4 Blocks Literacy Framework

Four Blocks is a multimethod, multilevel literacy framework developed by Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall of Wake Forest University and utilized by thousands elementary classrooms.
                                     
Guided Reading Overview
Focus:
  • Expose children to wide range of literature
  • Teach comprehension strategies
  • Teach children to read in materials that become increasingly more difficult
Segment One: 10 - 15 minutes
Teacher directs a whole group lesson
  • builds students’ prior knowledge
  • leads a shared, choral, or echo reading
  • discusses key vocabulary in context of story
  • other identified needs
Segment Two: 15 - 20 minutes
Reading of text using flexible grouping
  • partners
  • small teacher or volunteer lead groups
  • play school groups
  • individual
Segment Three: 5 - 10 minutes
Teacher lead closing activity
  • discussion
  • acting out the story
  • writing in response to the story
  • other related activities
Materials:
  • Basal reading series
  • Multiple copies of trade books
  • Big Books
  • Other text-based materials
Other Information:
 

4 Blocks:

General Info

Guided Reading

Block

Self-Selected

Reading Block

Working With

Words Block

Writing

Block

4 Blocks:

Related Sites

4 Blocks: Assessment

Kindergarten

Building Blocks

Kankakee

School District Site

Lafayette

Primary Center

This 4 Blocks Site is maintained by Joe Fuhrmann, Kankakee (IL) School District First Grade Teacher at Lafayette Primary Center 

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