Candidates use foundational knowledge to design literacy curricula to meet needs of learners, especially those who experience difficulty with literacy; design, implement, and evaluate small-group and individual evidence-based literacy instruction for learners; collaborate with teachers to implement effective literacy practices.

Classroom Modeling

This artifact is when I was able to model two different lessons for two different teachers, and in different capacities. One lesson was a small guided reading group in kindergarten, and the other was for an individualized lesson for a third grader.

Individualized Lesson Plan: Emergent Reader

This artifact is an individualized lesson plan from when I was working with an emergent reader. In this plan, we focused on alphabet recognition and beginning sounds, phonological awareness, and oral language development.

Rationale:

The artifacts of classroom modeling and an emergent reader lesson plan are serving as a representation of this standard, curriculum and instruction. Effective curriculum and instruction is reliant on evidence-based information and strategies. Also, the role of a literacy specialist is to collaborate with other professionals in order to ensure best practices. Through the assignment of classroom modeling, I was able to “collaborate with and coach school-based educators in developing, implementing, and evaluating literacy instructional practices and curriculum” (ILA 2.4). Also, in preparing for these modeling lessons, I had to “select, adapt, teach, and evaluate evidence-based” instruction that is “explicit, intense, and provides adequate scaffolding to meet the literacy needs of individual and small groups of students…who experience difficulty with reading and writing” (ILA 2.3). Also, throughout the courses, working with individual students and tutoring them, I was able to develop a plan that required me to “design, select, adapt, teach, and evaluate evidence-based instructional approaches” (ILA 2.2) that would target the specific needs of that student.