See also, for application to teaching: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/communications/literacy-today/literacy-today-rights-to-read.pdf
Category: 4. Teaching Reading
Sep 16
Differentiating for student engagement and success is first a mindset
Click on the link below to open this brief video from Education Week, showing how to begin thinking about and providing differentiated opportunities for your students! https://video.edweek.org/detail/video/5833607063001/differentiating-instruction-its-not-as-hard-as-you-think?autoStart=true&cmp=eml-enl-cc-mostpop-rm&M=58609547&U=1988343
Aug 31
Teaching Close Reading & Visual Thinking Skills
— using Photo & 8 Min. Films from the New York Times and The Learning Network: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/10-intriguing-photographs-to-teach-close-reading-and-visual-thinking-skills/ 10 Intriguing Photographs to Teach Close Reading and Visual Thinking Skills BY MICHAEL GONCHAR FEBRUARY 27, 2015 7:00 AM 8 Compelling Mini-Documentaries to Teach Close Reading and Critical Thinking Skills https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/8-compelling-mini-documentaries-to-teach-close-reading-and-critical-thinking-skills/
Aug 30
Setting Up Independent Work So You Can Meet 0ne-On-One with Students
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Setting Up Norms for Independent Work
One-on-one conferences with students are a valuable use of class time—provided the other students are able to work quietly on their own.
By Jori Krulder
May 14, 2018
Jul 25
ILA Choice Reading Lists: Children’s Choices, Teachers’ Choices & Young Adults’ Choices
https://literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/reading-lists/choices-2018-reading-lists.pdf
Apr 26
Helping Students Do Research in the Stacks, by Sarah Cooper.
Source: https://www.middleweb.com/37411/helping-students-do-research-in-the-stacks/ A MiddleWeb Blog, 4/10/2018 So how do we turn students into the indefatigable history detectives we’d like them to be? They are used to trying different search terms on a screen, but when it comes to wandering the stacks, sometimes they don’t know where to begin. The steps below may seem obvious. But …
Mar 22
Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development & Scaffolded Literacy
Although not updated since 2011, this site from Dr. Olenka S.E. Bilash at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, is an outstanding resource for improving teaching and learning, and improving second language education. https://sites.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.bilash/Best%20of%20Bilash/vygotsky.html Scroll down to see an example of how the ZPD might relate to the development of reading. Note the scaffolding/Gradual Release …
Feb 27
The Importance and Use of Student Self-Selected Literature to Reading Engagement in an Elementary Reading Curriculum
http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=reading_horizons The Importance and Use of Student Self-Selected Literature to Reading Engagement in an Elementary Reading Curriculum Denise Johnson and Anne Blair Abstract “The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of student self-selecting literature and reading engagement in an elementary reading curriculum. The article discuses the use of self- selected reading in …
Feb 27
Resources for Literature Circles and More!
Looking for a few good books to get your literature circles off the ground? Click on the following links for some suggestions from teachers around the country: http://www.litcircles.org/Books/books.html
Nov 26
How are Listening and Reading Related? – Listenwise Blog
As humans, we have so many important ways we convey and understand information as we communicate. We are born with ears, and are never actually taught how to listen—it’s understood how to do it, we just start. As kids we grow up learning how to speak by listening to the people who are close to …
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