Journal #1: English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction - 22 views

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  #1 Elly Salkic on 29 Jan 12

   

  http://www.readingrockets.org/article/341/
  
  For my first journal, I chose to read an article about teaching ELL students to read, and what we should take into account when teaching them. The reason I chose ELL students is because I am a Title 1 teacher, with majority of my time spent on reading with them. Many of these students do not speak English, yet alone read it.
  The article was broken up in 5 sections, or reading components. It gave brief descriptions of each reading component, such as Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary Development, Reading Fluency: Including Oral Skills, and Reading Comprehension skills. After each component, it listed examples of things to do, and/or considerations to take into account when teaching ELL students.
  Although this focuses on ELL students, I think any teacher who wants to freshen up about important components of reading should read this article. It will give them ideas to use to help students become better readers, or to just spark a new idea of creating activities based on one of the ideas shared.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/article/341/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.readingrockets.org/article/341/</a> <br /> <br /> For my first journal, I chose to read an article about teaching ELL students to read, and what we should take into account when teaching them. The reason I chose ELL students is because I am a Title 1 teacher, with majority of my time spent on reading with them. Many of these students do not speak English, yet alone read it. <br /> The article was broken up in 5 sections, or reading components. It gave brief descriptions of each reading component, such as Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary Development, Reading Fluency: Including Oral Skills, and Reading Comprehension skills. After each component, it listed examples of things to do, and/or considerations to take into account when teaching ELL students. <br /> Although this focuses on ELL students, I think any teacher who wants to freshen up about important components of reading should read this article. It will give them ideas to use to help students become better readers, or to just spark a new idea of creating activities based on one of the ideas shared.</div>

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  #2 Linda Clinton on 29 Jan 12

   

  Reading Rockets is a great resource for information about teaching reading. Can you give a specific example or two of something you might do with your ELL students as a result of reading this article? Nice use of tags, too!

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Reading Rockets is a great resource for information about teaching reading. Can you give a specific example or two of something you might do with your ELL students as a result of reading this article? Nice use of tags, too!</div>

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  #3 Elly Salkic on 29 Jan 12

   

  Thanks. Yes definitely, I love the example of how in depth the teacher went when teaching vocabulary. It went from a basic reading lesson and the meaning of vocabulary, to visual and hands on learning. I think for the ELL students, the more they can get their hands on things and actually see, then they are more likely to know the actual meaning of a word. I plan on creating more of these types of lessons. I think that I just needed a little inspiration :) Another example that I liked in the article is the talk about fluency and how fluency should not be confused with accents. I think I need to pay more attention to this, and not mark my students down because of that. I am not sure if I was doing this before or not, but I think this is making me more aware that just because they say it differently (accent) that it does not mean that they are not reading fluently.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Thanks. Yes definitely, I love the example of how in depth the teacher went when teaching vocabulary. It went from a basic reading lesson and the meaning of vocabulary, to visual and hands on learning. I think for the ELL students, the more they can get their hands on things and actually see, then they are more likely to know the actual meaning of a word. I plan on creating more of these types of lessons. I think that I just needed a little inspiration :) Another example that I liked in the article is the talk about fluency and how fluency should not be confused with accents. I think I need to pay more attention to this, and not mark my students down because of that. I am not sure if I was doing this before or not, but I think this is making me more aware that just because they say it differently (accent) that it does not mean that they are not reading fluently.</div>

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  #4 Linda Clinton on 29 Jan 12

   

  Good observation! This also has implications for ORRs; a teacher really needs to know the student's speech pattern to discern is it a miscue or an accent/phoneme issue. While you might not count them as miscues in determining accuracy/fluency, you can certainly use them as focus for instruction/mini-lessons during guided reading.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Good observation! This also has implications for ORRs; a teacher really needs to know the student's speech pattern to discern is it a miscue or an accent/phoneme issue. While you might not count them as miscues in determining accuracy/fluency, you can certainly use them as focus for instruction/mini-lessons during guided reading.</div>

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  #5 Michelle Repokis on 30 Jan 12

   

  I was drawn to the title of your article since I work with ELL students. I really enjoyed it and laughed when I read about the difficulties ELL students face when they read "expressions". My students last year thought I was "so silly" because I used expressions all the time like "Times flies when you're having fun!" and "Hold your horses!" One of my students ran up to me and said, "Everything you say is in my book from the library!" He then opened this great book about expressions and pointed to all the phrases that I use. This book is called, "My Teacher Likes to Say". (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-teacher-likes-to-say-denise-brennan-nelson/1006124095) I have been meaning to buy it! This is a great resource to use when teaching ELL students expressions.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I was drawn to the title of your article since I work with ELL students. I really enjoyed it and laughed when I read about the difficulties ELL students face when they read "expressions". My students last year thought I was "so silly" because I used expressions all the time like "Times flies when you're having fun!" and "Hold your horses!" One of my students ran up to me and said, "Everything you say is in my book from the library!" He then opened this great book about expressions and pointed to all the phrases that I use. This book is called, "My Teacher Likes to Say". (<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-teacher-likes-to-say-denise-brennan-nelson/1006124095" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-teacher-likes-to-say-denise-brennan-nelson/1006124095</a>) I have been meaning to buy it! This is a great resource to use when teaching ELL students expressions.</div>

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  #6 Elly Salkic on 05 Feb 12

   

  Hey Michelle, your story made me laugh too. Thanks for sharing the book title, I actually have heard of it and was interested in reading it, and then just completely forgot the title. :)

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hey Michelle, your story made me laugh too. Thanks for sharing the book title, I actually have heard of it and was interested in reading it, and then just completely forgot the title. :)</div>

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