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Purpose:
- Provide a good model of fluent and expressive reading
- expose chldren to a wide variety of story structures, genres, characters, and writing styles
- provide opportunities for writing
- provide opportunities for discussion
- increase cihldrens concept and vocabulary knoledge
- promote an enjoyable expericene with books
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to provide a critical language foundation for readng and writing success |
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Goal: to ensure that all children are successful readers, an approach that requires a sensitive and observant teacher who understands how children learn./ For children to read independently and silently
Purpose:
- enables the students to learn and pratice effective reading strategies
- provides opportunitied for students to experience success with appropriate challenge
- poriveds opportuinities for students to read a variety of text and genres
- lays the foundation for independent reading and problem-solving "on the run"
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Goal:to strengthen the language skills
Purpose:
- allows students to enjoy materials that they may not be able to read on their own.
- Ensures that all students feel successful by providing support to the entire group.
- Students act as though they are reading.
- Helps novice readers learn about the relationship between oral language and printed language.
- Assists students in learning where to look and/or focus their attention.
- Supports students as they gain awareness of symbols and print conventions, while constructing meaning from text read.
- Assists students in making connections between background knowledge and new information.
- Focuses on and helps develop concepts about print and phonemic connections.
- Helps in teaching frequently used vocabulary.
- Encourages prediction in reading.
- Helps students develop a sense of story and increases comprehension
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includes events that could actually happen and characters that coudl exist
characters are not actual people |
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is mostly imaginative
it is a form of narrative about characters and events that do not exist and oten includes magic and supernatural beings and/or events |
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body of literature inspired by efforts to reveal or demonstrate virtues or character flaws
characters are typically animals
short tale
moral or lesson taught
narrative structure |
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a true account of a persons entire ife written by someone else.
can take the form of a book, essay, film, or television show
captures the character of the person and their personality |
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composed of organized information for the purpose of informing the reader
tend to have a beginning, middle, and ending |
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If what the child reads makes sense, even though it is inaccurate then the child is probably applyin his knowledge of the world to his reading.
Ask: Does the error make sense? |
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does the child us visual information from the letters and words?
Ask: Is this error visually similar to the word in the text? Does it look right? |
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Is what the child said possible in English sentence?
Refers to grammar, the way our language works
Does the error sound right? Can we say it that way in english? |
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| Balanced Literacy Framework |
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1. Reading books to children
2. Independent Reading
3. Shared Reading
4. Writing about reading
5. Guided reading |
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Stages of Writing Development
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- Emerging
- Pictorial
- Pre-communicative
- Semi-phonetic
- Phonetic
- Transitional
- Convectional
- Advanced
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Tier one consists of the most basic words. These words rarely require direct instruction and
typically do not have multiple meanings. Sight words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and early reading words
occur at this level. Examples of tier one words are: book, girl, sad, run, dog, and orange. There about
8,000 word families in English included in tier one. |
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Tier two consists of high frequency words that occur across a variety of domains. That is, these
words occur often in mature language situations such as adult conversations and literature, and therefore
strongly influence speaking and reading. |
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Tier three consists of low-frequency words that occur in specific domains. Domains
include subjects in school, hobbies, occupations, geographic regions, technology, weather, etc.
We usually learn these words when a specific need arises, such as learning amino acid during a
chemistry lesson. Examples of tier three words are: economics, isotope, asphalt, Revolutionary
War, and, crepe. The remaining 400,000 words in English fall in this tier. |
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parts that make up words
IE: construction (3 syllables) |
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individual speech sounds blended together to compose words
IE: When you put /d/ /o/ /g/ together you get? |
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