Teaching Literacy in the 21 st. Century Session 7 Ian Hauser.

Teaching Literacy in the 21st. Century Session 7

Ian Hauser

• What is working?

• How do you know it is working? (What assessment have you done?)

Assessment-driven Instruction

1. What I have learned about my students

2. How I learned this

3. How will this inform my teaching

4. What am I going to do next

Vocabulary, Fluency & Decoding

A Way With Words

1. Divide into 3 groups.2. Group 1 – read pages i, ii, iii, iv, v, up to the

beginning of ‘3’ (half way on page v)Group 2 – read pages i, v (from ‘3 Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies’), vi, vii to the beginning of ‘4’.Group 3 – read pages i, vii (From ‘4 Using Word Parts to arrive …..’), viii, ix and x

3. Report back to large group4. Discuss: What implications does this have for

teaching Spelling and Vocabulary in my class?

Teaching Word Work

1. “Bulk” Reading

2. Targeted Teaching of Individual Words

3. Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies

4. Developing a Spelling Conscience

Teaching Word Work

1) Bulk Reading

“Children learn to read by reading”Frank Smith

Independent Reading is the most powerful tool we have to improve student performance across the board.

Teaching Word Work

2) Targeted Teaching of Individual

Words• Selection of Vocabulary To Teach

– Find out what the students know

– Find out what the students don’t know

• Different types of words (and the challenges they present to the students) require different teaching approaches.

Teaching Word Work

Targeted Teaching of Individual

Words

• Word Sorts is a remarkably successful strategy– Closed Sorts

– Open Sorts

Teaching Word Work

3) Targeted Teaching of Word-Learning Strategies

– Use Context to infer word meanings• Think Aloud

• Displaying prompts

– Use Word Parts to arrive at word meanings• Prefixes, Suffixes, Root Words

• Latin and Greek Roots

– Use the Dictionary to learn to verify word meanings

Teaching Word Work

4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play

• Jack and the Twoderful Beans

Jack and the Twoderful Beans

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Teaching Word Work

4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play

• Jack and the Twoderful Beans

• Clichés and Puns

A Sign of the TimesLook at these examples of puns andclichés used in advertising…….

• On a diaper service van: Rock a Dry Baby

• On a peanut stand:If our peanuts were any fresher, they’d be insulting

• In a Butcher Shop:Never a bum steer

Try completing these signs for ………..• A Planetarium:

Cast of Thousands – Every one _ ____• A Garden Shop:

Lighten up your garden, plant _____

Try some of your own

Teaching Word Work

4) Developing a Spelling Conscience– Proofreading– Word Play

• Jack and the Twoderful Beans

• Clichés and Puns

• Crazy Collectives

• Word Search

• What’s the Word?

Teaching Word Work

Word Walls• Teaching Vocabulary through Immersion• Word Walls aren’t only for Literacy – Math or

Science Word Walls work too!• Grouping important

– Alphabetical– Thematic

Teaching Word Work

Word Walls

A hard word to spell is one you don’t see very often

• Let’s have some fun with learning vocabulary (why not?)

Homework!!!!!• Select a text that interests you

• Prepare a short (a few minutes) presentation for the next session outlining your learnings.