Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction

A classroom that nurtures literacy is led by a teacher-facilitator who weaves literacy lessons involving speaking and listening, reading and writing, and viewing and representing for authentic purposes throughout all areas of the curriculum while providing students choice. The teacher can “motivate and support individual students” and “inspire students to be readers and writers.” Students in these classrooms use technology to learn as well as to communicate and spend time on self-selected reading. The teacher regularly uses formative and summative assessments to adjust instruction to meet the students’ instructional needs and interests, has good classroom management, and “encourage(s) self-regulated learning.” Readers in these classrooms are matched with texts and/or choose texts that are appropriate for them based on readability or interest. The teacher is adept at providing support and background knowledge as needed to facilitate comprehension or skill acquisition in a whole group, small group, or individually which helps create a nurturing learning community.
Motivation to read is high in a classroom that nurtures …show more content…
My students get excited about reading books about the concepts we are learning in science in differentiated instruction groups and they do demonstrate more confidence in class and better understanding on the science assessments. I need to learn more about how to fully incorporate CORI in my classroom. I read more about this online after reading Chapter 5 and I know I would have to get approval first since our literacy model would not support this type of