Reading requires students to develop decoding skills. p. 10 Readers have to become individuals who read on their own. We have to teach students how to select “just right ” reading books. Within the literacy framework students read different complexities of texts independently. Students should encounter a variety of complex texts throughout the day. During social studies and science students read content level texts. Students should also read texts that are at their zone of proximal development. Teachers should assess students strengths in reading through observational surveys, running records, and informal notes. Through instructional scaffolding teachers guide students to appropriate strategies to apply the process of reading.
Explicitly teaching students decoding strategies will provide students with the skills to read and the ability to apply their knowledge of letter-sound relationships.
During literacy centers give students opportunities to use magnetic letters. Create activities for them to put them into alphabetical order while singing the alphabet song. Classrooms should be print rich. Students can look at written materials around the room and spot letters and familiar words (read/write the room.). Provide opportunities for students to write notes, and emails to friends and family. Students should be taught how to representing each sound they hear as they write. Explicitly teach students how to sound out a word.
Prompts: p. 139
Watch me check to see if my voice matches the print.
Look at all the letters in the word. Did they match your voice?
Fountas and Pinnell, Guiding Readers and Writers, 2001
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