As part of my graduate studies, I am working on putting together a reference notebook for the undergraduate future teachers to have as a resource in their classroom. Remember, this notebook is aimed at the lower grades, K, 1 or 2. So far I have the following in the example notebook:
- List of DRA / Fountas and Pinnell and AR reading Level comparisons
- Uppercase/Lower case letter recognition sheet (Fountas and Pinnell)
- List of the most common 100 High-Frequency Words (Fountas and Pinnell)
- Blank Running Record Form
- A coding Running Records Cheat Sheet (list of all the coding marks) (Fountas and Pinnell)
- Guide for Observing and Noting Reading Behaviors (Fountas and Pinnell)
- Prompts to Support the Use of Processing Strategies
- List of Processing Strategies
- Guided Reading Lesson Plan Template
- Blank Paper for anecdotal notes
I am being very selective in what I include because I don’t want to overwhelm them with too much information. Baby steps!