literate environment analysis presentation educ 6706 by: kyla ousley
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to use reading and writing
for a variety of tasks both in and outside of school
(Tompkins, 2010).
The goal of literacy instruction is to ensure all
students’ achieve their full literacy potential.
Educator:“Effective Instruction”
oCompetenceoCaring
oCapability
Reading Instruction:“Selecting Text”
oTypes of textoAssessment
oProfile
Readers:“Getting to Know Students”
oCultureoHome EnvironmentoNeeds & Interests
oSocioeconomic Status
Reading:“Interactive Perspective”
oFluencyoComprehension
oWriting
Vital Signs of Literacy
Getting to Know Literacy Learners
It is not what we are teaching, rather who we are teaching (Laureate Education Inc.,
2010).
Assessing both cognitive and noncognitive aspects is crucial in teaching students’ because for students to become effective life-long learners they must have both the skill and the will to read (Johns & Lenski, 1994).
Assessing the “other” is just as important as assessing a students’ cognitive abilities. Factors such as motivation, interest, and attitudes toward reading are helpful in improving a student’s ability to read. These assessments help fill the gap in a teacher’s understanding of high-quality teaching of reading, resultant student learning, and student growth that compliments cognitive achievement (Afflerbach, 2007).
Activities for Getting to
know Literacy Learners:
Noncognitive: Me Stew
Literacy Autobiographies Interest Surveys
Cognitive: Repeated Readings (fluency) DRA (Developmental reading
assessment Sight Word Assessments
Getting to Know Literacy Learners
Selecting Text
Teachers must choose engaging text that appeal to students’ identities; cultural,
community, gender, developmental (Laureate
Education Inc., 2009).
Selecting text is a crucial part of reading. Selecting text that is too difficult can frustrate students while selecting a text too easy can lose the reader’s attention (Laureate Education Inc., 2010).
Text must be engaging, at a student’s ability level and connect to their multiple identities for students to achieve success (Laureate 2009).
* Dimensions of Difficulty* Readability Text Length
Text Structure Size of Print
Visual Supports
*These dimensions of difficulty help teachers choose appropriate
text for each student.
Literacy Matrix:Helps to balance reading
material presented to students. (Laureate
Education Inc., 2009). Students need to be
exposed to a variety of text and text structures.
Linguistic
Narrative + Informational
Semiotic (pictures, icons).
Selecting Text
Literacy PerspectivesInteractive
CriticalResponse
All three perspectives are key components in creating a literate environment
(Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
Once teachers know their students, they need to determine what they’re going to do with those texts, and for those students
to help them become literate learners (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
Interactive Perspective
Teaching students how to read and become strategic
processors and thinkers (Laureate Education Inc.,
2010).
Strategic processing must be threaded through all “Five Pillars of Literacy,” (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
The Five Pillars include; phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, & comprehension. Each of these components is crucial for effective reading instruction (Allington, 2005).
Teach students to be reflective and self-regulating, becoming independent readers that process text (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
*Students learn to*1. Choose most effective
strategy when reading,2. Use different strategies for
different types of text.3. Make predictions, visualize,
make sense of text.
Activities for teaching Interactive Perspective:
Word recognition activities
Comprehension activities (answering
questions, story maps, diagrams).
Interactive Read-Alouds
Reader’s Theatre Choral Reading
Interactive Writing activities
Critical Perspective
Teaching students to critically examine text. To
look at text from a different perspective
(Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
In the Critical Perspective students are required to look at text through
a different perspective. Students look beyond the text (Laureate
Education Inc., 2009).
Critical literacy is a way of being that challenges texts and life, as we know it. Critical literacy focuses on
issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and
action (Molden, 2007).
Critical literacy encourages readers to be active participants in the reading process: to question, to dispute, and to examine power
relations (Molden, 2007).
Being able to have a discussion with others about the different meanings a text might have and teaching the potentially critically-literate learner how to think flexibly about it.
Activities to incorporate
Critical Perspective:
Author’s Chair Open-Mind
Portraits Question-Answer
Relationship activities
Response Perspective
This perspective gives students the opportunity
to experience and respond to text (Laureate
Education Inc., 2009).
Reading, reacting, and responding to text in a
variety of meaningful ways. Students’ formulate a
personal response to text (Laureate Education Inc.,
2009).
Students’ interests and identities are used to select
text.
The reader’s lived experiences are primary
importance (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
A student who is responsive to a book can be transformed
by its message (Laureate Education Inc., 2009).
Activities to incorporate Response
Perspective
Grand Conversations
Reading Logs Hot Seat
Double-Entry journals
“Comprehension is the goal of reading; it’s the reason people read. Students
must understand what they’re reading to learn from the experience, they must make sense of the words
in text to maintain interest; and they must enjoy reading to become life long readers” (Tompkins, 2010).
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