As individual children find letters and words they know, you have the opportunity to scaffold their learning. The children read your writing as you compose it in front of them, building and strengthening their reading skills and fluency with your guidance. Imagine gathering your children around you in the large group area while you share a piece of writing related to the life of the classroom. Taught with your children gathered in close proximity, MTP is an experience that not only builds community, it builds readers, writers, and thinkers. Message Time Plus (MTP) connects to other balanced literacy practices in the literacy block through the primary literacy objective, identified language supports, and/or the content of the message, ensuring cohesion in instruction. It is also dynamic, including opportunities for children to interact within multiple modalities. It is highly engaging and impactful because it is structured to support and scaffold both individual children and the whole group. The purpose of Message Time Plus is to create an authentic reading and writing experience with embedded, frequent, and explicit opportunities for instruction in all of areas of literacy. Message Time Plus is a powerful instructional practice that combines modeled writing and shared reading to support the growth of young readers and writers. View this version of the Temporal Words and Phrases lesson for additional "look fors" and tips. Model Writing and Shared Reading in a First Grade Classroom - Juicy Temporal Words and Phrases Directors Cut
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