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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 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: 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 w/ Kelly in REED 430
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Monday, October 6, 2014. Reading aloud in unison with a whole class or group of students. After hearing the teacher read and discuss a selection, students reread the text together. Choral reading helps build students' fluency, self-confidence, vocabulary knowledge, motivation, and enjoyment of literature. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My name is Kelly Gleason! I am a junior majoring in Special Education at the University of Tennessee Knoxville! View my complete profile.
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: Classroom Structures: Organizing for Literacy
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Classroom Structures: Organizing for Literacy. The chapter, 'Inside Classrooms That Work', in the book, "Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write" by Allington and Cunningham gives detailed schedules using all essential components of effective instruction. Here is a sample schedule that I found on. This chart only mentions reading once. The book has illustrated that it is best to break up reading and split it up throughout the day....Subsc...
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430: Guided Reading and Book Clubs!
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Reading w/ Kelly in REED 430. Monday, November 10, 2014. Guided Reading and Book Clubs! Guided Reading is a great comprehension strategy for students! It's not always the most fun activity for kids, especially if they are just handed out a chart that looks like this:. It may be more exciting for students to see something that they can use other skills such as drawing or coloring such as this:. Book clubs are great ways for students to read something that interests them and share what they have learned!
