Literacy Remediation

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by Rebecca Hendricks6 views·Updated Jul 7, 2022
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  1. Hi my name is Rebecca Hendricks and I
  2. am the kindergarten teacher at Comotto elementary school.
  3. I'm also working on becoming our literacy specialist.
  4. I'm getting my Masters and reading at Grand Canyon University
  5. and today I am going to briefly cover the
  6. components of reading and how they connect to writing.
  7. Give some instructional strategies to help teach
  8. the components of reading and writing,
  9. discuss the importance of assessments and progress
  10. monitoring and look at strategies to help students
  11. progress
  12. to help track student progress.
  13. Yeah
  14. there are five essential components of reading.
  15. There is funny Mick awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension,
  16. all of them together
  17. help students become proficient readers and writers.
  18. First we're going to talk about for anemic
  19. awareness because it is the foundation of reading.
  20. It is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate
  21. phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a spoken language. Um
  22. Anemic awareness is one of my favorite things to teach
  23. because it can be fun. Um The lessons are quick,
  24. the strategy, the strategies are quick and fun
  25. but phen emmick awareness can be a difficult concept
  26. but it's still my favorite to teach because it is so quick and fun.
  27. All the activities that we do on set and rhyme
  28. alliteration,
  29. deletion, all of the different ways for them to identify those units of sound,
  30. makes it fun,
  31. alliteration is my favorite like peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers or
  32. rhyming books from dr Seuss are some of the best ways for students to
  33. have fun with and identify
  34. different phone names.
  35. Next we're going to talk about phonics because phonics is the relationship between
  36. those phone names and a letter or letters of a written language.
  37. Um
  38. phonics instruction teaches students
  39. how to use those relationships to read and write.
  40. One of my favorite strategies is highlighting
  41. The different
  42. letters that make one sound.
  43. For instance th says
  44. students would go through and highlight all the words in a deco double text
  45. that have the sound.
  46. Okay
  47. next we're going to talk about vocabulary.
  48. There are four different types of vocabulary speaking, listening,
  49. reading and writing.
  50. I like to explain to people that
  51. how different they are by explaining.
  52. I can understand more spanish than I can speak a lot of the times. R E L. L.
  53. Students are the same way they can understand more than they can speak.
  54. Read or write.
  55. And the larger child's vocabulary is the more successful.
  56. They are going to be in reading and writing because of their comprehension,
  57. it really helps support comprehension
  58. vocabulary is one of those things that students pick up
  59. but we also need to explicitly teach it. Here's a word web that I like to use.
  60. They put the word in the middle and they put pictures
  61. and definitions around of every way that word can be used.
  62. Next. We're going to talk about fluency, fluency is the ability to read
  63. with accuracy at a good rate
  64. and with rhythmic flow. We don't want
  65. our students to skip over all of the
  66. punctuation. We don't want them to be slow, we want them
  67. to be able to decode,
  68. but we want them to decode fast enough that
  69. they don't lose the meaning in what they're reading.
  70. Um One of the best way strategies for fluency that
  71. I've come across is breaking words apart into chunks and
  72. so that when they come across words that they don't know,
  73. they know the chunks and they are quicker at decoding words.
  74. Okay.
  75. And it just takes practice practice practice reading every day
  76. comprehension is a cognitive process where readers and writers understand
  77. what they have read or what they are writing.
  78. Um It is the whole reason that we read is comprehension.
  79. The best way from
  80. the best strategy I know of to build comprehension
  81. is using prior knowledge before you read the book.
  82. On butterflies, discuss
  83. if they've seen butterflies outside so that it's
  84. a connection to the students and they understand
  85. and know that it
  86. know what they're going to be
  87. listening to or what they're going to be reading.
  88. Writing is a process just like reading is we do not
  89. want to skip steps because then we just frustrate our students.
  90. The best writing strategy that I have found to teach.
  91. Writing is writing centers because students are
  92. all over the place on their different levels
  93. of writing. And writing centers allow teachers to
  94. meet those individual students
  95. or in small groups and give frequent feedback because that
  96. is what is going to help them grow
  97. as writers. There can be planning writing, revising
  98. collaboration. Writing
  99. can be different types of senders
  100. assessment and progress monitoring
  101. are essential for student success in the classroom.
  102. Educators need to know where their students are in order to be able to
  103. meet them where they're at and help take them to the next step.
  104. Um,
  105. they,
  106. it is essential to find out what students know
  107. and so that you can provide the education that they need for
  108. them to continue to grow. Reading and writing. You want to know
  109. where they're struggling
  110. and
  111. what the next step to help them is and if you
  112. do not progress monitor and you do not assess students,
  113. you will not know exactly where they're at
  114. tracking student progress there.
  115. Three of my favorite strategies are pre assessments.
  116. Um,
  117. it is a way we do not have enough time in the
  118. school year to waste time teaching students things that they already know.
  119. So pre assessments are essential so that you know where your students are at.
  120. If they understand the skill, you do not have to work
  121. as long and as hard
  122. at teaching that skill or
  123. we don't,
  124. don't want to move on to something when they really missed this step over here.
  125. If they do not know their letters, they do not know
  126. and the sounds that match those letters,
  127. we don't want to be trying to push them to understand
  128. dia graphs and try graphs because
  129. they are missing a huge chunk over here.
  130. Um, setting smart goals and charts is one of my favorite things.
  131. Even in kindergarten, we sit down and we discuss what, what our goal is for the day,
  132. what our goal for the week is and they have
  133. little charts on how successful they feel like they're being.
  134. Um,
  135. this is a good way for students to take ownership
  136. and
  137. it is
  138. a good way to have a focus on what they're learning.
  139. The next one I like is exit tickets.
  140. Exit tickets look different for different teachers.
  141. I know some teachers that love to give them right before recess.
  142. My classes have always been small enough that
  143. I like to give them 5-10 minutes before the end of the
  144. before we leave the room because
  145. I want to reassess where the students are and support them.
  146. I like to walk around the room and ask questions that might be their exit tickets.
  147. If they understand the concept, then we're ready to go.
  148. If not, I need to take the next three minutes and
  149. maybe reteach it easy concept. Exit tickets are a good way to find out.
  150. Hey, do they understand what our goal for the day was? Did we reach our goal?
  151. A great online resource for
  152. supporting teachers for Reading and Writing is reading HZ They have
  153. some deco doubles. They have,
  154. there's so many resources in this one little spot that
  155. can help teachers provide differentiated instruction for their students.
  156. Reading specialists are here to help teachers.
  157. They're not here to judge or evaluate teachers. They are an essential resource that
  158. you want to be using.
  159. They can work with your students in small groups or with individual students
  160. in reading.
  161. They can provide professional development if
  162. you were really struggling with something
  163. they can provide you with,
  164. um, strategies, what
  165. and things that they know that may work can help you.
  166. They can also provide resources. If you are struggling to find
  167. resources to help one student, they can help you find
  168. valuable, good resources to help support your Children in your classroom.
  169. Thank you all very much for listening to my presentation.