Presenters: Christeen Boone-Owens and Elaine Wilson
Subject Area: Language Arts
Reading Instruction Framework:
Word Knowledge
Fluency
Reading Comprehension
Writing
Goals: Illinois State Goal 1:
Read with understanding and fluency
Illinois State Goal 2: Understanding meaning in a variety of material
Illinois State Goal 3: Write to communicate for a variety of purposes
Time: Students must receive at
least 2-3 hours of
reading and writing instruction each day.
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DID YOU KNOW???
3 hours per day is more appropriate whenARE THE CHILDREN LEARNING....HOW DO YOU KNOW ???
greater achievement gains are desirable !Only activities that will improve achievement
count as instructional time !Instruction needs to emphasize the
4 Framework components !The 4 Framework components are equally
important --- They require the same
instruction emphasis at every grade level !Engaged learning activities are preferred !
Ways need to be found to increase learning
opportunities outside school!Ongoing assessment is essential to student
and program success !
Word Knowledge (Graphic)
To be successful readers, students must have:
-extensive sight vocabularies - SIGHT WORDS
- effective decoding and spelling skills - PHONEMIC AWARENESS & PHONICS
- rich, meaningful vocabularies - VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
To be successful readers, students must read text:
quickly - accurately - with proper expressionTop
To be successful readers, students must:-understand what kinds of information are important
- know how an author organizes text
-have independent strategies that allow them to make
sense of an author's message and to use text powerfully-
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To be successful writers, students must:
- be able to write effectively for different audiences
- be able to write text effectively for different purposes
- have strategies that allow them to indepently solve the problems
of writingThese are important links which support reading and literacy. To find information abut No Child Left Behind on the national level see:
http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp . To find out about No Child Left Behind for Illinois go to http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ . You may find out the latest information about Corey H ., recertification,certification and Reading First
all at the Illinois site. Wow!
Looking for a NATIONAL, STATE and LOCAL PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS related to reading? Just Click http://www.reading.org/index.html This is the International Reading Association site.
RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS are found at all the sites, however; one of my favorite sites is http://cps.k12.il.us Check them out!! You will be suprised at the wealth of information that is available to you for just a FEW CLICKS!
Links for Teachers
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