EDUC 3240

Teaching Reading: Critical Knowledge:

  1. The Cycle of Literacy
  2. Standards-based reading instruction: IRA/NCTE Standards and the USOE Core Curriculum
  3. What is SBRR (Scientifically-based Reading Research) and how does it impact teaching reading
  4. Oral language development, concepts of print, and phonemic awareness
  5. The differences between synthetic, analytic, and analogical (patterning) phonics approaches.
  6. What is meant by direct and systematic skills instruction.
  7. General sequence of beginning phonics instruction
  8. Response to Intervention (RTI) and 3 Tiered Instruction
  9. The role of prior knowledge in comprehension and vocabulary acquisition

Teaching Reading: Critical Performance

  1. Planning a simple reading lesson using: Before, During, and After activities
  2. Incorporating Language Experience Approach (LEA) with diverse learners
  3. Planning and using commercial SBRR core reading programs
  4. How to teach/assess direct systematic phonics instruction with a core reading program and a supplement such as Words Their Way.
  5. Identifying and using specific learning strategies including ones for vocabulary, and comprehension-building
  6. Incorporating reciprocal teaching strategies of: (a) predicting, (b) clarifying, (c) questioning, and (d) summarizing in teaching for better comprehension.
  7. Incorporating RTI in lesson planning and instructional routines

Teaching Reading: Critical Dispositions

  1. Using praise, reward, and practice to foster literacy
  2. Commitment to life-long learning about literacy
  3. Challenging oneself to try different instructional approaches with struggling students.
  4. 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.shtml

Utah State Office of Education Elementary Social Studies Core K-6

http://schools.utah.gov/CURR/socialstudies/Core-Curriculum/Kindergarten---Sixth-Grade.aspx

Florida Center for Reading Research

http://www.fcrr.org

US Department of Education—What Works Clearinghouse

http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

Reading Rockets (massive site with quality teaching materials)

http://www.readingrockets.org

NAEP-National Assessment of Education Progress (3 decades of Reading Achievement)

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading

The International Reading Association

http://reading.org

The Utah Council of the International Reading Association

http://utahreading.org

Kids Read

http://www.kidsreads.com

Read/Write/Think

http://www.readwritethink.org

Houghton-Mifflin's Education Place

http://eduplace.com/rdg/index.html

Children's Literature Web Guide

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown

The Reading Challenge (motivation to read)

http://bookadventure.org

Chapter Books to Read Aloud

http://www.kinderkorner.com/readalouds.html

Check out the Gateway to Education Materials. It contains over 300 lesson on reading skills and strategies:

http://www.thegateway.org

A 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.shtml

Fayette County Indiana site for curriculum resources:

http://fayette.k12.in.us/curriculum.htm

Reading Comprehension Strategies from San Bernardino County Schools 

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/content_area_literacy/pages/reading_comp_strat.html

Federal Literacy Information and Communication System:

http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/publications.html

The Rand Report on Comprehension Research and Instruction

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1465

Learn more about Reciprocal Teaching:

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Reciprocal_teaching

Response to Intervention National Site

http://www.rti4success.org