1. Take a look at your classroom environment as you have presently organized it for literacy instruction. Gather a group of colleagues in your classroom and ask them to analyze the environment.
2. Use a clipboard and write notes as a response to the following questions:
3. After the analysis, generate ideas about enriching the environment to provide more support for word study and to capture children's interest in letters and words.
4. Then repeat the process in your colleagues' classrooms.
For more ideas on an enriched classroom environment for word solving, pick up a copy of Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom.
From Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Copyright (c) 1998 by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. Published by Heinemann.