Comprehensive Literary Framework and Assessments

          "If the teachers are going to support their hardest-to-teach readers as they learn to build a reading process system, then the classroom environment must allow time for teachers to do just that." It is important for teachers to set up their classroom in a way that allows for their students to learn as much as possible. To do this they have to construct a literary framework that allows them to do a variety of activities with their students so that they can build their own reading process system. These activities include, read aloud, sharing reading, conferring with readers and assessing them.
           Reading aloud with your students is beneficial to all students, but especially to those who are struggling. Reading aloud to the students gives the teacher a chance to model their own reading process system and the strategies that they use to build that system. By modeling this the teacher is showing the students how they should build their system. It is helpful for children to watch how something is supposed to be done before they attempt it themselves.
           Shared reading is an interactive way to read with the students. "The teacher does the reading and encourages the children to join in on a refrain or some other known part of the text." Doing this type of activity will build the students confidence with reading. It is good for students to read familiar texts because it can support them as they transfer to reading other texts that they aren't familiar with.
            Conferring with readers is another large aspect of the literacy framework. Conferring with students give the teacher an opportunity to see where they students are at with their reading process system. It allows them to see each individuals system and what strategies they are using. Conferring can be paired with other assessments to track the students progress with their systems.
            Each of these aspects are equally important and depend on the others. It is important for teachers to focus on each of them. If one piece is left out the literacy framework becomes incomplete and the students aren't benefitting as much as they could be from the classroom environment. This is why it is so important to set up the framework so it gives you the opportunity to focus and teach each aspect.