Teaching Reading
ELNG 310 Portfolio Activity Week 9
Teaching Reading
Names Karlee Andres, Crystal Flegel, Leanne Matthes
Scenario
You are a new gradeem 1 teacher in a school in an ‘at-risk’ neighbourhood. The school has performed poorly in provincial reading assessments and is under pressure to see more students reading at grade level by the end of grade 3 - as per Ministry goals.
The school is in a low income area and there is a high level of transience in the school. You have 24 students in your class. About half have self identified as Indigenous. There are also an increasing number of newcomer English language learners in the school.
The school is a vibrant and welcoming environment. Staff are committed and engaged with the community. There is an Indigenous Advocate on staff and an elder who visits the school on a regular basis.
Instructions
How will you develop your reading program? What are your priorities? What strategies will you use? Where will you begin?
In developing your response consider:
The range of typical readers
Readers who might not be seen as typical
Effective reading instruction
Gradual release of responsibility
Levelled reading programs
Engagement, fluency and comprehension
You may also want to draw on other conversations and materials from earlier in the semester.
How will you develop your reading program?
Daily 5 practices introduced one at a time
Levelled books that students are able to take home and read with their parents and bring back to get tested on
once students have read their levelled book fluently they can take a new book home to practice
once students have read 5 books at that level perfectly, they can move up a level
Sight works to work on weekly
sight words can be at different levels or to the interests of the student
What are your priorities?
creating a safe and welcoming environment in the classroom
What strategies will you use?
Word Wall - word/picture
this could be added to everyday
it could be a student lead bulletin board that they can make connections to
when making them visually appealing to students will make it more engaging to interact with
Colouring sight word workbooks
this could be for when students are done their work quickly to get extra practice
High-interest text
students will be more engaged and enjoy reading if it is something they are interested in
Reducing segregation practices
Empower learners to try new strategies
Audiobooks
Set up home/school activities - words for practice
sight words students would take home and practice
the levelled reading books would also be taken home to practice with the students family at home
Guided reading groups
Where will you begin?
Identify student interests
Brainstorm
Work to identify where the students are at