Goals

At Cameron, You will learn:

What explicit instruction with modeling is. What explicit instruction with modeling looks & sounds like in your classrooms.

Explicit Instruction with Modeling

Turn and Talk
What do you THINK explicit instruction with modeling IS?

Explicit Instruction with Modeling Definition

the practice of deliberately demonstrating and bringing to learners conscious awareness those covert and invisible processes, understandings, knowledge, and skills over which they need to get control if they are to become effective readers.
(Cambourne, 1999, p. 126)

Explicit Instruction with Modeling

Non-Example
AMBIGUOUS instruction WITHOUT modeling Example EXPLICIT instruction WITH modeling

Explicit Instruction
Model and explain concepts & skills:
-Concretely and visibly
-multiple examples

Overlap and similarity in instructional procedures using:

-predictable, clear, consistent instructions

-known expectations
-familiar routines

What does EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION look like?

Modeling
Demonstrate task aloud
Follows a step-by-step procedure Use vocabulary specific to skill being taught Check for student understanding

What does MODELING look like in the classroom?

Explicit Instruction WITH Modeling

Provides review & extension
Relates to monitoring student understanding

Explicit Instruction with Modeling

What we should HEAR
Clear directions An instructional focus

Consistent modeling
Student Talk Multiple Examples

Explicit Instruction with Modeling

What we should SEE

Manipulatives
Visual aids and cues Multiple grouping formats Students engaged Teachers engaged Active participation

Brainstorming Time
For grades K-2, what will explicit instruction with modeling sound and look like within the 5 components of reading?
For grades 3-5, what will explicit instruction with modeling SOUND and LOOK like within the 5 components of reading?

Explicit Instruction with Modeling

Overall Take Away:
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in society. It is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman, and child can realize his or her full potential. -Kofi Annan International Literacy Day September 8, 1997

Apply What You Learned

1. How can you provide more EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION with MODELING in YOUR classroom?
2. What will it SOUND like? What will it LOOK like?

NEXT STEPS
Decide what part of your reading instruction you will choose to provide more explicit teaching in Choose at least 2 strategies you will practice implementing within the next 2 weeks