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speech can be turned into print
print can be turned into speech
letters represent sounds in language |
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| Find a balance between whole language and phonics |
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| Five Components of Balanced Instruction |
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- Read-Aloud
- Guided Reading
- Shared Reading
- Independent Reading
- Word Study
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Textbooks with a controlled vocabulary used to teach beginning reading.
Written for different grade levels |
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Each part of the beach ball has different questiong about the book:
- Main Characters
- Setting
- Beginning, Middle, & End Questions
- Etc.
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a morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word
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| Characteristics of Less Capable Readers |
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- less fluent in speech and reading
- trouble decoding
- small vocabulary
- has trouble with the organization of stories
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Reading aloud in unison with a group of students
Helps build fluency and confidence |
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Knowledge of how and what the students are learning affects planning for further instruction.
Examples:
- minute paper
- chain notes
- summaries
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Students construct their own knowledge by:
- exploration
- hands-on experience
- peer teaching & discussion
Knowledge constructed by oneself is truly integrated and understood
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| Constructivist Theory of Literary Instruction |
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allows students to want to learn
social aspect makes it fun |
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- the process of recognizing that letters make up words and sentences
- letters translate into sounds which blend to make words
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| the ability to convey meaning from language |
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voiceless combinations of two consonants
Examples:
st, sh, ch, th, wh
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directed listening/thinking activity
used to engage students in text above reading level
teach strategies to actively engage in text
Ex: make predictions, change predictions throughout |
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(1)directed (2)reading (3)thinking activity
guides students in making predictions about text
predetermines stopping points |
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| Effective Organization of Literacy Instruction |
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| Effective Teaching of Reading and Writing Skills |
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| gradual process that takes place from birth to literacy |
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text that is present in everyday life
- street signs
- menus
- food labels
- etc.
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| Four Blocks (primary grade class) |
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Integrates 4 language arts areas into reading instruction
- guided reading
- self-selected reading
- writing
- working with words
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- grapho-phonemic (print)
- syntactic (language)
- semantic (words & the world)
- pragmatic (purpose/function of reading)
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| Knowing about words and the world |
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| knowing about purposes or functions of reading |
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- reading
- writing
- speaking
- listening
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| a letter or letters that represents one phoneme (single sound) |
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A morpheme that could occur by itself
ex:
a, dog, to, quick |
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| teacher guides the class (or small group) through a text by reading it aloud and pausing at times to review and engage the students in critical thinking |
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words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings
Ex:
to, two, too |
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| students read by themselves |
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Informal Reading Inventory
- assesses 3 levels of reading (independent, instructional, frustration)
- focus on the abilities and skills of the students
- help to plan instruction
- reading and listening
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Know Want Learn
- organizes the students thoughts by discussing what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned from a lesson or reading
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the room is filled with text for the students to refer to as well as to be emersed in language
- labeled objects
- alphabet
- student work
- educational posters
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| activities use for students to practice decoding words into parts and patterns to help them learn the English language |
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Students use whatever they know about a story to predict what will happen.
Students stop and think about if their predictions were correct or not |
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| Teacher shows exactly how do to a task that the class or an individual students is having trouble with |
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| the smallest semantically meaningful unit of language |
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| Nifty-Thrifty-Fifty word list |
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a list of 50 words used to teach the use of patterns used when decoding polysyllabic words.
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reading a text with emotion
act as a "link" between the author and the listeners |
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Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening
measures the fundamental components of literacy |
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| pairs an ELL with a more experienced learner to help with a reading assignment |
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minimum unit of sound used to distinguish between words in language
- /p/ and /b/ in pat and bat
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awareness of the sounds of language and various aspects of language sounds, such as stress and innotation
Example:
- long and short vowel sounds
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approach to teachingthe alphabetic code of a language
- sound is encoded to writing
- writing is decoded into reading
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make use of rhyme, repetition of words/phrases/sentences
familiar cultural sequences
invite children to make predictions or guesses about words |
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| a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to alter its meaning |
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| a group of letters added to the end of a word to alter its meaning |
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| reading aloud to students |
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| students can listen on a higher level than they can read or write (complex ideas more accessible) |
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- increases fluency
- practices identifying word patterns
- increases understanding
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| self-monitoring of reading |
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- rereading & reading ahead to clarify meaning
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| students take turns reading and listening in pairs |
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words that students are encouraged to memorize as a whole rather than its parts or patterns
makes them faster more efficient learners |
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| the act of correctly identifying the combination and sequence of letters that constitute a word |
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| the study of rules that governs the way words combine to form sentences |
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books that are geared toward a specific subject/topic
increase interest & motivation in students |
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AKA word families
Example:
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| a place where teh teacher posts words used in various lessons so that the the class can refer back to it when whenever they need to |
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| Zone of Proximal Development |
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zone between the students actual ability level and their potential development under adult guidance or collaboration with more capable peers
where real learning takes place |
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