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Implementing Labs
What should I be doing during Lab time?
As noted above, throughout the “In the Labs” time, students work on di erent tasks throughout the room. For the most part, teachers circulate and support students in all Labs. However, some Labs, because of the complexity of the task or the materials involved, require greater teacher support than others. Teachers are called on to use their best professional judgment as to where to focus their time and energy. They can also utilize the provided checklists as they circulate to collect individual student data around literacy skills and habits of character.
How do Labs support a volume of reading? What do udents read in the Research Lab, and what support will they need?
Accountable independent reading lives across all three hours of the comprehensive literacy curriculum (most formally, it is found in the K–2 Reading Foundations Skills Block). In the Labs speci cally, especially in the Research Lab, students become immersed in content-based literacy as they pursue new information and answers to new questions about the content of the module. Students will need support in choosing appropriate texts from the range of levels pro- vided, and then using those texts in service of the standards identi ed for that particular Lab.
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