in the tool kit. The assessments should include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. These assessments are available so that teachers can pinpoint students' needs for extra help. File the assessments under the assessments tab in the file box.
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Gather lesson plans that have worked for colleagues, along with lesson plans you have found online or elsewhere, or created. Keep these so that you can implement them each year. Add to and adjust them to improve them each time you teach. File them under the teacher resource section. Include information such as research into learning styles in the classroom or any other teaching strategies you come across.
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Copy the standards for your state in reading, math and language. Become familiar with them for your grade level and teach to them. Place them in the file under state standards. Include the state standards for the grade level your class will be entering the following year. For example, if you teach third grade, obtain a copy of the fourth-grade standards to use in challenging higher-achieving students.
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