Literacy

Literacy

1. Brandie Ferrell

2. Language Development

   • Exposure to words at a young age increased comprehension
     • Socioeconomic status (SES) can impact language development at a young age because of the amount of words and variety of words a child is regularly exposed to.
   • development of oral language improves reading comprehension
   • Distinctiveness vs. Commonality
   • Intentional oral language instruction

3. Phonological Processing and Decoding

   • 4 ways to read words
     • phonological recoding
       • Phoneme: Letter sounds
       • Grapheme: Letter clusters
       • Morpheme: Common letter string
     • Analogy
     • Prediciting
     • Site word recognition
   • Letter Knowledge
   • Phonological Processing Skills
     • Phonological Awareness
     • Rapid automatized naming
     • Verbal short-term memory

4. Fluency

   • Improves automaticity
     • Improves prosody and comprehension
       • Expressive reading
       • Recognize patterns of rhythm and sound
   • Site word recognition improves fluency
   • School-based strategies
     • Fluency Development Lesson (FDL)
       • Establishment of routines
       • Instruction of learning protocols
       • MAPPS
       • Intentional text-selection
     • Scaffolded silent reading
   • Home strategies
     • Paired reading
     • Read-alouds
     • Watching TV with the captions on

5. Vocabulary

   • 5 Day plan for instructing vocabulary
     • Multiple exposures to a work in different contexts
     • Formal definitions and context
     • Deep processing
   • Academic word list
     • Tier three words
     • Technical language
     • Tier two words
   • Wide reading
     • Repeated exposure
     • whole class instruction
   • Intentional word choice
     • Content related reading and vocabulary choices increase comprehension and knowledge building
   • Vocabulary acquisition is related to word exposure in the home at a young age

6. Morphology

   • Incorporate strategies into 5 Day plan for vocabulary instruction
   • Strategies
     • Word sums
       • Segmenting and building with morphemes
       • Teaching affix and root word meanings
     • Word detective
       • Analogy, predicting, and contextual meaning
     • Matrices
     • Reading expository texts
       • Third tier words
       • Academic word list

7. Writing

   • Self-regulated strategy development (SRSD)
     • 6 stages, each one is an evidence-based strategy
   • Evidence-based strategies
     • Write to comprehend and learng
     • Create a pleasant and motivating environment
     • Facilitate writing during composition
       • Writer's workshop
     • Teach critical skills, processes and knowledge
       • 6 + 1 Traits for writing
       • Word choice, conventions, grammar
     • Use 21rst Century writing tools
       • Assistive technologies
       • Supports students with learning disabilities

8. Reading Comprehension

   • Content area reading comprehension
     • Interdisciplinary teaching
       • Interdisciplinary learning tasks
       • Increase in academic rigour and "real-world" learning experiences
     • Co-teaching
       • Impactful approach to professional learning
     • Improves knowledge building
       • Access to expository texts
     • Thematic teaching
       • Repeated exposure to specific vocabulary and content ideas
     • Improves research and investigation skills
   • Strategies
     • Gradual release of responsibility
     • Higher order questions and responses
     • Text structure activites
       • Graphic organizers
       • Predictions and inferences
       • Connecting to prior knowledge
       • Thematic analysis
     • Practice questioning
     • Reciprocal teaching
       • Pre-teaching around protocols, academic language, and structure of the lesson required
       • Teacher modeling required
   • Incorporate vocabulary, phonological awareness, morphology, and fluency into reading program