Beginner readers: rhyming with nursery rhymes- starting print related understandings, knows half of alphabet, beginning letter in site words, uses pictures to help with words and comprehension. Activities- alphabet focus, letter matching, pic sorting, comprehension = picture walk, during reading make connections, after reading connect to real life.
Emergent Readers: no concept of print but can make sounds, no tracking print, mid yr to k5, recognize less than half the alphabet, lack of phonemic awareness. Activities- picture books, predictable books, repeated phrases, flashcards, phonemic awareness activities (sounds) no letters, segmenting, isolation, blending.
phonics instruction- what letter that sounds represents
blend- is one or more sounds . initial consonant blend- beginning (br in bride). final consonant blend- end of words (ed in cracked)
digraphs- one sound
variant consonants- more than one phoneme (doesn’t follow all rules)
silent consonants- consonants not sounded out, (ch) t in watch/ dg in edge/ gh in fight (silent)
vowels- short, long, r controlled
spelling patterns- cvc= consonant vowel consonant, cvc= pot, cvce= take
onset & rime- all consonant letters before the rime ( onset= /s/ rime= sail, /o= b/ r= bail )
syllable- beats or spoken segments (clap out) - bear-1 care-1 tiger-2
What Reading and Writing are for:
• print concepts
• phonological and phonemic awareness
• concrete words
• letter names and sounds
• foundation- children learn words through engaged reading
• modeled reading- read aloud’s, writing, shared reading, small group sharing
• before and after reading strategies- predictions of character, plot, setting, solution, etc. look at title and pictures, what do you think will happen? MAKE CONNECTIONS= COMPREHENSION, TEXT TO TEXT/TEXT TO SELF/ TEXT TO WORLD
Choosing a book- very predictable, appealing, someplace conceptually
The BIG 5! +2
• Phonemic Awareness- awareness and ability to manipulate sounds in words
• Phonics- knowledge of relationships btw the letters of written & spoken language
• Fluency- ability to read rapidly with phrasing and comprehension at appropriate rate
• Comprehension- using strategic actions smoothly to understand reading and text
• Vocabulary- recognition of words and their meaning
• +1 Writing- skills provide print rich environment/ modeling interactive writing
• +2- Motivation- key to begin reading
Types of Reading-
• practice / introduce modeling
• Guided reading- independent, involvement
• segmentation- spelling
• phonemic awareness- sound , not seeing letters
• activities: phoneme isolation, phoneme identity, phoneme categorization, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, phoneme deletion, phoneme addition, phoneme substitution .
• /d/ dont say letter, say sound
Assessment- K-W-L chart / know= drives instruction, many types, good and bad, ERSI, purpose, before-during-after, all the time. Want to know= comprehension, instructional level, evaluate and assess, upper grades. Learn= what they comprehended and got from activity.
Expository= non fiction
QRI :
• identify a students instructional level, determine areas of reading when having a difficulty, document growth bases on intervention
• identifying levels: independent- read without assistance, fluency answers 90% correct.
• instructional- can read with assistance, 95%
• frustration- completely unable to read, tension is evident
• Classification validity- scores were higher or lower- btw both data from tests
Morpheme: smallest unit of meaning / bound morpheme = prefix or suffix (boy (s) ) ... re/mov/able- the (re) is bound
Review-
Hear sounds orally- phonemic awareness
Knows half the alphabet- beginner reader
Predictable books- emergent reader
phonemes in shipping- 6
phonemes in tiger- 4
before reading strategy- make predictions
uses pictures to figure out words- beginner reader
glide & take= cvce patterns
2 consonants that produce 1 sound- digraph
isolate sounds- segmentation
syllables in tiger-2
the a in charge is- r controlled
3 ways to read a book= read and talk about the pics, read the words, retell a previously read book
types of learning- direct and indirect
tier 1 words: milk, jump, smile
tier 2: darting, rummage *most lessons use tier 2
tier 3: content specific, quadrilateral = math
context clues= prefix and suffix
strategies for tier 2 words: introduce the word, WOW words, say word, sentence from text, student friendly definition, teacher sentence, turn and talk, use the word.
FLUENCY- smooth reading/ flows naturally
• comprehending what they read- automatic
• accuracy- ease of decoding / grade appropriate/ volume
• pitch- appropriate text phrasing or “chunking”
• automaticity- translating letters to sounds
• expression- using proper intonation in ones voice
• rate- using appropriate speed
• phrasing- reading orally
• automaticity theory- comprehension can be ignored when struggling readers devote all of their attention to decoding
• reading fluently does not guarantee a comprehension reader.
