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| This means considering the readers’ needs and concerns, interests, background knowledge, and strengths and weaknesses as learners. |
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| As you plan reading instruction your next consideration is the texts or the reading selections. You should select a wide range of materials that reflect a variety of cultures, including easy selections as well as some that are more challenging and that deal with topics that reflect the array of diverse interests your students have. |
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| Purpose is what motivates us, helps focus our attention, and gives us something tangible to work toward (a goal). |
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| Four Frameworks for Scaffolding Students’ Reading |
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- directed reading activity (DRA)
- direct reading-thinking activity (DR-TA)
- scaffolded reading experience (SRE)
- guided reading
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| Directed Reading Activity |
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The procedure has five steps to guide students through a reading selection:
1. Readiness
2. Directed silent reading
3. Comprehension check and discussion
4. Oral reading
5. Follow-up activities |
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| Directed Reading-Thinking Activity |
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| Is a procedure that focuses on student-generated purposes. The importance of having students generate their own purposes is based on the premise that reading is a thinking process that involves the reader in using his own experiences to reconstruct the author’s ideas. |
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| Scaffolded Reading Experience |
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| Takes students through the prereading, during-reading, and postreading phases of a text reading, yet it is markedly more flexible. It is based on the notion of scaffolding, which, you will recall, is “a process that enables a child or novice to solve a problem, carry out a task, or achieve a goal [that] would be beyond his unassisted efforts”. |
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| In guided comprehension the students read a portion of the text and then stop to discuss it. At each stopping point the teacher works to guide their understanding by focusing on a few critical ways of thinking. |
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| Is a large-group questioning and discussion technique. An approach to text-based instruction that was designed to facilitate building understanding of text. |
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| Is a framework for reading instruction used primarily in grades 1 through 3; however, it can be adapted to use with older students. In guided reading, the teacher guides small groups of students in their reading of texts that offer a bit, but not too much, of a challenge for them. |
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| Stands for what you Know, what you Want to know, and what you Learned. The K-W-L procedure, developed by Donna Ogle (1986), is a three-part process designed to motivate and guide readers in acquiring information from expository texts; it is perhaps the best-known and most frequently used procedure for delving into expository texts. |
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| Is a listing of the major ideas and events in a story, beginning at the starting point and moving through the story in sequential order. |
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| Are “teacher-developed devices for helping students understand instructional reading material. |
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| A graphic aid to help students look at both sides of an issue raised in a text before they draw conclusions. |
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| Semantic Webbing and Weaving |
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| Are procedures that students can use on their own or with your help to organize ideas and graphically show their interrelatedness. |
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