Goals/Benefits Time/Structure Sample Lessons Routines Texts Assessment

 

Facilitator Notes

 

What routines do you use for transitions to and from Independent Reading?

Effective procedures for transitions give children ownership and save time that can be spent reading!  The kindergarten Classroom in Action clips below are excerpted from the Sample Lesson, Early Meaning Making, and the second grade clip is from Learn from Nonfiction.

 

 

Transition to IR:

Table Leaders

Transition to IR: Table Leaders (Kindergarten)

Video: Classroom in Action,

Transcript

Video:  Teacher Commentary,

Transcript

Irby DuBose, Kindergarten

Transition to Sharing:

Clean Up Song

Transition to Sharing: Clean Up Song (Kindergarten)

Video:  Classroom in Action,

Transcript

Video: Teacher Commentary,

Transcript

Irby DuBose, Kindergarten

 

 

Transitions (Grade 2)

Video: Classroom in Action,

Transcript

Christy Long, Grade 2