What are 5 strategies that help readers relate ideas to each other?
- Anaphoric relationships
- Retelling
- Summarizing
- Narrative Structure
- Expository text structure
Anaphoric relationships
One word or phrase in a text refers back to a previous word or phrase for clarity and understanding.
What are 4 strategies that help readers relate text ideas to prior knowledge?
- Pedicting
- Making Inferences
- Making connections
- Self questioning
What are 5 strategies that help readers monitor and repair comprehension?
- Self questioning
- Predicting - confirming
- Clarifying
- Rereading
- Summarizing
What are the 8 components of literacy?
- Motivating students
- Select the right text
- Phonemic awareness and other aspects of emergent literacy
- Phonics and word recognition skills
- Fluency and independent reading
- Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
- Teaching reading comprehension
- Building connections and Fostering Critical thinking
What are some comprehension strategies?
- Using prior knowledge
- Establishing purpose for reading
- Asking and answering questions
- Making inferences
- Determining what is important
- Summarizing
- Dealing with graphic information
- Imagining and creating graphic representations
- Monitoring comprehension
How do teachers teach for understanding
Focus on fewer topics but teach them in a way where students learn the content on a deeper level and appreciate the reasons for learning it.
What are 6 ways you can create a literacy environment?
- Model reading behaviors and mindset you want to see in students
- Print-rich classroom
- Classroom Library
- Choice
- Classroom Climate
- Grouping Students for instruction
What are 6 ways to promote intrinsic motivation?
- Interest
- Connection to lives outside of school
- Promote academic values and goals
- Efficacy and Positive Attributions
- Appropriate Challenge
- Cooperative activities to ensure active participation
How long should whole group time be in a reading block?
20-40 minutes per day
What should whole group reading instruction include?
- Interactive read aloud
- Share new and exciting books
- Morning mssage for younger studnets
- Introduction of skills, strategies and vocabulary
What are some guidelines for providing productive and beneficial activities for students?
- Make reading the priority with regular reading assignemnts and self selected reading.
- Reading should come first, not something they should do after they complete work.
- Vary the purpose for reading.
- Make writing your second priority.
Code focused activity
focuses on understanding the alphabetic principle, develop phonemic awarenss, identify and spell words
Meaning focused activity
engages students in the development of vocabulary, comprehension, or writing of extended text.
Do struggling readers benefit more from code focused or meaning focused activities?
code
What are some code-focused, teacher-managed activities?
- Phonemic awareness, rhyming, blending, and segmenting
- Letter recognition
- Letter-sound associations
- Decoding strategies
- Spelling
What are some code-focused, student-managed activities?
- Phonics games
- Phonics worksheets
- Writing and sorting spelling words
What are some meaning-focused, teacher-managed activities?
- Supported oral reading
- Comprehension strategy instruction
- Prior knowledge development
- Oral language development
- Repeated reading of text
- Writing compositions
What are some meaning-focused, student-managed activities?
- Independent reading
- Partner reading
- Completing graphic organizer
- Independent writing and publishing
What is a good amount of time for small groups?
60 minutes
What should below level readers focus on during small groups?
decoding strategies and some reading decodable book for fluency
What should above level readers focus on in small groups?
vocabulary, and comprehension skills as needed
What should on level readers focus on in small groups?
decoding, vocabulary and comprehension skills
What are 9 characteristics of successful interventions for struggling readers?
- Explicit strategy intervention
- Mediated scaffolding
- Strategy integration - students need to understand how all the pieces of reading skills fit together.
- Priming background knowledge
- Judicious review
- Well paced instruction
- Motivation
- Curriculum congruency
- Motivational discussions
