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Linda Clinton

Journal #1 Studying the "Reading Transition" from High School to College: What Are Our ... - 6 views

A thorough analysis of a fascinating article! I think when the authors were referring to "minutiae of students' rituals" it was more to help the reader understand the students wrote in their readin...

TEMS520 reading

started by Anthony Stewart on 13 Feb 12 3 follow-ups, last by Linda Clinton on 21 Feb 12
Linda Clinton

Journal #2 Words Made Flesh: Fusing Imagery and Language in a Polymorphic Literacy - 5 views

Another fascinating article. I appreciate how you share your thinking about your own literacy experiences, and what you hope to bring to students.

TEMS520 reading literacy

started by Anthony Stewart on 13 Feb 12 2 follow-ups, last by Linda Clinton on 21 Feb 12
Elly Salkic

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

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. :)

TEMS520 reading literacy strategies ELA

started by Elly Salkic on 29 Jan 12 5 follow-ups, last by Elly Salkic on 05 Feb 12
Lauren Scherr

Reading Support Class - Before and During Reading Strategies - 1 views

My student teaching right now is predominately in 6th grade Language Arts classrooms. In addition to these, I am in a 6th grade reading support class and a 7th-8th grade reading support class. I th...

TEMS520 reading Literacy strategies education MS research comprehension

started by Lauren Scherr on 22 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Anthony Stewart

Book Review: Change is Gonna Come, Transforming Literacy Education for African American... - 10 views

This sounds like an interesting read. I have a couple of journal articles you might like. I have always been interested in this subject, because part of my own journey toward literacy has been ba...

TEMS520 African American Literacy education culture bookreview

started by Carolyn Beyer on 18 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Anthony Stewart on 23 Feb 12
Linda Clinton

Products - Thinking Maps - 1 views

www.thinkingmaps.com/products.php

TEMS520 graphicorganizers maps reading comprehension CCSS text structure

shared by Linda Clinton on 11 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • visual teaching tools that foster and encourage lifelong learning. They are based on a simple yet profound insight: The one common instructional thread that binds together all teachers, from pre-kindergarten through postgraduate, is that they all teach the same thought processes.
  • Linda Clinton on 11 Mar 12
     
    "Thinking Maps, developed by Dr. David Hyerle, are visual teaching tools that foster and encourage lifelong learning. They are based on a simple yet profound insight: The one common instructional thread that binds together all teachers, from pre-kindergarten through postgraduate, is that they all teach the same thought processes."
  • Linda Clinton on 11 Mar 12
     
    Graphic organizers is our topic for Monday, March 12.
Lori Losinski

Journal #1 Supporting Struggling Readers Using Interactive Read-Alouds and Graphic Orga... - 3 views

www.naeyc.org/...Barrett-Mynes.pdf

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  • Lori Losinski on 26 Jan 12
     
    Barrett-Mynes, J., Moran, M. J., & Tegano, D. (2010). Supporting struggling readers using interactive read-alouds and graphic organizers. Voices of Practitioners, 5(2), 1-12. This article discusses a four week study that was done in order to determine the effects that collaborative discussion and child-created graphic organizers used during read-alouds had on children's comprehension. Over the course of the study it was found that: 1. The children need less guidance from their teacher and became more collaborative with their peers in their discussions. 2. The use of graphic organizers became more child-created and required less teacher guidance. 3. Students in the study received higher scores on standardized tests. The article concludes that both collaborative discussions and child-created graphic organizers enable students to construct new knowledge and begin to organize their thinking in response to the comprehension of text. It was also found that by depending less on the the teacher for guidance, children were able to take more control and ownership of their learning. When I taught first and second grade, I loved using graphic organizers and read-alouds to help build reading and comprehension skills. I liked the fact that graphic organizers can be as creative and/or as structured as you would like. The most important factor for me is that graphic organizers can be used with any subject to help a child organizer their learning in a way that is helpful for them as learners.
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  • Linda Clinton on 27 Jan 12
     
    I thought it was rather interesting that the author let students create their own GOs. She mentions modeling three in the first week. I think students must have had other experiences with GOs to be able to use them rather independently within the four-week course of the study.
  • Lori Losinski on 28 Jan 12
     
    I agree, it seems like the student's in the study would have had to have some prior experience with graphic organizers to be able to create their own. I loved using graphic organizers in my classroom, although with 1st and 2nd graders they were primarily teacher guided, I think that they were helpful for students to organizer their thoughts and be able to have a visual representation.
  • Linda Clinton on 28 Jan 12
     
