Teaching Reading in the Greek Fashion

Greek

Latin

The Hornbook

• The ABC Method• Letters of the alphabet• Memorize them forwards• Memorize them backwards• Practice reading syllables aloud• Reading aloud with the teacher

McGuffey

• Grade Levels• Teacher’s Guide• Directed to good oral reading

Horace Mann

• Review of classroom teaching• 5/8 of instruction is bad• Students look like fish

The Industrial Revolution

• Women in teaching• Beginning of disappearance of one-room

school houses• Teacher training

Edmond Burke Huey - 1906

• Silent reading• The silliness of ba, be, bi, bo• The most influential development in

reading pedagogy

Vocabulary Control

• Words in students’ spoken vocabulary• Introduce a few at a time• Repeat them often enough for students to

learn them• Teachers are changed forever!

High Frequency Vocabulary

• What’s right with them?• What’s wrong with them?

Dolch - 1936

• 220 Service Words• Textbooks – and Dolch• In use today in many classrooms

Publishers and Reading

• Soldiers – World War I• Teachers responsible for low reading

achievement• Lack of adequate training• Lack of adequate support

William S. Gray

• Directed Reading Approach (DRA)• Introduce Background• Introduce New Vocabulary• Guided Reading• Comprehension Check• Related Skills Instruction

William S. Gray

• Readers should contain real characters that beginning readers can relate to.

• Advanced teacher’s guides• Directed Reading Approach (DRA)

Directed Reading Approach (DRA)

• Introduction – Background• Introduce New Vocabulary• Guided Reading• Comprehension Check• Skills Instruction

DRA

• DRA is widely used to teach reading• Are there advantages/disadvantages?