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anonymous

Education World: Reading Coach: Addressing the Forgotten Element: Improving Fluency in Struggling Readers - 0 views

www.educationworld.com/...ReadingCoach004.shtml

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  • anonymous on 15 Apr 12
     
    By Cathy Puett Miller Of the five key reading components identified as essential by the National Reading Panel, fluency is the stepchild. It certainly gets less attention than the others, perhaps, in part, because its exact meaning often is cloudy. Many educators seem even less certain about how to teach it effectively. This article provides a three step approach and some tips on how to increase fluency. It's a short read with some great ideas... I hope you enjoy it!
  • Linda Clinton on 16 Apr 12
     
    Fluency has recently come more to the forefront. Some say it's a good proxy for comprehension, which makes sense, because if you are spending all or most of your brain power just figuring out what the text says, there isn't much left to figure out what it means. +2
Wendy Morales

Book Review: It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disab... - 7 views

I own this book in my collection too Scott. I love the works of Richard Lavoie. The special education field is a rewarding one, and with more insight we teachers can help students with a variety ...

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started by Scott Ceglarek on 13 Feb 12 2 follow-ups, last by Wendy Morales on 13 Feb 12
Anna Scott

Reading Instruction in the Elementary Classroom - 0 views

www.readingonline.org/...kimbell-lopez

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shared by Anna Scott on 11 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Anna Scott on 11 Feb 12
     
    Here is a very helpful link. It talks about all of the ways to teach reading in the elementary classrooms. It describes shared reading, readers theater, and guided reading just to name a few. I found it very helpful and a great resource,
Lori Losinski

The Reading Lady - 0 views

www.readinglady.com/index.php

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shared by Lori Losinski on 21 Mar 12 - Cached
  • Lori Losinski on 21 Mar 12
     
    The is a website that I used often when teaching. I think this is a valuable website because it has a lot of information and resources on comprehension strategies that were helpful in the classroom. The site also has a great section on readers theater with tons of scripts to download.
  • Linda Clinton on 09 Apr 12
     
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Lori Losinski

Reading worksheets - comprehension, book reports, vocabulary and other reading printables. - 0 views

www.busyteacherscafe.com/...reading.html

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  • Lori Losinski on 26 Mar 12
     
    Reading Comprehension Strategies Based on Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Reading With Meaning by Debbie Miller Book Report Forms. I love this site and have used it often in my teaching career. My favorite section of this site is the reading section. The reading section has resources on early, emergent and transitional readers, book reports, story maps, reading checklists, task cards and discussion cards and much more. This site is certainly worth checking out.
  • Linda Clinton on 09 Apr 12
     
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Linda Clinton

NPR.org » To Do Well In Life, You Have To 'Read Well' - 0 views

m.npr.org/...144944598

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shared by Linda Clinton on 11 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Linda Clinton on 11 Jan 12
     
    NPR interview with Walter Dean Myers, the current ambassador for Young People's Literature. The theme for his ambassadorship: "Reading is Not Optional."
  • Colleen Fell on 23 Jan 12
     
    I love Walter Dean Myers, and think he is great for reaching boy readers. I read Dopesick for my Young Adult literature class last semester, and think he is accessable for various students.
Linda Clinton

I Resolve to Read - The Book Whisperer - Education Week Teacher - 2 views

blogs.edweek.org/...i_resolve_to_read.html

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shared by Linda Clinton on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Linda Clinton on 04 Jan 12
     
    Sixth-grade language arts teacher Donalyn Miller joins other teachers and education bloggers who are including reading goals and challenges as part of their New Year's resolutions. Miller, who asks her students to reflect on the reading they did last year, encourages educators to participate and share goals of their own and their students for reading in 2012.
  • Linda Clinton on 04 Jan 12
     
    As reading teachers (and every teacher is a teacher of reading!) it is important for us to think about, and let students see, ourselves as readers. What are your personal reading goals?
  • Michelle Repokis on 16 Jan 12
     
    I just wanted to mention that I read the Book Whisperer and loved it! I also had the opportunity (along with Elvisa) to listen to Donalyn Miller speak at the MRA conference last year in Grand Rapids. She is inspiring! I hope to read 2 books during Mid-Winter break AND Spring break. It is hard to read for pleasure with work, college and the other endless commitments!
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. :)

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

Journal #1: What RTI Means for Content Area Teachers - 10 views

Dr. Clinton, when you stated that RTI is not legislation, I looked back on the article to see where I had misinterpreted information. The article states exactly what you commented on, that RTI is ...