    In first/second grade it is absolutely appropriate for the teacher to guide and scaffold the student use of graphic organizers.
msterri24

The Power of Planning Developing Effective Read-Alouds - 3 views

www.naeyc.org/...BTJReadingAloud.pdf

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  • msterri24 on 26 Jan 12
     
    Journal # 1 Shedd, K.M., & Duke, N.K. (2008). The power of planning developing effective read-alouds. Beyond the Journal Young Children on the Web. November, 1-6. The article that I read is about the importance of reading aloud to students and the effectiveness of read-alouds. The study has found the effectiveness of read-alouds depends on a number of factors: * open-end questions * a careful selection of high-quality text * teacher excitement while reading read-alouds are important part of children's development of literacy skills. The article gave many suggestions on how to select books appropriate for grade level and for the audience. There were also ideas on how to get students involved before, during and after the read alouds. After reading this article, it made think about how I do read-alouds in my classroom and if I incorporate all the suggestions from this article during my read-aloud.
  • Linda Clinton on 27 Jan 12
     
    What do you think you might do differently as you do read-alouds in your classroom? I found it interesting and found myself reflecting on my practices. I love to read aloud to students, and as a classroom teacher, did it almost exclusively for the enjoyment and the experience of story for students. As I learned more about developing literacy, my read-alouds changed, and became more intentional. But after reading this article, I think I could do even more to plan for even more effective use of the strategy. I really like the idea of using the sticky notes to mark spots to question. (PS--I love Nell Duke. She really knows her stuff. Got to see her at the MRA pre-conference last year.)
  • msterri24 on 27 Jan 12
     
    I do read alouds throughout the day, which are books that we need to read for our Reading program, science or Paragon (history). At the end of the day I do author of the week, we talk about the author, illustrator, I go to the library every week and grab 5-7 books from the same author and don't really look inside the books to see if it is age appropriate. There has been a few times that the books have been over my students heads or too babyish for them. After reading the article I really need to take a minute and look at the pages and make sure the books are appropriate for my students.
Jamie Facine

Journal #1:Giants Steps with Nonfiction Writing - 1 views

www.everythingesl.net/...eps_nonficti_writing_96247.php

TEMS520 nonfiction writing strategies ELA ELL

shared by Jamie Facine on 30 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Jamie Facine on 30 Jan 12
     
    This article gives excellent advise on how to step-by-step teach non-fiction writing to ELLs. It gives tips on do's and don't's and reasons why things work and don't work when teaching students new to the country that are especially helpful for grades 3 and up. I believe strongly that reading and writing need to be linked to have meaning for students. As we teach reading in our content areas, we also need to teach writing skills to go with those reading skills.
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  • Linda Clinton on 01 Feb 12
     
    Do you think any of the suggestions in the article could be used in your setting? Have you had similar experiences with your ELL students? What do you take away from the reading?
  • Jamie Facine on 07 Feb 12
     
    The article says that most ELL students who had schooling in their former country will try to write in their own language and then translate into English and this becomes problematic, because the formats of sentence structure do not match in most languages. I don't really have this problem, but understand how this could become a problem. I do have the problem of sentence structure with the way my students speak, therefore when they write, the sentence structure is not proper. The article gives a step-by-step guide starting with organizers to teach non-fiction writing. I really liked the fact that it said to use sentences in the organizers. I have been using organizers with my class and trying to teach them to write fragments and then write the sentences later and found that problematic. I thought that I was trying to teach them to get their ideas on paper quicker, but after reading the article believe that it would be easier to teach them to write the proper sentence in the organizer and then transfer it to paper.
  • Linda Clinton on 10 Feb 12
     
    I do love it when I find something that contradicts what I've previously done or known. Gives me pause to think. It will be interesting to see if this change in your thinking produces results in your students' writing. Keep us posted!
LeAnn Maynard

Journal #1: The Connection Between Literacy and History | Teachinghistory.org - 7 views

teachinghistory.org/...25172

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  • LeAnn Maynard on 27 Jan 12
     
    Journal #1 I really like this article because it spoke to my content area, social studies. I think it is important that students understand how they read a novel for English will be different than reading a history textbook or a newspaper article, and therefore require a different strategy. I use primary and secondary documents, as well as text books, and so students sometimes struggle with comprehension of these different materials. I also use Supreme Court case documents and students have difficulty with those especially. Part of it is vocabulary, but part of it they really don't have a strategy for figuring it out. I think providing them with a strategy of how newspaper articles are structured vs. text books would be very helpful for those learners who have difficulty understanding what they are reading. I was also happy to find out that there is a website that I can access that may assist me with helping teach literacy for social studies. Yea!
  • Linda Clinton on 28 Jan 12
     
