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Jalongo and Heider (2006) Forty-six percent of new teachers in this country quit teaching after five years or less, with that percentage growing to fifty percent in urban areas. Even more shocking is the fact that ninety percent of teachers who are hired in this country are replacements for teachers who have left teaching for some reason other than retirement (p. 379).
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Lack of Parental
InvolvementPadgett (2006) cites reasons such as scheduling conflicts, lack of transportation, language barriers, and cultural differences as reasons many parents arehesitant to get involved with their child’s school. Other parents who may have had a less than enjoyable school experience may be reluctant to set foot back into that atmosphere (p. 45).
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Reading Epidemic
Boling and Evans (2008) report that more than eight million American students cannot read or comprehend what they read even at a basic level. They go on to say that more than seven thousand students drop out of school each day because they lack the literacy skills needed to be successful (p. 59).
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Massey (2007) With the increased emphasis on phonics in the primary grades, many students are becoming excellent word callers, while lacking in comprehension skills. As these students reach the intermediate grades, they may struggle to transition from word calling to text comprehension. (p. 656)
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Silverman (2006) calls on other content teachers to help out with this problem, saying that they also can assist struggling readers by structuring activities that will boost student performance in reading. Reading instruction is a responsibility shared by all teachers, regardless of grade level or content area (p. 71).
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When you think of academic literacy, how do you envision preparing students in your content area?
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Good readers as they read: Draw on background knowledge
Make predictions
Visualize the events of a text
Recognize confusion
Recognize a text's structure/organization
Identify/recognize a purpose for reading
Monitor strategies used according to the purpose for reading the text
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonetic Awareness
Vocabulary
Fluency
Comprehension
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By the time students reach middle school, many teachers assume students have strong phonemic awareness.
What does your experience tell you?
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Phonemic Awareness is the
ability to hear, discriminate, and manipulate the
sounds of language.
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relationship to reading success in all types of readers (Ehri, 1994).
Remedial readers generally have poor phonemic awareness (Bradly & Bryant, 1985).
Phonemic awareness training is most effective when instruction is brief and occurs daily.
All instruction helps, but small group instruction for phonemic awareness is more effective than large group or one-on-one instruction (Bus & van Ijzendoorn, 1999).
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Phonics is the ability to:
1) learn the alphabetic system known as
letter-sound or phonemic awareness
2) apply this knowledge during reading by blending the sounds into words (decoding)
3) apply this knowledge during writing by spelling words (encoding).
Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships between letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
Phonics instruction is effective when it is systematic (instruction includes a selected set of letter-sounds organized into a logical sequence) and explicit (precise teaching of these relationships).
Systematic and explicit phonics instruction improves children’s word recognition, spelling, and reading comprehension.
Effective phonics programs provide ample opportunities for children to apply what they are learning about letters and sounds to the reading of words, sentences, and stories.
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Phonemic and Phonics instruction is primarily for lower grades and language arts teachers to monitor and adjust as needed by individual students.
What can content area teachers do?
Teach explicitly Greek and Latin Roots of dominate words of focus in content areas.
Inform Language Arts Teachers of words being used for each unit.
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ryVocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively.
Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening.
Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.
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ryVocabulary is important because readers use their oral vocabulary to make sense of words they see in print.
Readers must know what words mean before they can understand what they are reading.
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ryVocabulary can be developed:
Indirectly when students engage daily in oral language, listen to adults read to them, and read extensively on their own.
Directly when students are explicitly taught both individual words and word learning strategies.
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Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately and quickly.
Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read or in other words make connections.
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Reading fluency can be developed by modeling fluent reading and by having students engage in repeated oral reading.
Monitoring student progress in reading fluency is useful in evaluating instruction and setting instructional goals and can be motivating to students.
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nThe process of constructing meaning from text.
Text comprehension is important because comprehension is the reason for reading.
Text comprehension is purposeful and active.
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nComprehension can be developed by teaching reading comprehension strategies.
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Through explicit instructionThrough cooperative learningBy helping readers to use
strategies flexibly and in combinations.
Comprehension strategies can be taught:
Resourceshttp://www.catawba.k12.nc.us/C_i_resources/Foldables.htm
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