Anita Archer is well known for her expertise in explicit instruction. Above is an image of her "Archerisms" and in order to help support the rigor and lack of engagement some are experiencing when teaching reading and writing with MyView, we are going to focus on each "ism" one at a time and do a deep dive.
The first is quite common and I am sure you have heard it a lot. In fact, it's listed in the MyView Teacher's Edition and we talked about it when using American Reading Company's materials. You might also know it as the gradual release of responsibility. It's I Do, We Do, You Do. This is the heart of explicit teaching. You are clearly telling kids what they are going to learn and how to learn it.
What I have found that when I am teaching, I think I am doing this in this order. I think I am doing an I Do. But really, I am doing a We Do. It happens more often in teaching that you think. We are in the modeling section or the I Do part of the lesson, but we start asking the kids about how to do "it" instead of explicitly telling or showing them. We jump right into We Do and then send them on their way to You Do. However, they never really saw how to do it or heard the think aloud about how to do in a good I Do.
In order to make sure the I Do happens the way it's supposed to, you have to be intentional with the planning. You have to actually think about what it is that you, the teacher, are going to show how to do. And a lot of the times, this HAS to involve a think aloud. You have to think and share what you are thinking. The beautiful thing is, MyView has this already listed for you. It's the blue section that has what you should say so that it is explicit. Nothing more, nothing less.
Here is a graphic to help you be more intentional with the I Do, We Do, You Do so that you are explicit in your teachers so that kids LEARN! :)
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