A balanced literacy approach addresses the diverse needs of students. Carefully designed instruction supports literacy skills progress along the developmental reading and writing stages. Last week, you created a Close Reading Activity for your literacy learner. This week, you implemented this Close Reading Activity. Reflect on your implementation by responding to the prompts below. Be sure to support your responses with information from specific Learning Resources in this course.
Submit a Reflective Essay that includes the following:
- An evaluation of the effectiveness of your Close Reading Activity. Explain whether the text you selected and the research-based instructional practices you used helped students to gain a deeper understanding and/or appreciation of the text. Also, include an explanation of specific student behaviors that helped you to monitor the progress of students.
- An explanation of how you encouraged the development of metacognition in your students and how you might improve your instructional practice in this area
- An explanation of the next steps you would consider for your intermediate literacy learners. What you might do differently in the future?
Complete your Reflection and finalize your lesson plan from Week 6 to submit this week. Your week 6 Instructional Plan will be placed in the appendix of your paper.
(Total assignment length: 5–8 pages [Reflective Essay: 3–5 pages + Lesson Plan 2–3 pages])
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