Here are some resources to help elementary school parents support their children in learning to read at home. Please feel free to use if this is of use to you: Links for Parents (for any reading series) Links for Parents Using Open Court Reading page 1 | page 2
Category: Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Strategies Posters V.3
Last year, I posted a redesign of the comprehension strategies we use with our reading series. I’ve tweaked the posters a bit and am now re-posting them. For the uninitiated, the explicit teaching of reading strategies is supported by current research on reading comprehension instruction. (See Put Reading First for more information). A few versions …
How to Explicitly Teach a Strategy
As I’ve posted before, decoding isn’t everything. Students also need strategies to know how to comprehend and make sense of text. This is sometimes hard for teachers to believe because as adults, we’ve already internalized reading comprehension strategies like clarifying and predicting. I vaguely remember being taught about inferencing in school, I think most of …
Reading and Storytelling Resources
The librarian at one of my schools this year is published illustrator, Diane Greenseid, who has a great web site herself. She also recommended the following sites that were new to me: Just One More Book Audio interviews with authors and illustrators compiled. You’ll find almost any author on this site. Guys Read, a site …
Parent Resources to Support Reading At Home
Here are the slides from a parent workshop I led for parents on how to help your child learn to read at home. This was for an audience of several English Language Learners and so there is some Spanish and references to Spanish mixed in. I tried to keep the slideshow as visual as possible. …
Reading Comprehension is Not a Commodity
Angela Maiers presents this slideshow on reading comprehension. I wish I had attended the actual workshop, however, the slideshow still raises several important points about reading. My favorite among them is the part about how we offer ridiculous extrinsic incentives for reading that have little to do with fostering a genuine love of reading. The …
Comprehension Strategies: Part Two Where Are We Going Wrong?
The strategies we use with our reading program are: Asking Questions Clarifying Predicting Visualizing Summarizing Making Connections Download Reading Strategy Posters Nevertheless, in most classrooms students understand predicting and that’s about it. Or students can clarify when the teacher says, “Clarify” but they’ll rarely choose to use the strategy of clarifying on their own. Where …
Comprehension Strategies: Part One Why?
Explicit teaching of comprehension strategies is a part of both currently approved reading series in California and will likely be a part of whatever new program is adopted. I speak for myself, an English major, when I say that I initially found the teaching of strategies to be silly. I mean, I just read stuff …
Google Literacy Project Page
Here’s an interesting page which gathers literacy movies, blogs, lessons, etc that are contained on Google’s Pages: http://www.google.com/literacy/ It also asks you to share what you are doing.
Free Stuff for Teacher Appreciation Week
Learning A-Z is offering free resources this week. I’m not a big fan of worksheets but they’re not all worksheets. Today they have free downloadable books. You will need to log-in and create an account. May 05 http://www.readinga-z.com Thousands of printable books, including leveled readers and supporting materials May 06 http://www.raz-kids.com Interactive leveled reading library …