Elementary Reading and Literacy

Self Study Question: Why is visualizing important in comprehension?
1. Zone of Proximal development to best learn from assistance of the teacher.
2. By visualizing students can connect the text to prior knowledge and images already stored in memory and can deepen comprehension of text.
Self Study Question: How can I make sure students are truly visualizing the text they are reading?
1. Text complexity needs to be at an instructional or independent level for students so that students may focus on comprehension strategies.
2. Proper modeling is key here. If a teacher can effectively and explicitly model visualization of text for students then students will have the tools needed to visualize text on their own.Collaboration and communication between teacher and students about what the students is visualizing can be a great assessment for measuring visualizing.
Self Study Question: How can I use the diverse interests in my classroom to encourage reading?
1. Students need early intervention and introduction into oral language because it directly affects school life later on. by allowing students to suggest books they have read for read-alouds, I can encourage independent reading and engage different students' interests.
2. Connexting home and school can be an important way to engage students interests in the class and open up lines of communications.Family interviews can be a great tool here.
Reading strategies progress from read-alouds, to think alouds, to shared reading, to guided reading, and eventually to independent reading.
Scaffolding is key to developing beginning readers text comprehension and fluency. By developing reading strategies students can successfully become life long readers.
Assessment should be accurate and based on appropriate leveled text and grade level.
Vocabulary comprehension is vital to developing reading skills and fluency. Vocabulary words can be common, such as tier one, or not common but useful, meaning tier two words. Vocabulary words that are uncommon in conversational language and domain specific classify as tier three words. Students need a vast knowledge of tier one and two words
To help students ELL students learn vocabulary general strategies of word learning and build from there. By using content specific texts, vocabulary can be introduced and reiterated

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