Ep. 140: K-2 Literacy Block Deep Dive

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In today’s episode, we talk with a teacher and interventionist from Blount County, TN, Erin Metz. She provides an in depth walkthrough of her district’s K-2 instructional block time. She’ll share her strategic approach to working with students and teachers during small group instructional time - modeling how to use this time to reinforce accuracy, automaticity, build vocabulary and knowledge in order to solidify comprehension, and more. 

Resources

• Erin Metz Small Group Time YouTube Video
• Beverly Tyner’s Lesson Plans
• Great Minds Wit & Wisdom ELA and Geodes
• Wilson Language Fundations
• Heggerty Phonemic Awareness 
• ILA Maximizing Small Group Reading Instruction 

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