Chapter 3: The Six Components of Reading (From the upcoming Teachers’ Workbook for Roadmap for Reading Instruction. See chapter three of Roadmap for Reading Instruction for the content that corresponds to these activities.) A. Understanding and Recall Respond to the following questions and activities to ensure that you have a basic understanding of the chapter…
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Chapter 2: Principles for Reading Instruction (From the upcoming Teachers’ Workbook for Roadmap for Reading Instruction. See chapter two of Roadmap for Reading Instruction for the content that corresponds to these activities.) A. Understanding and Recall Respond to the following questions and activities to ensure that you have a basic understanding of the chapter content….
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Chapter 1: Environment for Learning (From the upcoming Teachers’ Workbook for Roadmap for Reading Instruction. See chapter one of Roadmap for Reading Instruction for the content that corresponds to these activities.) A. Understanding and Recall Respond to the following questions and activities to ensure that you have a basic understanding of the chapter content. 1….
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Study of State Assessment Results and Instructional Approach Whether or not you like the PARCC assessment, it is used to evaluate students, teachers, schools, and school districts. It also provides a consistent, independent measure to examine changes in student performance. A couple of months ago, I analyzed the 2017 state assessment results for third-grade students…
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The Word Discovery Process What Strong Readers Do with New Words When people with good reading skills encounter new words in text, they generally follow the same process for figuring out what those words mean. (This assumes, of course, that they do not skip over the words.) They follow a process of decoding and discovery….
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Suggested Readings For more information about the concepts and topics in this book, take a look at the following resources. (All links open in a new page.) Bloom’s Taxonomy (n.a.). “Bloom’s Taxonomy questions”. http://www.bloomstaxonomy.org/Blooms%20Taxonomy%20questions.pdf Brooke, E. (n.a.). “The critical role of oral language in reading instruction and assessment”. Lexia Learning. https://www.lexialearning.com/resources/white-papers/oral-language Butler, S., Urrutia, K.,…
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Sample Reading Activities Phonics The following activities and brief descriptions are sample activities to address the various reading components. These activities may or may not work for your students. Consider whether or not they will be useful to you, how you might modify them for your students, and what other ideas they might suggest. Oral…
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Sample Reading Activities Comprehension The following activities and brief descriptions are sample activities to address the various reading components. These activities may or may not work for your students. Consider whether or not they will be useful to you, how you might modify them for your students, and what other ideas they might suggest. Oral…
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Sample Reading Activities Vocabulary The following activities and brief descriptions are sample activities to address the various reading components. These activities may or may not work for your students. Consider whether or not they will be useful to you, how you might modify them for your students, and what other ideas they might suggest. Oral…
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Sample Reading Activities Fluency The following activities and brief descriptions are sample activities to address the various reading components. These activities may or may not work for your students. Consider whether or not they will be useful to you, how you might modify them for your students, and what other ideas they might suggest. Oral…
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