Reading Development: December 2010

About this blog....

This blog was designed to help elementary teachers teaching reading. We learned about fluency, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension throughout this course.

The text that we used as our main source was: Literacy for the 21^st Century; A Balanced Approach 5^th Edition by Gail E. Tompkins. We also used Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller.

I am a strong believer in self-discovery. As “silly” as it sounds I do urge that if you are curious or looking for a certain idea just to ‘google’ it. By simply searching for yourself will give you the power to teach your students to the highest expectations.

Also, for future reference for myself and for others by going www.scribd.com you can upload PDF or word documents to the site and they then give you a code to copy and paste into your blog. That is how I was able to upload the PDF’s as seen below.

You can also check out my other classroom blog (that probably needs a makeover compared to this) by clicking on the link to the right. This class offered some good information, however, I plan on teaching upper division math and feel as if I might not use this as much I used my other classes (like my major history paper I wrote). But only time will tell!

One of my favorite links is: www.readinga-z.com I also really enjoy the below think sheet.

So I hope that this helps and good luck to everyone.

Somebody Wanted but So

Literacy Project

Below is my literacy project which includes: my literature focus unit, a minilesson from the focus unit, a reflection of the class. After that I have also uploaded the rubric in which my professor was grading us on. This is my final for the class so I am very excited to have it accomplished!

Also please note that when uploading these to www.scribd.com that some of the format was lost and they don't look as neat as they might have on my computer.

Literacy Project

DRProjectRubric

LIterature Focus Unit

My literature focus unit is over historical hardships. What I am uploading is the assignment I have completed. It is not yet finish, so there is always work to be done! Enjoy!

This is my edited version that I fixed after grading! Enjoy

Literature Focus Unit

Mini-lessons

These mini-lessons followed her outline.

Mini Lesson

First Lesson

minilesson2[1]

Papers for the class

Chapter 10

Reading With Meaning

EDOK Assignments

Below are three EDOK assignments that I completed. The fourth document is the sample our professor gave us.

Edok 1 Phonics

Edok 2 Fluency

Edok 3 Readers Factors

Edok 1 Sample

Helpful Websites

www.dese.mo.gov

The following list will provide helpful websites, organized in certaincategories.

one of my favorites: http://learner.org/ and http://learner.org/resources/series175.html#

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/

http://mssu.blackboard.com/courses/1/Cozens_J_Educ342_Fall/content/_849261_1/Balanced%20Early%20Literacy%20-%20Running%20Records%20FAQ%20-%20School%20District%20of%20Philadelphia%20Curriculum%20Frameworks.htm this is an excellent source on running records

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849263_1&displayName=Running+Records+example&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.learnnc.org%2Flp%2Feditions%2Freadassess%2F1.0

http://www.antbee.com/default.asp

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849269_1&displayName=DIBELS&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=https%3A%2F%2Fdibels.uoregon.edu%2F

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849272_1&displayName=Companion+Website&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwps.prenhall.com%2Fchet_tompkins_literacy_4%2F33%2F8520%2F2181282.cw%2Findex.html

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_888320_1&displayName=Conferring+with+Anna+%28VIDEO%29&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.choiceliteracy.com%2Fpublic%2F115.cfm

http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_reutzel_bridge_1/

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849189_1&displayName=Reader%27s+Workshop&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bayvieweduc.ednet.ns.ca%2FSmoran%2FReader%27sworkshop%2Freader%27sworkshopindex.htm

http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/preview.html

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849193_1&displayName=Read%2FWrite%2FThink&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwritethink.org%2F

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849194_1&displayName=Missouri+Reading+Initiative&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fmissourireadinginitiative.com%2F

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/347

http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/k-1/activities/phonemic.html

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849293_1&displayName=Aaron+Shepard&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaronshep.com%2Frt%2FRTE.html

http://mssu.blackboard.com/courses/1/Cozens_J_Educ342_Fall/content/_849295_1/Script%20for%20The%20Little%20Old%20lady%20Who%20Was%20Not%20Afraid%20of%20Anything.htm

http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849299_1&displayName=Oral+Reading+Rubric&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nwrel.org%2Fassessment%2FpdfRubrics%2Fk3devcontoral.PDF

http://mssu.blackboard.com/courses/1/Cozens_J_Educ342_Fall/content/_849322_1/WISH%20YOU%20WELL%20%20After-Reading%20%20Somebody%20Wanted%20But%20So.htm

http://mssu.blackboard.com/@@/98423C9F556E52AB7F6A104CD4DBE405/courses/1/Cozens_J_Educ342_Fall/content/_849331_1/themes%20of%20the%20story.pdf

http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/read/theme2.html

http://mssu.blackboard.com/courses/1/Cozens_J_Educ342_Fall/content/_849375_1/LitFocusIndex.htm

http://mssu.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/contentWrapper.jsp?content_id=_849388_1&displayName=Angela%27s+Classroom&course_id=_21866_1&navItem=content&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Farticle.jsp%3Fid%3D3749896

Chapter Twelve

More great information!

Excellent Reading Teachers Position Statement

LFU - RFG

Making Words Article

RFG -Sample 1

Chapter Eleven

This is over differential instruction... Excellent!

DIinElementaryGrades

MappingaRouteToward_DI

Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades

Chapter Ten

Focus Unit

Native American Unit Within the Multicultural Literature Class

Chapter Nine

For this chapter also go to site go the site reading a-z where you can find a lot of great PDF 'little books' for the kids to make!

BME

Themes of the Story

Chapter Eight

This has a lot of good information, as does chapter nine! Enjoy!

Comprehension Books Library

Comprehension Card Games

Comprehension Minibooks

Double-nickel Stories (SWTB) Rdg Response

Nonfict Passages With Graphic Organizers

Reading Response Journals

Share Your Passion for Reading Through

Somebody Wanted but So

Start

swbs

The Beach

Chapter Three

For chapter three I offer the following documents:

Checklist

Balanced Early Literacy

Running Records 1

Running Records 2

Summative Assessment Scoring Guide

Chapter Two

Chapter actually did not have any documents. However, for any information you need please google! It's my favorite tool. Just make sure to find resources that reliable.

Chapter One

Back-to-school ABC book. This is an activity that can be done across the grades! Share with students some ABC books from the school or town library and tell them that they will be working together to create a Back-to-School ABC Book. Assign a letter of the alphabet to each student. Brainstorm with students possible words for each letter or allow each student to choose his or her own word. Explain that the words must be related to activities associated with school. Of course, the difficulty of the words will vary, depending on the grade level of the students. For example, A might be represented by the words art, abacus, attendance, algebra, addition, advisor, athletics, auditorium, alphabet, answer key, apple, arithmetic, announcement, award, A-V, aide, or assistant principal. Finally, have each student illustrate his or her word. Combine the pictures to create a book. Display the book in the classroom or school library. As an extra challenge, you might limit older students to choosing adjectives; no nouns allowed!

Chapter one

Excellent Reading Teachers-position Statement

http://www.scribd.com/full/44936601?access_key=key-rxryoldee4gm4pw7hk7

Wednesday, December 8, 2010