Scheduling literacy blocks and finding enough time in a day is an ever-present challenge in our classrooms. How do we do it, and where do we start? Today, we’ll go over some of the challenges we face, what to do about them, and how we can get in the time we need to teach literacy.

The Challenges of Literacy Blocks

• Not enough time

• Teachers are interrupted many times a day with student needs, broken copiers, announcements, and so on. There’s sometimes simply not enough time in our day to implement literacy blocks in the way we’d like.

• Overload of materials

• You may have a phonics program, fluency program, a comprehension program, etc. All of these materials are simply too overwhelming. And when we get overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, what actually happens is that we don’t end up starting at all.

• Over-adopting curriculum

• With the rise of the science of reading (yay!), many districts have adopted new curriculums. Although the intention is good, this leads to an overwhelming amount of resources. When we over-adopt curriculum, start valuing quantity over quality.

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