Sharing our thinking about literacy learning
"He can't remember any of the words that I have taught him!" This is a common concern that I hear about struggling readers. We understand the importance of a child having an increasing bank of known words. A teacher should be concerned about a child who is struggling with word learning. What we might want …
Continue reading The Role of Visual Perception in Word Learning
Interactive writing is a great way to teach, model, and share an authentic writing task with a k-2 classroom community. Through interactive writing, students learn how print works and become problem solvers. The teacher is able to model and teach the students something that they can try during the interactive writing process or when they …
Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered system of support that was created to provide students the academic support they need. In theory, RTI would decrease the number of students misidentified for special education services, provide students with the support they need before they fail, and provide students with high-quality differentiated classroom instruction/interventions. Although RTI …
If you have been following my recent posts you know that I have been doing a lot of learning about how to best work with English Language Learners (ELLs) during their literacy intervention time. Here are the links to my previous posts. Supporting the Literacy Needs of English Language Learners English Language Learners: Supporting Comprehension …
Continue reading English Language Learners: Supporting Grammar During Literacy Intervention
As mentioned in my previous post, when planning reading intervention lessons for English Language Learners (ELLs) deep analysis of their running records is required to examine language-related errors versus literacy-related errors. Noticing and understanding language-related errors helps teachers scaffold their teaching in order to support students with building their oral vocabulary and expanding their knowledge …
Continue reading English Language Learners: Supporting Comprehension During Literacy Intervention
"...experiencing happy emotions during reading causes children to initiate more reading experiences. More reading experiences, of course, leads to more achievement in reading."
Up until the past few years, I have had limited experiences working with English Language Learners (ELLs) in the classroom and no experience working with them as a reading interventionist. As I began to work with ELLs to provide their reading intervention I realized that their profile was different from what I typically saw with …
Continue reading Supporting the Literacy Needs of English Language Learners
Shared reading is a highly beneficial way to spend 10-15 minutes of your instructional time daily. Shared reading is a time in which the teacher and students read an enlarged text at the same time (choral reading). Often the text is written on chart paper or projected by some means. It is important that the …
There is a fine line between providing a student the support he/she needs and doing the work for the student. Unfortunately, when we cross the line and provide our students with too much help we are stealing opportunities for them to : Develop a sense of agency Feel like a problem solver Take initiative Feel …
Continue reading Are We Providing Scaffolds or Swooping in for the Rescue?
"I do not teach the way I do because I love it. I teach the way I do because it is steeped in research and I see what the research suggests playing out in the results from my own students."