7 Characteristics of Fluency Instruction:
• explicit instruction
• modeling
• reading practice
• access to challenging material
• oral and silent reading
• giving a goal and feedback
• wide and repeated readings
Fluency concepts- punctuation, score it, self monitoring, phrasing, guess the emotion, readers theatre, partner reading
All Comprehension:
• making a movie in your head / visualize-draw
• read to understand > essence of reading
• Good Readers- actively construct meaning, set a purpose for reading, preview text, fix up strategies, background knowledge, self monitor, think about author, and react to text.
• How to teach it? explicit strategy/ modeling/ collaborative/ guided practice.
• Strategies: predicting, questioning, visualizing, connecting, monitoring, summarizing, inferring, text structure
• Infer: cues form experience, emotion not predictions
~CROPQV~ Connections, Reaction, Opinion, Predictions, Questions, Visualizations
Effective Strategies:
1. Activating Prior Knowledge- pull out main ideas, predict what will happen, explain their predictions, encourage to make inferences.
2. Questioning- use words to formulate questions, why , what, when, how?
3. Visualize- description of text, help remember whats being read
4. Clarifying- apply strategies to the text they don’t understand
5. Drawing Inferences- key words, learn from the words
6. Retelling- ask student to describe text situations , what comes next in the passage?
Thinking Beyond the text- predicting, making connections, inferring, synthesizing
What’s on the PRAXIS
• Emergent Literacy - oral language and concepts of print
• Phonological Awareness
• Alphabetic Principle/ phonics and word analysis
• comprehension and fluency
• vocabulary
• instructional processes - practices, material, assessment
Systematic instruction- guided by a scope and sequence that is comprehensive and that teaches all the appropriate knowldge and skills in a scaffolded manner
Explicit instruction- teacher models and explains - provides guided practice, supported applications, students apply the skill, independent practice.
Practice-
• ing in the word working is a suffix
• the smallest unit of sound is a phoneme
• church has 3 phonemes
• in the word splash the consonant blend is spl and has 3 phonemes
• reading with the teachers help should be done at the childs instructional level
• children should not be allowed to read books at their frustration level
• relating the letter b to the first sound of the word bag is an example of phonics
• ability to hear and identify sounds is phonemic awareness
• comprehension is often said the reason to be for reading
• the word watermelon has 4 syllables
• learning in a social context is a theory by Vygotsky= thinking with oral language
• the word car is a r controlled vowel
• g in the word gas is hard and is soft in the word giant
• the word cry has a long i vowel sound
• in the word when the wh is a consonant diagraph
• the mental structure where we store info- schema
• re in the word refill is a prefix
• most words with a cvc spelling pattern have a short vowel
• finger point reading shows a child can point to words from left to right
• reading at a good pace and with expression shows fluency
• identifying initial phonemes in words shows the ability to isolate sounds
• the smallest unit of meaning in a word - morpheme
• helping students , then gradually withdrawing help, is a way to scaffold learning
• using context clues is a method to help a child’s vocab or understanding of words
• tooths vs teeths= overgeneralized
• blends = bl, dr, str
• diagraphs- consonant= th, sh, wh
• vowel- ea in sea
• diphthongs- both vowels, a&i in rail
• antonyms- opposite meanings
• synonyms- similar meanings
• homonyms (homophones)- sound looks the same but have different meanings -bear, bare
• phonic skills- sorting pics by initial sounds
• graphophonic cues- mixing up words while reading
• grapheme - phoneme correspondence= looking for the d sound in David, Cindy, and Adam - matching a sound to its letter
• semantic map- gives students a way to understand what they read
• reciprocal teaching is an instructional activity where teacher and student conduct conversation about the text, model by asking questions.
• metacognitive- advocate and model self questioning during reading- producing and practice of skills
• decoding multisyllabic words- affixes and morphemes
• structural analysis- abnormal (example of word)
• phonemic awareness- sound out the separate sounds in the word, bat.
• phonics- ot in pot, got / en in hen , ten
• students accountability for improving literacy skills= scheduling weekly interviews to discuss students goals
• students are able to track print by the ending of a sentence
• round robin reading consumes class time
• instructional level= read 95%, answer questions 75%
• auditory discrimination- ability to distinguish differences and similarities btw sounds and words
• metacognitive skill- modeling how to self question while reading
• ensure that kids have the words in their listening and speaking vocabularies before teaching a new vocab word
• sight words= sink, sunk, sunken
• affix= a prefix or a suffix
• the words boys has 2 morphemes
• inventing spelling words strengthens phonemic awareness
• structural analysis- study of meaningful word parts (differentiate words with prefixes and suffixes) strategy = inflectional endings
• schema theorists with vocab instruction = relationships among concepts that the word represents
• success in learning to read= extensive exposure to print