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• RDG 415 Entire Course
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• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 1
• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 2
• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 3
• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4

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• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 1
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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 2
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• What strategies may we employ as teachers in
  order to produce students that not only can read,
  but do read?

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• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 3
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• Do you believe that all teachers are reading
  teachers? Defend your answer.

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• RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4
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• What are the major issues that many students face
  in the reading to learn stage? Defend your answer

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• RDG 415 Week 2 Assignment Informal Reading
  Assessments Questions
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• 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.

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• RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 1
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• 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 2
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• 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.

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• RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 3
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• What are some strategies that you will utilize to
  ensure that assessment is continuous in your
  classroom?

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• RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 4
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• How do you think collaboration among colleagues
  in analyzing assessment results may benefit
  classroom assessment and instruction?

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• RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 5
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• 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 Assignment Scenario Powerpoint
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• 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.

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• RDG 415 Week 3 Assignment The Reading Assessment
  Research Graphic Organizer
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• Research reading assessments as recommended by
  the National Reading Panel, Reading First, No
  Child Left Behind, or the Reading Excellence Act.

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• RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 1
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• What are the pros and cons of standardized
  assessments?

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• RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 2
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• 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?

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• RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 3
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• 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,

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• RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 4
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• 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?

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• RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 1
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• 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?

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• RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 2
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• 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.

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• RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 3
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• What study skill, from the website below, do you
  think is the most important? Why?

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• RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 4
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• 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 4 Individual Assignment The
  Instructional Activity Paper
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• 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.

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• RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 1
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• How will you design instruction to embrace
  several different learning styles in a classroom
  situation?

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• RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 2
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• 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 DQ 3
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• 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?

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• RDG 415 Week 5 Final Diagnostic and Instruction
  Recommendations Report
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• Recommendations Report Instructions, and Sample
  Final Diagnostic and Instructional
  Recommendations Report
• Participate in a teaching situation with one
  reading client located from possibly one of the
  following

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