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RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)
RDG 415 Entire Course (UOP)
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Week 1 DQ 3 RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4 RDG 415 Week 2 DQ
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How might environmental, cultural, and
socioeconomic factors affect a student's reading
success? Provide specific examples from our
readings or other resources
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RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP)
What strategies may we employ as teachers in
order to produce students that not only can read,
but do read?
Do you believe that all teachers are reading
teachers? Defend your answer
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RDG 415 Week 2 Assignment Informal Reading
Assessments Questions (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP)
    What are the major issues that many students
face in the reading to learn stage? Defend your
answer
  What are the components of an Informal Reading
Inventory (IRI)?What reading skill does an oral
retelling check?Look at the Concepts About Print
Checklist. Explain the importance of students
having some of these skills before they enter
kindergarten. How might lower socioeconomic
students be at a disadvantage in knowing these
skills.What are metacomprehension
strategies?What is a miscue analysis?What is
the difference between a summative evaluation and
a formative evaluation?
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RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)
Which of the informal assessments that Miller and
or Gillet propose do you think may provide the
most accurate picture of students' reading
abilities? Please give specific examples. Which
informal assessments (like the ones you will be
using with your client) would you want to use to
help diagnose your client's reading difficulties?
Take a look at the tests that are required for
your Final report. Which one(s) of these and
others that the authors describe would be
valuable to you and why?  
What are some of the challenges in administering
an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) found in
Miller's textbook, The Reading Teacher's Survival
Kit?
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RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP)
    What are some strategies that you will
utilize to ensure that assessment is continuous
in your classroom?
    How do you think collaboration among
colleagues in analyzing assessment results may
benefit classroom assessment and instruction?
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RDG 415 Week 3 Assignment Scenario Powerpoint
(UOP)
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 5 (UOP)
Read the Scenario for your team.Share and
Discuss ideas with your teammates about what area
of difficulty your student is experiencing and
about how you would remediate this students
reading difficulties.Each team member chooses an
appropriate instructional activity that would
remediate your struggling students problem.
Describe the activity (1 paragraph), give a
rationale (1 paragraph). This will tell me you
know how to find an appropriate activity for your
student and why your activity is appropriate.
Include your resource.
  How will you use data to group students for
instruction, select interventions, manage your
data, and monitor progress of students?  
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RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 3 Assignment The Reading Assessment
Research Graphic Organizer (UOP)
      What are the pros and cons of standardized
assessments?
Research reading assessments as recommended by
the National Reading Panel, Reading First, No
Child Left Behind, or the Reading Excellence
Act.Select, as individuals, one assessment to
research. Consider, but you are not limited to
the following examples Dynamic Indicators of
Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Texas
Primary Reading Inventory Early Reading
Diagnostic Assessment Woodcock Mini Battery of
Achievement Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests
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RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)
In Chapter 3 of Gillet's book, reading is
compared to swimming. Please discuss Do you
agree with this comparison? Why or why not? Which
two or three of the informal assessments that
Carly gave would you choose? Why?
  When the state-required reading achievements
are given in your school, a teacher you know
reads difficult items aloud to some of her lowest
readers. She defends her actions by saying, Its
wrong to make them struggle with material
everyone knows they cant read. Argue for or
against her actions
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RDG 415 Week 4 Assignment The Instructional
Activity Paper (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP)
  You are a member of a committee in your
district. What criteria would you use to select a
formal assessment to be used district wide?
Choose four instructional activities from The
Reading Teachers Survival Kit that would be
appropriate for your client.Write a 100- to
150-word rationale for each of the chosen
activities.Implement one of the activities with
your client.Write a 350-word reflection
describing the implementation of the activity and
the results.Note. You may want to consider
posting this assignment or resources to your
personal Presentation Portfolio or Resource Folio
in TaskStream. This is not required.
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RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP)
  We all need some skills both in reading by
sight words and by phonics. But if you had to
choose teaching one more than the other, which
would you choose and why?
  Given all the strategies that have been
discussed, how will this influence your
instructional approach to teaching reading? The
title of this course implies that you learn about
the diagnosis and remediation of reading
difficulties. Do you feel that both of these were
covered adequately, keeping in mind we have a
grand 5 weeks to work together? What area needs
more emphasis, resources, or clarification?
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RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP)
  What study skill, from the website below, do
you think is the most important? Why?
  What has been the most challenging part of
working with your client for the case
study/project? How might you approach the
challenge next time?
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RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP)
How will you design instruction to embrace
several different learning styles in a classroom
situation?
  How would you prepare for and conduct a
parentteacher conference regarding a student who
is having reading difficulties?  
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RDG 415 Week 5 Final Diagnostic and Instruction
Recommendations Report (UOP)
RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 3 (UOP
  What do you consider the most important issues
regarding diagnosis and remediation of reading
difficulties? How have your views changed since
the start of this course?
Recommendations Report Instructions, and Sample
Final Diagnostic and Instructional
Recommendations ReportParticipate in a teaching
situation with one reading client located from
possibly one of the following Neighborhood
children Friends Church acquaintances Local
schools Boys and girls clubs Relatives
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