TEMS520 reading literacy strategies

started by Monica Orlando on 29 Jan 12 2 follow-ups, last by Monica Orlando on 31 Jan 12
Dianna Morrison

Helping Underachieving Boys Read Well and Often. ERIC Digest. - 1 views

www.ericdigests.org/...boys.html

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  • Dianna Morrison on 30 Jan 12
     
    The ability to read well is the most important skill children can acquire. Reading ability and the desire to read vary significantly among groups of children, however. This article discusses the results of a study taken in 98-99 of kindergarteners. It provides information on how schools and families can improve the reading skills of native English speaking children, particularly poor elementary school level boys of color. It states that boys typically learn to read at an older age than girls, take longer to learn, and comprehend less easily than girls. It talks about reading genres that boys prefer, such as adventure, science fiction and fantasy and books that have characters like themselves. They discuss the value of reading aloud to students and in providing silent reading time along with a wide variety of books for boys to choose from. Lastly, it gives suggestions for parents and communities to provide opportunities for young people to help engage them in regular reading.
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  • Dianna Morrison on 30 Jan 12
     
    Oh phooey....I forgot to put Journal #1 on my posting and the author....Wendy Schwartz. Here I was so proud I figured out how to get it there too! Sorry! :)
  • Colleen Fell on 30 Jan 12
     
    I love the idea of allowing boy readers to read what interests them. I think a lot of times boys reading for information is viewed as negative, as girls are more apt to discuss and analyze the text. This is something that is just as valuable and can add a lot to the classroom climate and teachers should learn to value this too.
  • Linda Clinton on 05 Feb 12
     
    Based on reading this article, what strategies might you incorporate in your classroom/school? Have you previously engaged in any practices to increase boys' reading?
  • Dianna Morrison on 05 Feb 12
     
    I always try to do a survey with students for likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses. I use this information to help students find reading material they are interested in and give them a choice when reading. I also purchased books like Guiness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, and MythBusters to put on my informational book shelf. Boys seemed to have liked these books very much.
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! :)
Dianna Morrison

Journal #2: Cool Books for Tough Guys: 50 Books Out of the Mainstream of Adolescent Literature That Will Appeal to Males Who Do Not Enjoy Reading Lawrence Baines (1994) - 2 views

scholar.lib.vt.edu/...Baines.html

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  • Dianna Morrison on 05 Feb 12
     
    "Teachers of English need to reach the tough guys out there, and they are probably not going to do it by prescribing another go at The Sound and the Fury. The problem is not so much that tough guys lack the brainpower to read: they simply do not want to." I like the suggestions given for books to motivate adolescent male readers given in this article. I appreciate how Lawrence Baines has collected information over the years to share with us as teachers.
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  • Michelle Voelker on 06 Feb 12
     
    I smiled when I saw this... I have had some "tough guys" in middle school Language Arts, especially when we read only 1 text that has a male protagonist in the 8th grade. Luckily, we just started teaching Glory Road, a screen play about a college basketball team during the 1960s and my boys connected very well to that text. I actually found "Crime Lab 101: Experimenting with Crime Detection" at the Salvation Army over the summer and bought it. (It was one of my "grab everything on the shelf and buy it" days). A student that "hates reading" found that book and I actually have heard from other teachers that he "doesn't pay attention in class because of that book." I think there could be worse reasons for not paying attention. :)
  • Linda Clinton on 12 Feb 12
     
    What ideas do you have for getting "tough guys" to read.?
  • Dianna Morrison on 12 Feb 12
     
    I always try to do an interest inventory with students and find books that fall into these interests to offer for independent reading time. I also love informational books that center around sports and life oddities, such as Ripley's or Guiness Book of World Records. Boys seem to like these types of books. I have used Sports Illustrated for Kids also as an offer for reading. For class books, I have used "The Air Down Here" by Gil Alicea, a teenage boy from the Bronx. It is written in journal format and tells about his life in his own words. I used this with 8th graders and the boys especially seemed to "grudgingly" get interested and want to read more! I also found that books about aliens, Big Foot, Sasquatch and those types of informational books were interesting to them as well!
  • Linda Clinton on 20 Feb 12
     
    When I was a media center teacher, I could not keep the Guinness or Ripley books on the shelf! I think besides the "ew" factor, another draw is (of course) the pictures, and small chunks of text.
Michelle Repokis

Journal # 2-Reading 101 for English Language Learners - 8 views

Professor Clinton- It also makes me realize that teaching these students the position of their mouth/tongue/etc when producing these sounds is extremely important. When speaking to a Title I Aide t...

TEMS520 reading ELL strategies phonemic awareness phonics vocabulary fluency comprehension

started by Michelle Repokis on 06 Feb 12 3 follow-ups, last by Michelle Repokis on 12 Feb 12
anonymous

Journal # 1 - Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction - 2 views

Diana Metsisto, 2005, http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/105137/chapters/Reading-in-the-Mathematics-Classroom.aspx As a math teacher, I wanted to find some information on reading in my content...

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

Journal #1 - Unlocking Text Features in Expository Text - 6 views

You did a nice job of summarizing the article and making connections to your own practice. Around 1990, I took a 2-week summer course on reading in the content areas. The instructor was actually ou...

TEMS520 reading strategies MS elementary expository text Identifying Important Info

started by Michelle Voelker on 30 Jan 12 1 follow-up, last by Linda Clinton on 30 Jan 12
Erin Visger

Journal #1 Reading Aloud: Are Students Ever Too Old? - 8 views

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr081.shtml This article was very benefical to me. First off I loved the title, Are Students Ever Too Old? In this case the question was asking, when are st...

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started by Erin Visger on 31 Jan 12 no follow-up yet
Linda Clinton

Book Review: Classroom Instruction that Works - 11 views

Please know that I genuinely am trying to get everything back within a week. Really, I am! ;)

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started by Brett Hewitt on 20 Feb 12 2 follow-ups, last by Linda Clinton on 26 Feb 12
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