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Reading's Rad: Assessment
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Monday, November 24, 2014. To effectively execute this process correctly, a school first needs to catch any reading problems that a child may have in reading early. All of these components are a part of the RTI approach, which is a systematic method for addressing the educational issues that a student may be having in class. The process is fairly long and detailed, but has provided many students with the assistance they need. 1 What are your thoughts on the RTI Model? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: September 2014
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Monday, September 29, 2014. Reading is a complex problem-solving process in which readers actively pursue meaning. Graves, Juel, and Graves, 2001). As I was reading through What Can I Say Besides "Sound it Out"? Coaching Word Recognition in Beginning Reading by Kathleen F. Clark, I found some great 'coaching' methods to incorporate into teaching. Here are a list of coaching cues that I found helpful from reading this article:. Ex: How am I going to figure this out? Children ...
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: October 2014
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Sunday, October 26, 2014. The book states that in order to think while you read, you must:. 1 Be able to quickly identify almost all the words. 2 Have sufficient background knowledge that you can connect to the new information. 3 Be familiar with the type of text and be able to see how the author has organized the ideas. 4 Have a mindset that reading is thinking and know how to apply your thinking in comprehension strategies. This is a slightly different, and more visual ver...
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: Building Vocabulary
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Monday, November 3, 2014. Vocabulary is so important to learning and reading comprehension. Whether you're in the Logographic stage, or the Orthographic stage, vocabulary is just as important! BUT, it is important to remember that when words are taught directly, they must be kept to a small amount- words need to be taught thoroughly and there needs to be time for students to meet them in many different contexts in order for them to understand and remember the vocabulary!
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Reading's Rad: Comprehension
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Friday, October 17, 2014. When teaching children to read, we often focus on getting children to learn the letters, recognize words, sound out words they don't know. This, of course, is the basis for reading (recognizing the words and being able to speak them). However, we are missing a big chunk of this puzzle, comprehension. As we have discussed in our Reading Education class and read in our textbooks, there is no. Classrooms that Work: They Can All Read and Write. The sequence appears as this:. Chapter...
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Reading's Rad: Word Study
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Monday, October 13, 2014. When a parent sees a child inventing words, using their own brain to come up with a word that does not make sense, parents tend to worry. They sometimes think that their child is not on the right track, surely they are doing something wrong. However, after reading. Making Words: Enhancing the Invented Spelling-Decoding Connection. By James and Patricia Cunningham, it is clear that if a child is inventing their own spelling they are, in fact, doing exactly what they should be!
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: November 2014
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Monday, November 24, 2014. This blog is for last week, and last week's blog is for this week! STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE NOT THE ONLY FORM OF ASSESSMENT! These standardized tests only give a glimpse of a child's ability. There are many other ways to assess a child's ability! A variety of tests is a great way to give teachers a more "comprehensive portrait"(Rubin). Rubin talks specifically about measuring reading ability beyond standardized testing. This assessment specifically f...
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: Comprehension
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Sunday, October 26, 2014. The book states that in order to think while you read, you must:. 1 Be able to quickly identify almost all the words. 2 Have sufficient background knowledge that you can connect to the new information. 3 Be familiar with the type of text and be able to see how the author has organized the ideas. 4 Have a mindset that reading is thinking and know how to apply your thinking in comprehension strategies. This is a slightly different, and more visual ver...
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: Word Study
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Sunday, October 12, 2014. Morphemes, Context, and the Dictionary are three helpful things to help students refine the meanings of words. Learning root words, prefixes, and suffixes makes it easier for students to predict a word that they do not know. Learning how to use context to figure out a word, or what a word means, is an important concept in learning how to read. This Word Study chart is a great way to build This is a great worksheet that could be. This is a great.
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Reading's Rad: Vocabulary
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Monday, November 3, 2014. Vocabulary is critical to reading comprehension", says authors, Patricia Cunningham and Richard Allington, in Chapter 6 of Classrooms that Work. As we have read through Chapters 1-6 of this textbook, it is clear that there is not one. Distinct key to reading to comprehension; there are multiple critical components that eventually lead to successful reading comprehension. Like all of the various building blocks we have discussed before, vocabulary. Use classroom experiences/stori...
