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Chapter 1 Learning Aids

These exercises are designed to crystallize readers and teachers views on reading through self-reflection.

LA 1.1

The following could be used as a reflection exercise or in-class discussion to help teachers reflect on their own reading model.

Assessing Your Reading Model

1. Initial reading instruction should focus on learning the names of the letters of the alphabet:

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2. Phonics skills should be taught directly to young learners:



3. Word recognition in isolation is a vital early reading skill to learn::



4. Reading skills can be learned independently if students are in the right learning environment:



5. Learners should be involved in reading activities based on their interests:



6 Scripted reading instruction is superior to unscripted reading instruction:



7. Students learn phonics through their independent reading activities:



8. Whole-language instruction provides students opportunities to learn reading skills independently:



9. Phonics skills should be taught directly and systematically:



10. Beginning ESL students benefit from direct skills instruction:



11. Workbook activities help students learn the reading skills they need to read:



12. There is an important sequence to learning reading skills from letter names to comprehension:



13. A readers background knowledge helps her/him to predict and understand text:



14. ESL(ELL) students learn to read English best when skills such as phonics are taught in a systematic sequential fashion:



15. Bilingual instruction results in cognitive confusion for students:



16. Results of the National Reading Panel show that systematic phonics instruction is important:



17. Reading good childrens literature helps learners develop knowledge of phonics, word recognition, and comprehension skills:



18. Teaching ESL(ELL) students to recognize words in isolation is a valuable instructional approach:



19. Having ESL(ELL) students read and write from their first day in school is a good pedagogical approach:



20. ESL(ELL) students should learn to read first in their first languages:



LA 1.2

Write a paragraph that Articulates your own personal view of the second language reading process. Also discuss how your views influence your classroom practice. Compare your ideas with colleagues and see if you can come to some common agreements about theories beneficially affect classroom practice.

LA 1.3

Work with a partner or colleague to complete the grid below. Rank from 1 to 5 how each of these instructional approaches addresses each aspect of the big five Ideas in reading instruction. Number one would be the most effective approach for addressing a particular aspect of reading and number five would be the least effective. After you finish, get together with another pair and discuss your rankings as well as your reasons for your rankings.

Instructional approach

Phonemic awareness

Alphabetic principle

Fluency

Comprehension

Vocabulary

DRTA

Language experience

Initial teaching alphabet

Whole language

Critical literacy

Multiliteracies

LA 1.4

Go to Google Images and search for old classroom photos and modern classroom. Place one image each from old classroom and modern classroom photos side by side on the screen or a PowerPoint slide. How do you think these pictures reveal how literacy instruction has changed over the past hundred years?

LA 1.5

Some Informal Classroom Observations

When you have a chance to visit a classroom or you can make observations in your own classroom. Please do not sit in the back of a room and write notes or answer the following.

(1) What kind of reading program, if any, do you see in your classroom?

(2) What kinds of language are on the walls? Student work?

(3) Do you see any kind of phonics program? If so, what is it?

(4) Do you see any kind of vocabulary program? If so, what is it?

(5) How does the teacher manage the classroom? Are there instructional groups?

(6) What surprises you most about the classroom?

(7) What kind of lesson plan(s) did you see?

(8) What good tips did you learn about teaching, if any?

(9) What is the model of reading the teacher (or you hold)? How is it evident in classroom activities?

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