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Empowering Teachers Web
Resource:
Practical Solutions for Everyday
Instruction
Kimberly Russell
Randee Winterbottom
Florida Center for Reading Research
July 1, 2008
Session Objectives
Participants will…
 Learn to access and navigate the
Empowering Teachers Web Resource
 Become familiar with the content of the
Empowering Teachers web Resource
 Be able to use the Empowering Teachers
Web Resource to enhance instructional
practices
Empowering Teachers Web Resource: Practical Solutions for Everyday Instruction
Worksheet
Sample Question
As a principal, you recently hired three new Kindergarten teachers, two have alternative certification and one is a first
year teacher. All of these teachers would benefit from more information about the components of reading. Where in
the Empowering Teachers website could you refer them to begin conversations to build their capacity?
Essentials for Reading
Success
Components of Reading
1. Since you are the reading coach, an experienced first grade teacher
asked you for support with small group instruction. The teacher said
she is trying to pinpoint where she should begin instruction in phonics
with one of her small groups. Where in the Empowering Teachers
website could you direct her to better identify where she should begin
instruction?
Questions to
Guide Instruction
First Grade
Questions to Guide
Phonics Instruction
2. As a principal, you have done numerous walkthroughs of a particular
third grade classroom. Each time you have walked through, the teacher is
with a small group and he is providing implicit instruction that is lacking
a clear explanation of the targeted skill. You have noticed that two of the
students in the group consistently lack understanding of the skills that he
is trying to teach. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could you
direct this teacher to learn more about instruction?
Elements of
Effective
Instruction
Next
Next
Explicit
Instruction
3. You are the reading coach and a second grade team of teachers wants
you to help them find an organizational tool to keep track of the phonics
skills they are teaching. Where in the Empowering Teachers website could
you refer these teachers to find this type of tool?
Instructional
Planning
Guides and Student
Progress Records
Second Grade
Phonics
Instructional
Planning Guides
4. A kindergarten teacher asks you, her reading coach, to assist her with
locating vocabulary instruction for teaching new vocabulary with a small
group. The teacher already has a student center activity to use following
strong initial instruction. Where in the Empowering Teachers website
could you direct this teacher to obtain a lesson for explicit instruction to
teach new vocabulary?
Instructional
Routines
Kindergarten and
First Grade
Kindergarten
New Vocabulary
Questions / Concerns?