LITERACY COLLABORATIVE
Literacy Collaborative is a long-term professional development program designed to provide a comprehensive, school-wide approach to literacy instruction. The goal of this program is to raise the level of achievement for all students.
Michelle Dixon, trained literacy coach, assists the primary staff in learning how to teach for skills and strategies within the Literacy collaborative framework. Instruction is aligned with federal guidelines and state curriculum standards.
Implementation provides a dynamic framework for systematic instruction that is explicitly taught during literacy lessons. These lessons are designed to build connections between reading and writing.
The Literacy Collaborative Framework for literacy lessons consists of several elements that provide opportunities throughout the school day for reading and writing. Teachers provide direct, research-based instruction to guide students in acquiring strategies for maintaining fluency, text comprehension, and vocabulary development. Phonemic awareness and phonics instruction are provided as students engage in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Instruction moves from demonstration and explicit teaching, to guided practice, to independent problem solving.
