4+Blocks+ideas+(how+are+we+making+Balanced+Literacy+work?)

How are you making any of the four blocks work? What are you doing in your class? Give us some quick strategies, slow strategies, whatever that we can try in our classrooms!

I thought that Laura did a good job of helping us see that we are not reinventing the wheel today. I know one of my biggest concerns about the literacy model is the idea of changing everything I do. I loved the analogy strategy exericise...and plan to use it soon in AP to review rhetoric concepts. Also, interestingly enough (I think) I was going over vocabulary words from Frankenstein with my seniors and Britni Riedenger used her Latin background to break down a word to define it for us. It didn't work with all four of the words, but I was neat and helpful to see her use this skill. -B