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Rigby Literacy and Your Balanced Literacy Classroom

In a balanced literacy classroom, where children are engaged in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and observing, you, the teacher, strive to guide and challenge your children as they grow to be independent readers, writers and thinkers.

With Rigby Literacy, lesson plans are provided that build upon children's strengths and are designed for children's learning needs. You are given the tools to correctly and effectively instruct and model, as well as share yourself as a writer and reader.

A preschool classrom is as unique as the teacher and children who spend their time there working and learning together. Rigby Literacy acknowledges that every classroom is filled with children at different stages of language development.

With this program

You will be able to identify and meet the needs and support the growth of each child as a literacy learner.

You will be alerted to assessment opportunities within lessons and be provided with assessment tools and forms to document student performance.

You will be provided with lesson plans that have a clearly identifyable teaching focus on skills and strategies to ensure that you address each child's needs.

Rigby Literacy supports you as you plan for balanced literacy by providing rich, meaningful materials and professional guidance for modeled, shared, guided, and independent practice.

The organisation and content of the lessons ensure that a variety of instructional approaches are used to involve and support children in whole-group and small-group instruction.

Rigby Literacy has been designed to suit your classroom and is organised for your school year!

Article adapted from Rigby Literacy Teacher's Guide (2000)

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