Willamette Education Service District Title 1 Literacy

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Willamette Education Service District Title 1
Literacy

• February 5, 2009
• Presented by
• Karen Durbin,
• Marisol Jimenez
• Northwest Regional Education Service District

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• What Keeps Struggling Students Back?

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Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Growth Begets More Vocabulary Growth
• Pronunciation
• Teach Vocabulary Across Content
• Can Interfere with Fluency

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• Decoding
• Fluency
• Accuracy
• Rate
• Prosody
• Comprehension

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Fluency

• Reading text accurately, smoothly, quickly and
  with expression
• Reading slowly, focusing on every word interferes
  with comprehension
• Accuracy is not enough (become unglued)
• Reread . . Key is practice
• Grade 4 there is an increase in silent reading

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Increase Fluency

• Accuracy
• Effortless/automatic in recognition
• Rate
• Read with meaning, not faster
• Prosody
• Oral punctuation

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Vocabulary

• Do you know every word?
• Best way to learn new words reading and
  listening (Nagy and Herman, 1987)
• Explicitly teach vocabulary
• Latin and Greek
• Roots
• Word families
• Signal Words
• Teach multiple ways to unlock meaning
• Imagery
• Sketching

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Strategies

• Word Ladder
• Emphasis on Prosody
• Readers Theatre (practice authentic texts)
• Alphabet Intonation
• Phrase Boundaries
• Model Oral Reading
• Singing
• Repeated Reading

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Phrase Boundaries

• Woman without her man is nothing.
• Woman//without her man/ is nothing.
• Woman/without her//man is nothing.
• Tom borrowed my new lawnmower.
• The principal said the teacher is the best in the
  district.

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What Keeps Struggling Students Back? Five KEY
Practices we have learned about teaching reading
to ELs

• Know the English Proficiency levels of your
  ELs to target instruction.

1.
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What Keeps Struggling Students Back? Five KEY
Practices we have learned about teaching reading
to ELs
2. Have a Language Objective for each lesson see
ELP from ODE.
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What Keeps Struggling Students Back? Five KEY
Practices we have learned about teaching reading
to ELs
Practice Read Alouds- for comprehension,
model it, remember PROSODY.
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What Keeps Struggling Students Back? Five KEY
Practices we have learned about teaching reading
to ELs
Build Vocabulary-the size of their vocabulary
banks, predicts their level of reading
comprehension.
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What Keeps Struggling Students Back? Five KEY
Practices we have learned about teaching reading
to ELs
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The SIOP Model, Echevarria, Vogt, and Short (2008)
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Lets DO It!