Rochelle Lee Teacher Award Study Groups are school-based professional learning communities. Study groups develop a goal to guide their learning throughout the school year, and meet monthly to discuss instruction and push their practice to reach their goal. Learn more about Wacker Elementary School’s study group and what they learned about the components of a balanced literacy program.
School: Charles H. Wacker Elementary School
Text: Understanding Texts & Readers: Responsive Comprehension Instruction with Leveled Texts by Jennifer Serravallo
Study Group Leader: LaConya McKinney
Study Group Members: Caroline Cunningham, Crystal Carmichael, Danielle Washington, Isabella Morales
Goal: For teachers will learn that by increasing the joy of reading, it will be helpful and imperative to also prioritize comprehension by choosing an appropriate text for the students. (We also wanted to foster students’ love of reading by providing them with an appropriate text and numerous activities that engaged them and made reading fun!)
Per our multiple discussions throughout the year, we realized that our goal evolved from wanting to teach reading online effectively to becoming proficient with literary technology to improve our remote reading instruction.
Through several forms of literary technology, students were excited to have more interaction with each other and show their work to everyone instead of just listening to the teacher talk.
