For students in elementary school, literacy opens the door to lifelong learning and opportunities for success. Effective elementary literacy instruction develops students' thinking skills by integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening into daily classroom activities. A successful literacy program relies upon the leadership, teaching capacity, and teamwork of school staff members.
Literacy is the foundation of all learning. It includes the tools necessary to acquire new knowledge and skills and to communicate with others.
One of the greatest challenges for a teacher is responding to the question: What is my child's reading level?
Because there are so many factors impacting literacy, it is difficult to narrow down to a single number. A student may be proficient in reading words, but cannot make sense of the text as a whole. While other students get a global understanding of the text, but not able to retell the details of the reading.
There are many components to literacy: phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, spelling, writing, speaking, and listening. Identifying those areas in which a student has strengths can facilitate the progress in the areas of need. I work with my students to help them to understand the complexities of literacy and which areas they need to improve.
As a reading specialist, I work closely with students whose educational progress has been impeded by reading and other learning deficits. By the time these struggling readers have reached middle or high school, they have often learned compensatory skills that may have served them well. This makes it difficult to assess their needs, especially until they feel safe enough to trust the process.
With the new Common Core State Standards, Literacy has been brought to the forefront in education. All content areas share responsibility in advancing the literacy skills of students. As a reading specialist, I work with the content area teachers to integrate these skills lessons into their teaching.
Literacy is the foundation of all learning. It includes the tools necessary to acquire new knowledge and skills and to communicate with others.
One of the greatest challenges for a teacher is responding to the question: What is my child's reading level?
Because there are so many factors impacting literacy, it is difficult to narrow down to a single number. A student may be proficient in reading words, but cannot make sense of the text as a whole. While other students get a global understanding of the text, but not able to retell the details of the reading.
There are many components to literacy: phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, spelling, writing, speaking, and listening. Identifying those areas in which a student has strengths can facilitate the progress in the areas of need. I work with my students to help them to understand the complexities of literacy and which areas they need to improve.
As a reading specialist, I work closely with students whose educational progress has been impeded by reading and other learning deficits. By the time these struggling readers have reached middle or high school, they have often learned compensatory skills that may have served them well. This makes it difficult to assess their needs, especially until they feel safe enough to trust the process.
With the new Common Core State Standards, Literacy has been brought to the forefront in education. All content areas share responsibility in advancing the literacy skills of students. As a reading specialist, I work with the content area teachers to integrate these skills lessons into their teaching.
D. Demonstration Teaching
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International Reading Association Standard
(2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1) Identification of Specific Need Big 5 Rationale Using The Big 5 Daily in Contextual Reading Lesson Plan(s) Student Grouping Research Student Grouping Example Shared Reading Using The Big 5 Instructional Teaching Practices Shared Reading QAR Reciprocal Reading Rationale Reciprocal Teaching Evaluate Student Learning Shared Reading Formative Observation Guide DRA2 |