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Teaching Reading: Welcome, Students!
Teaching Reading: Welcome, Students!
Welcome, students!
Five Components of Reading
Instruction
• Phonological
Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
Phonological Awareness
Training
• Phonological awareness- manipulating and
identifying parts of spoken language (i.e.
words, syllables, onsets and rimes, and
phonemes)
• Phonemic awareness- conscious awareness
that spoken language is made up of individual
sounds (i.e. phonemes)
Enhancing effectiveness
• Focus first on auditory features of words
• Move from explicit, natural segments of language to
the more implicit and complex.
• Use of phonological properties and dimensions of
words to enhance performance.
• Scaffold, blending and segmenting through explicit
modeling.
• Integrate letter-sound correspondence once learners
are proficient with auditory tasks.
Phonemic
Awareness
Activity
Phonics
• Introduce print (letters and words)
paired with corresponding sounds
Peer-assisted reading is especially for English Language
Learners, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds,
learning disabilities, emotional disabilities, and mental
disabilities.
Keyword Method
This method relies on memorization based on visual
imagery:
1. Recoding: changing the vocabulary word into a
keyword that goes with a visual image (ex. ape for
apex).
2. Relating: integrating the keyword with the definition (ex.
ape sitting at the highest point [apex] of a rock)
3. Retrieving: recalling the definition by thinking of the
keyword and the picture.
Reciprocal Teaching
This method is an interactive teaching strategy that
promotes text comprehension:
1. Predicting: drawing inferences from clues in the text or
prior knowledge.
2. Question generating: main idea questions about the
text to learn to identify information.
3. Summarizing: different ways to explore the text (ie.
creating topic sentences, list content, and discard
unimpportant or repeated information.
4. Clarifying: considering why a text was difficult and
teaching rereading as a strategy.
Mapping Strategies
This is a schema-building technique using a
pictorial storyboard map for a graphic organized.
Students fill in the map as they read, including
things like: setting, problem, goal, action, and
outcome.
High Interest-Low
Vocabulary Method
These readers offer older students more engaging
stories while keeping a relatively easy vocabulary.
These include mysteries, sports, adventure,
science and classic literature and are published by
a variety of distributers.
Life Skills Reading
Life skills reading focuses on words and phrases that
students must know to function while shopping,
employed, enjoying recreation and at home.
Examples: danger, men, woman, restroom, up, down,
exit, telephone, poison, police, first aid, stop, walk, do
not enter etc.
Drill and Practice Activities
• Pre-reading Activities:
o Concepts about Print
o Phonological Awareness
• Word-Attack Activities
• Fluency Activities
• Vocabulary Activities
• Comprehension Activities
Computer Software Programs for
Reading
• Let's Go Read
o Incorporates phonics and whole language (PreK-First Grade)
• My Reading Coach
o Phonemic awareness, phonics sounds/rules, vocabulary, syntactic
processing, reading comprehension (6yrs and up)
• Reading Blaster
o (4-6, 5-7, 6-8, 9-12 yrs)
• Working Phonics
o 84 phonics activities, 900 basic reading words, 400 sight words (K-8th
grade)
Designing a Reading Program
• Use effective teaching principles
• Provide pre-reading experiences
• Consider the nature of reading
development
• Provide explicit and implicit reading
instruction
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