Self Study Project 2016

Self Study Project 2016

1. How do I keep children engaged in class?

   • Know the children's interests
     • think about the stories that they are going to enjoy
     • Hands on activities they will enjoy
   • Interactive Read Aloud
     • text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world connections
     • stopping point to involve students
     • instructional level texts
       • Teacher models fluent reading
     • talk partners
       • Have students talk to a partner of what is going to happen in the story
   • Connect what you are teaching to real life
     • choose culturally relevant materials
       • provide materials for ELL's
     • use specific everyday examples
       • Link children's background knowledge
     • Link routines to learning

2. How do I help ELL's with reading?

   • choose appropriate books
   • Improve reading speed
     • build background knowledge
     • Introduce new words
     • reread familiar books
     • Echo reading
       • The teacher reads a sentence with expression and then the student repeats it
   • build knowledge
     • Picture walk the book
   • Use manipulative
     • counters
     • sound boxes
     • magnetic letters

3. How do I scaffold children in reading?

   • Prompt and reinforce students
     • Teach: You can think about the most important information in the story and tell about it in just a few sentences
       • Prompt
         • "Somebody______(characters) wanted______(problem) but____(events), so______(conclusion."
         • "What is something that happened in the story that you think is the most important?"
         • "How would you describe this character (plot, setting)?"
   • Ask open-ended questions
     • "Why did things happen that way?
     • "What is the author trying to do here?
     • "Why is this somewhat confusing?
   • Graphic organizers
     • Beginning, Middle, End
     • Main Idea & 3 Key Details
     • Cause and Effect
   • Comprehension Strategies
     • Visualizing
       • Create a mental picture of the story in their mind
     • Drawing Inferences
       • Evidence from the text
     • Making Connections
       • text-to-self
       • text-to-text
       • text-to-world

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