Week 7

• What texts and materials do teachers have in their classrooms that support students' development of fluent reading? The texts and materials teachers have in their classroom to support students development of fluent reading include having a classroom library categorized by genre and worksheets

• How do they select vocabulary to teach in all areas of your curriculum? In accordance to the lesson being taught.

• How much time do they allocate to word study? 5- 10 minutes per week

• What word study routines do they teach and encourage their students to use? They utilize multiple word routines that include the following: breaking apart words, word clues and sounding out words.

 

• How do they differentiate instruction and tasks based on their students' needs? Instruction is differentiated by assigning tasks to students in accordance to their ability level. For example, in reading easier texts are assigned to weaker readers and more difficult texts are assigned to stronger readers.

 

1.     How can you ensure that your struggling readers have access to texts they can easily read? Having an array of books with a balance of a ability levels.

 

2. How can you foster a learning environment in which students have many opportunities to practice reading? Maintaining a classroom library and incorporating reading activities

3. Describe ways in which you can model fluent reading in your classroom throughout the day. Do read alouds, and side by side activities

 

1.     Explain the three levels of words and how you can use word levels to decide which words

Look, bed, run :familiar words

Hurricane, democracy, freeway: need to teach

Legislature, words from chemistry and biology: technical words

 

2. How do you teach your students to "chunk" words as a strategy for decoding unfamiliar words? When do you provide this instruction? Tear apart words, when students have difficulty with the meaning of the words.

3. Based on Professor Allington's comments and the classroom examples, what are some ways you might foster word study in your classroom? Word clues and group sessions of learning prefixes of words.