Teaching Reading: Critical Knowledge:
- The Cycle of Literacy
- Standards-based reading instruction: IRA/NCTE Standards and the USOE Core Curriculum
- What is SBRR (Scientifically-based Reading Research) and how does it impact teaching reading
- Oral language development, concepts of print, and phonemic awareness
- The differences between synthetic, analytic, and analogical (patterning) phonics approaches.
- What is meant by direct and systematic skills instruction.
- General sequence of beginning phonics instruction
- Response to Intervention (RTI) and 3 Tiered Instruction
- The role of prior knowledge in comprehension and vocabulary acquisition
Teaching Reading: Critical Performance
- Planning a simple reading lesson using: Before, During, and After activities
- Incorporating Language Experience Approach (LEA) with diverse learners
- Planning and using commercial SBRR core reading programs
- How to teach/assess direct systematic phonics instruction with a core reading program and a supplement such as Words Their Way.
- Identifying and using specific learning strategies including ones for vocabulary, and comprehension-building
- Incorporating reciprocal teaching strategies of: (a) predicting, (b) clarifying, (c) questioning, and (d) summarizing in teaching for better comprehension.
- Incorporating RTI in lesson planning and instructional routines
Teaching Reading: Critical Dispositions
- Using praise, reward, and practice to foster literacy
- Commitment to life-long learning about literacy
- Challenging oneself to try different instructional approaches with struggling students.
- Commitment to helping ELLs learn to read, write, listen, and speak academic English in the classroom.
Useful websites:
Utah State Office of Education Common Core Curriculum Standards
http://www.uen.org/core/languagearts/index.shtmlUtah State Office of Education Elementary Social Studies Core K-6
http://schools.utah.gov/CURR/socialstudies/Core-Curriculum/Kindergarten---Sixth-Grade.aspxFlorida Center for Reading Research
US Department of Education—What Works Clearinghouse
Reading Rockets (massive site with quality teaching materials)
http://www.readingrockets.orgNAEP-National Assessment of Education Progress (3 decades of Reading Achievement)
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/readingThe International Reading Association
The Utah Council of the International Reading Association
Kids Read
http://www.kidsreads.comRead/Write/Think
http://www.readwritethink.orgHoughton-Mifflin's Education Place
http://eduplace.com/rdg/index.htmlChildren's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrownThe Reading Challenge (motivation to read)
http://bookadventure.orgChapter Books to Read Aloud
http://www.kinderkorner.com/readalouds.htmlCheck out the Gateway to Education Materials. It contains over 300 lesson on reading skills and strategies:
http://www.thegateway.orgA site that has prepared lesson materials centered around Ellin Keene’s
Mosaic of Thought:
http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg/comprehe.html
Proteacher's site for reading comprehension materials:
http://www.proteacher.com/070166.shtmlFayette County Indiana site for curriculum resources:
http://fayette.k12.in.us/curriculum.htmReading Comprehension Strategies from San Bernardino County Schools
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/content_area_literacy/pages/reading_comp_strat.htmlFederal Literacy Information and Communication System:
http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/publications.htmlThe Rand Report on Comprehension Research and Instruction
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1465Learn more about Reciprocal Teaching:
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Reciprocal_teachingResponse to Intervention National Site
http://www.rti4success.org