    This article also provides concrete examples of students reading history like historians, which is really important. And text structure and features defintely plays into this as well. I am so glad you found something meaningful for you as a teacher and learner! Nice use of tags! (Is this for your Journal #1?)
  • Erin Visger on 31 Jan 12
     
    LeAnn, I also think it is very important that students read a textbook differently from the way they would read a novel. Having students take on the persona of a Historian I believe would help them better understand history and how it went about developing our country and our pasts as well. That is wonderful that you are searching for ways to make a more meaningful connection between the students and history textbooks.
Linda Clinton

Literacy Builders: An Epidemic of Poor Comprehension - 1 views

www.literacy-builders.blogspot.com/...mic-of-poor-comprehension.html

TEMS520 reading comprehension strategies

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  • aspects of our strategy instruction may well be counterproductive.  I sense that we may overemphasize things like making connections and predictions and underemphasize things like synthesis and determining importance.
  • Linda Clinton on 29 Jan 12
     
    I re-read this (highlighted) passage from the article about 3 times to absorb it. When I first became a literacy coach about 10 years ago, our district was just transitioning to the idea of leveled text and guided reading. It was all about giving struggling readers text at their instructional level--easier to access. Now the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) necessitate a shift in that thinking as we need to push students to interact with more complex texts at a higher level of thinking. So I think we can still consider instructional levels (and need to) to help students become proficient readers, but we need to "up the ante" in our book talks to help students go deeper into the meaning.
Colleen Fell

Journal #1: The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study - 4 views

Link to article: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED511811.pdf Corrin, W., Levin, J., Salinger, T., Sepanik, S., Somers , M., & Zmack, C. Education Publications Center , U.S. Department of Education. (...

TEMS520 reading literacy research

started by Colleen Fell on 30 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
Linda Clinton

Journal 1 Building World Knowledge: Motivating Children to Read and Enjoy Informational... - 4 views

You keyed in on some very important points. Informational texts requires a somewhat different approach from narrative text, and we do have to help students learn strategies to be successful in meet...

Journal1 TEMS520 reading literacy strategies elementary education

started by Kevin Kerbrat on 30 Jan 12 1 follow-up, last by Linda Clinton on 30 Jan 12
Renee Spaman

Making the Student the Star - 1 views

www.readingonline.org/...art_index.asp

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  • Renee Spaman on 04 Feb 12
     
    The article I read was inspirational and made me think about my teaching style/methods in a whole new way. The article was about helping children use literature as a way to grow intellectually and emotionally. This article described that no matter what the medium, we must create educational experiences that strive to make the individual learner the central focus-the star of the lesson. If we do this, then the lessons have an outstanding chance of helping children grow. Throughout the reading, a study of an inner city, African American adolescent named Kevin is depicted. Kevin struggled to succeed in school and in life. He received tutoring from the author of this article (Terrence Hackett). After getting to know Kevin, Hackett realized that he had a difficult life and the fact that Kevin saw himself as a survivor. Kevin's home life was in turmoil in ways that are unfortunately all too common for inner-city single parent families. As his tutor, Hackett decided to have him read the novel, "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. This book united his world in a meaningful way. Kevin's real life was a survival story. This book matched his lived experience. It was personally relevant to him, and as a result he was interested and engaged.
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  • Renee Spaman on 05 Feb 12
     
    He continued to fail in school, despite being tutored by Hackett. Kevin saw the lessons he was being taught in school as completely irrelevant. They had no relation to his lived experience. They were remote and distant, did not appeal to his interests, and were presented in ways that failed to engage and motivate him in the least. The lessons did not consider his strengths and weaknesses as a leaner. The school's ditto sheets, textbooks, and workbooks were meaningless to him, so he tossed them aside. Something that was particularly noticeable to me was that Kevin attended a school that stressed remembering over thinking and acceptance over inquiry. Faced with the prospect of being turned into an object that memorizes and repeats irrelevant information, he chose to rebel. Hackett's tutoring sessions helped Kevin grow intellectually and emotionally, unlike school. To me, as a reader, this article demonstrates the power of personal relevance for learning. At school, If Kevin was the focus -the star of the activity-his level of concentration and determination devoted would have been enormously high. I am now a firm believer in making sure that my students are the "star" of every educational experience I provide for them. This article helped me understand what separates meaningful, effective learning environments from ineffective, frivolous ones.
  • Linda Clinton on 12 Feb 12
     
    It's probably not realistic to make every student a star in every lesson. Being aware of different ways to reach different students--and being wiling to try--is important. Thanks for sharing this article.
  • Dianna Morrison on 12 Feb 12
     
    I believe we need to make learning and reading relevant to all students. It is a challenge to find ways to engage all students, but I think we can come up with common themes with kids in our classrooms as a springboard for doing this. Thanks for the link! :)
Michelle Repokis

Book Review: The Leader in Me - 7 views

Book Review: The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey Summary/Main Idea: Stephen Covey is also the author of the world recognized book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In this book, s...

