Reading


 * Literacy**

Note: The **majorit**y of the materials presented in this packet are taken from on-line or resources provided by other educators. Please see references for additional information.

 * What is Literacy?**

¨ In broad terms, literacy is the ability to make and communicate meaning from and by the use of a variety of socially contextual symbols. ¨ A literate person can mediate their world by deliberately and flexibly orchestrating meaning from one linguistic knowledge base and applying or connecting it to another knowledge base. ¡ For example, knowing that letters symbolize sounds, and that those sounds form words to which the reader can attach meaning, is an example of the cognitive orchestration of knowledge, a literate person conducts. ¨ Literacy is "not in isolated bits of knowledge but in students' growing ability to use language and literacy in more and broader activities" (Moll, 1994, p. 202). ¨ The traditional definition of literacy is to be the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak.


 * How is Literacy and Language Connected??**

Language can = Literacy, with Instruction Literacy increases Language Language increase Literacy If you are not teaching language, you are not teaching literacy.

Literacy Te= L   not teaching literacy. Graphic from Literacy for All- Gretchen Hanser

What is Emergent Literacy ?

Early Reading Resources- [|Between the Lions]

Five Big Ideas of Early Reading Instruction
August & Shanahan (editors) (2006) Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children & Youth. NAEYC & IRA (1998) Learning to Read & Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children. Available online []. National Institute for Literacy (2001) Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read: A Parent Guide: Preschool through Grade 3 Available online: [] Armbruster (2001) [|Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read]. Available online: [] Fillmore & Snow (2000) [|What Teachers Need to Know about Language]. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics Vaughan Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts. [|www.TexasReading.org] || faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/resources/**Five**%20**Big**%20**Ideas**.doc
 * ||  || ** What it is ** ||   || ** How it’s taught ** ||
 * ** Phonemic Awareness ** ||  || The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words ||   || * Focus on sound
 * Identify & blend:
 * Onsets (initial consonant or consonant clusters)
 * Rimes (vowel and consonants that follow the onset)
 * Segment, blend and manipulate sounds ||
 * ** Phonics ** ||  || Phonics and word study (decoding strategies) involve the systematic instruction of letter-sound relations to read and spell words accurately and quickly. ||   || * Practice knowledge of letter-sound correspondences
 * Decode and read words
 * Manipulate, categorize, and examine the similarities and differences in words ||
 * **Vocabulary** ||  || How children acquire an understanding of new words and concepts ||   || * Provide key experiences
 * Promote wide reading
 * Lead discussions through questioning ||
 * ** Fluency ** ||  || Reading quickly, accurately, and with expression ||   || * Practice reading words automatically (accurately and quickly with little attention or effort)
 * Increase speed (or rate) of reading while maintaining accuracy
 * Practice reading with expression ||
 * ** Comprehension ** ||  || The process that enables readers to make meaning of text, and to communicate meaning about what was read ||   || * Read text aloud
 * Communicate to others about what they read
 * Promote thinking and extended discourse through questioning and discussions ||
 * **RESOURCES:**
 * National Reading Panel (2000) [|Teaching Children to Read: Report of the National Reading Panel]. Available online: []**

Examples of Reading activity on SAS website:

http://www.pdesas.org/module/content/resources/2011/view.ashx

http://www.pdesas.org/module/content/drc/UnitPlanPrint.aspx?id=4580

Links:
 * [|StarFall]
 * [|Sequencing and Reading Activities]
 * [|Lots of Language Arts tools and books]
 * [|Nea Big Read]
 * [|Story Line]
 * . [|Guys Read]
 * [|Into the Book]- Online interactive books with audio.
 * [|Guysread]-Reading Materials for GUYS!
 * [|Reading Rockets]
 * [|Inkless Stories]- Stories in text with "read to me capabilities" All stories emphasis DOLCH words.
 * [|Help Me Find a Book]
 * [|TarHeel Reader]
 * [|Dystalk]
 * [|Information on the AnyReader]