Why is learning to read considered so important for young children? Explain five
Learning to read is consider so important for young children because:
- Inability to read leads to long term consequences in earning potential and long term productivity.
- Inability to read = less understanding of their rights and responsibilities as cit
What is reading? What does reading do for the mind (explain three)?
- Reading is a multifaceted skill, gradually acquired over years of instruction and practice
- Three things that reading does for the mind is:
o Vocabulary development
o Growth in comprehension
o More general knowledge
Effective Reading Instruction
Describe at least three ways that you plan to differentiate instruction in your classroom. Provide examples to support your responses.
- Three ways that you can plan to differentiate instruction in your classroom is:
o Classroom assessment - ASSESSMENT DRIVES INSTRUCTION +1
� Use to inform instruction
� Before, during, and after instruction
o Motivation and engagement
� Teachers instruct
What does research say about the relationship between oral language and reading ability? State what is known and support your answer with three pieces of evidence.
- Relationship between oral language and reading ability is oral language is the foundation all literacy elements stand on.
- Oral language is the" great predictor"
o Three pieces of evidence:
� Deficits in oral language can ultimately limit a children's
What are some ways (explain five) to develop children's oral language in the classroom?
- Some ways to develop children's oral language in the classroom are:
o "let's pretend" puppets is narrative
o Participate in meaningful and productive conversation through teacher guided and structured contexts
o Oral language interviews meet the persona
Describe at least five evidence-based characteristics of effective early reading instruction.
Alphabetic knowledge
Phonological and phonemic awareness
Rapid automatic naming of letters and digits
Rapid automatic naming of objects or colors
Writing letters in one's name
Early Reading Instruction - COME BACK AND FIGURE THIS OUT
What are three processes to teach letter recognition effectively? Provide a sample activity for each process.
- Recognizing letters - present letters for practice tasks in random order so learners rely on physical characteristics and not its place in the alphabet - matching activities
- Searching for letters - I Spy
- Writing letters - build the ABC's with blocks
Define phonemic awareness and describe its developmental process/ stages. Provide an example of each level.
- Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in speech.
- Developmental process / stages: 3 levels
o Whole word level- words are left intact
� Rhyming (cat, hat, sat)
� Alliteration / Sound Matching (cat,
What role does phonemic awareness play in learning to read and write? Explain five.
- The role phonemic awareness plays in learning to read and write is:
o Children who cannot hear and work with phonemes of spoken words cannot learn to relate the phonemes to graphemes when they see them in written words.
o Children can recognize differen
How do effective teachers teach phonemic awareness to young children? Identify five.
- Effective teachers teach phonemic awareness to young children by:
o Explicit teaching.,
o Play letter games, auditory activities, using repetition, blending and segmentation. Modeling, help them detect the phoneme in spoken words by asking students "doe
What does it mean to decode, and why is it important to learn this skill early? Explain three reasons.
- Decoding- a term that relates to the phonics and other word-level skill students learn that help them figure out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word encountered in print
- This is important to learn this skill early because
o It helps children learn
Name and describe the five interactive strategies that have been proven to be effective for struggling readers?
- Five minutes of rereading familiar texts - improve word identification skills and automaticity in decoding
- Five minutes of phonics instruction - fill gaps in phonics knowledge and decoding skills
- Ten minutes of reading applying decoding skills to ne
Define fluency. Why is it so important for children to be fluent readers (identify two reasons)? What are two things that teachers can do to help develop / improve fluency in their students?
- Fluency is the effortless and automatic ability to read words in connected text to develop understanding (speed + accuracy + prosody)
- It's important for children to be fluent readers because:
o They need to appreciate and gain meaning from texts
o So,
Select three evidence-based fluency strategies and explain how you would use them in your reading instruction.
- Choral reading - the whole class reads a text all together
- Partner/ paired reading - the more developed reader goes first to model to the other student
- Scaffolded silent reading - teachers checks in with students during reading time to ask scaffoldi
Explain three reasons why students who struggle with word recognition or vocabulary/ comprehension issues may experience reading fluency difficulties.
- Students spend more time decoding words (it's not automatic)
- Students spend more time trying to figure out the meaning of the vocabulary
- Fluency is the bridge between word recognition and comprehension. Comprehension is depended on word knowledge an
Before students read specific vocabulary words for the first time, it is helpful to pre-teach the words. Describe two pre-teaching strategies that will help students to understand vocabulary words when they read them in a text.
- Two pre-teaching strategies that will help students to understand vocabulary words when they read them in text are:
o Discussion about the meaning of the word before reading - encourage students to use their background knowledge.
o Have students read a
Why is vocabulary knowledge a vital component in the reading process? What are two factors that contribute to differences in vocabulary development. Explain two ways the research states about how vocabulary should be taught.
- Vocabulary knowledge is a vital component in the reading process because reading comprehension and writing composition are dependent on word knowledge.
- Two factors that contribute to differences in vocabulary development are:
o Support at home
o motiv
In our power point by Dr. Jan Dole, we thoroughly discussed 8 comprehension strategies. Name and explain how you would use 4 of them in your future classroom.
- Visualizing - (think about how it feels)
- Making prediction - what will this book tell us?
- Summarizing - summarize the book
- Asking questions - teacher asks student questions about what the book told us
Comprehension
Students need to recognize when comprehension breaks down, and they also need to know what to do when it occurs. Explain 3 strategies that they can employ in the event of comprehension failure.
- Look back and reread the previous sentence
- Suspend judgement for now and continue reading
- Seek help from outer resources
- stop and think
Comprehension
Explain three differences between an expert reader (a child who can decode frequently and comprehend text) and a novice reader. What does research say about comprehension instruction? What are five specific things teachers can do to improve students' comp
- Three differences between an expert reader and a novice reader:
o Good readers are active readers
o Good readers have clear goals for reading
o Good readers try to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
- What research says about comprehension instru