Opener

  • Review meeting norms

  • Share celebrations

Discussion

  • Take a look at the list of prerequisite skills. Do your students have these skills and are they ready to engage in the one-minute activities? 

    • If your answer is no, how can you incorporate intervention and the activities in levels H, I, and J into your instruction to build these missing skills?

  • Take a moment to familiarize yourselves with Appendix D. How can this list be of use to you for intervention planning?

  • Take a moment to review the vocabulary of Mapping. Is everyone familiar with all these terms? Take time to look up any unfamiliar words in the glossary and discuss their meaning as a group.

Activity

Have participants decide as a group what strategies listed below (list under Next Steps) to explore deeper during the book study meeting (choose two or three or however many you think you will have time to explore as a group). Make sure teachers understand the “why” behind these strategies and their learning outcomes. Then plan to watch the demo videos in the module together and identify a strategy or two to implement in the classroom with individual (or team) coaching support. 

*If you choose to focus on Mapping Irregular Words, during the book study meeting, explore the  resources in the Meeting 9.1 Resources folder and videos for Really Great Reading and the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI).

Select one or two strategies from the list below to implement in the classroom and for the next meeting be ready to debrief how it went. These activities can be used to reinforce the word study portion of a literacy block.

Next Steps

Select one or two strategies to implement in the classroom and for the next meeting be ready to debrief how it went. These activities can be used to reinforce the word study portion of a literacy block (Use as a starting point and adjust to target specific student needs).

Note: This activity is to allow teachers to become familiar with these instructional strategies. The above activities may demand further coaching for full successful implementation. 

  1. Teach Students the Vocabulary of Mapping p. 54 Manual (terms grapheme and phoneme are important to be able to facilitate the next several activities.)

  2. Phoneme to Grapheme Mapping Technique p. 54 Manual

  3. Teach Students to Map Rime Units p. 55 Manual  Explicitly teach the term rime unit and understand what they are. Practice phoneme deletion and substitution with rime units. See Appendix F. Long term goal is to map rime units in long-term memory.

  4. Introducing a New Word (video 21:48) p. 57 Manual  - Use this technique when a student gets stuck on a word.

  5. Use Look Alike Words p. 57 Manual

  6. *Mapping Irregular Words  (video 7:36) Manual p. 58 You may want to use the Heartword Method of Mapping Irregular Words.  

    1. Resources can be found Really Great Reading website for Heart Word Magic (see link in Meeting 9.1 Resources folder)

    2. Also, UFLI has Heart Word printables (see in Meeting 9.1 Resources folder)

  7. Direct Mapping (video 21:48) p. 58-59 Manual 

    1. You may also want to access information from the book by Kathryn Grace (this is an additional book that would need to be purchased. This book can also be used as a spelling program. This is not required to facilitate this meeting) – Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping (see link in Meeting 9.1 Resources folder).

  8. Backward Decoding (video 21:48) p. 60-61 Manual  - Helpful for students to know and be able to apply onset-rime for individual syllables and to know syllable types.

  9. Highlight Rime Units and Syllables in Words p. 61-62 Manual

  10. Use Oral Spelling to Reinforce Mapping (video 1:13)  p. 62 Manual

  11. Oral Decoding Identifying Orally Spelled Words p. 62 – This could be done in addition to phonemic awareness skills as a warmup to a lesson.

  12.  Nonsense Words  (video 4:05) There is a section on using nonsense words pp. 63-64.  Discuss how nonsense words will be used in the classroom, how often, and why.

  13. Word Structure Analysis  (video 14:47) p. 65 Manual

  14.  Making /Breaking Words p. 65 Manual

  15. Spacey Letters Approach  (video 16:53) p. 68 Manual

  16. The Linked Words Approach  (video 17:45)p. 68 Manual



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