Leveled Readers for Writing

Hi All!  I hope you had a wonderful SHORT week back to school!  I can't believe it is the end of April!  Next week is going to be busy with Dibels starting but we are in the home stretch now. 

I have been thinking lots about the leveled readers, specifically the predictable texts, that I know we have a surplus of and what we can do with them.  It is tricky because with what we have learned about the SOR we need to keep our students knee deep in decodables as they are learning to read.  

Some of the higher levels can be used for comprehension in the older grades.  Or sorted into to theme book tubs for students to choose from.  

I ran across this site over in a SOR reading FB group and I LOVE that the suggestions are how we can use the text to support students in writing & language with these leveled texts.    

This video is a QUICK refresher why we have moved to decodable text!  Great resource to share with parents if they are having concerns about book levels or lack there of! 

I am over the moon excited about using our predictable text to support our writing instruction! 

The Right to Read blog has a GREAT post with ways to look at the text and decide how they can be best used.  

Such as these ideas below.  

Once you have identified how you will use your text, school below and you will see different activities ideas that you can click on to support the text type.

Like this simple on for rewriting the sentence on the page! Use Post it tape to cover the words.  This would be so fun in a literacy center and then read the text to the class! 

Reading Rockets has these activities organized in a different manner.  

 

I know we are moving toward the end of the year but I thought these ideas were worth playing with at bit.  Finding ones that we can use next school year to bring more to our writing & language lessons.  

Have an awesome weekend!