TEMS520 bookreview behavior academics attitudes education

started by Michelle Repokis on 13 Feb 12 no follow-up yet
Michelle Repokis

Book Review: The Daily 5 - 18 views

This book is a wonderful! The students become very independent and teachers are able to work with guided reading groups or individual conferences. It amazing what students can be trained to do with...

TEMS 520 reading literacy strategies

started by Elly Salkic on 12 Feb 12 5 follow-ups, last by Michelle Repokis on 13 Feb 12
Linda Clinton

Writing by Hand to Create a Deeper Engagement in the Classroom | The Digital Realist - 1 views

gxgraham.wordpress.com/...er-engagement-in-the-classroom

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  • Neurologists at the University of Indiana found more advanced neural activity in children when they wrote by hand as opposed to typing. An educational psychologist at the University of Washington found that 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders in a study there “expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus using a keyboard to compose.”
    • Linda Clinton
      Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
       
      This is contrary to upcoming online writing assessments.
  • emphasizes the importance of taking one’s time by making a connection between writing and drawing: before her students even start writing, she asks them to take fifteen minutes or so to make a sketch of the scene they want to create. When they are done, she has them list all of the sensory details in the picture.
    • Linda Clinton
      Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
       
      Stragegies we use with developing writers...used by a college professor!
  • you are creating the containers where you will eventually do your thinking.  If you are just thinking, on a screen, where you can write so fast and erase so fast, it’s kind of like Frost’s thing of playing tennis without a net.”
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  • “getting your mind on the page, without the interference of the editor, the fake voices, the cleaner-upper, the conformist.”
  • Sellers believes writing by hand can improve literacy by deepening students’ engagement with word and world.
  • They have to do the handwriting thing for thirty minutes a day for thirty days. For many of them, it’s the only time in the day they are alone.  It’s a form of meditation, right? To sit with oneself and discover what’s in there.  Writing by hand, then, is a great way, of creating a conversation with oneself.  That’s vital for the first year writer—maybe the most vital thing.”
  • “And I’m not sure writing by hand is right for every teacher, every writer, every classroom. I just want to make sure we don’t lose methods that really work.”
  • Linda Clinton on 05 Jun 13
     
    Fascinating!
Monica Orlando

Book Review: Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students ... - 8 views

Great question I didn't address in the review. All the examples used are middle to high school oriented and seem to require a level of maturity that elementary students would not possess. I think...

TEMS520 bookreview strategies

started by Monica Orlando on 13 Feb 12 3 follow-ups, last by Monica Orlando on 13 Feb 12
Renee Spaman

Read, Write, Think - 0 views

www.readwritethink.org

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  • Renee Spaman on 20 Mar 12
     
    This is a great website that I use often. 'Read, Write, Think' is excellent because it provides useful resources for grades k-12. This site provides teachers with classroom management resources, professional development, parent and after school resources, and learning objectives. My favorite part of this site is under the classroom resources tab they provide a plethora of lesson plans (great place to get ideas), and terrific interactive lesson plans too! I hope you enjoy because this is one of my favorites :)
  • Linda Clinton on 09 Apr 12
     
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Gina Dettloff

NEA - Celebrity Book Picks - 1 views

www.nea.org/29508.htm

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  • Gina Dettloff on 23 Mar 12
     
    How often do students look up to celebrities, right?  I thought this list was so cool.  If anything hopefully it gets one student interested in a book because their favorite star is too! I feel so special - Tyra, Halle and I have a special bond!  Our favorite teenage book is Are You There God?  It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume!!!!!!! p.s. I think Hillary Clinton wussed out.  NO recommendation for teen/adults and Goodnight Moon for your fav childrens book? c'mon Hillary!?! p.p.s.(or is it p.s.s.?) With a soft heart I noticed that Whitney Houston's fav childhood book was the bible. RIP Whitney...
  • Linda Clinton on 09 Apr 12
     
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