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Multiple factors contribute to the diverse nature of today’s classrooms: Linguistic Diversity: the language in which the student feels most comfortable communicating is not the language of instruction in the school. Cultural Diversity: The student’s home, family, socioeconomic group, or culture differs from the predominant (often middle-class) culture of the school. Cognitive and academic Diversity:Continue reading “Virginia Wilson ENGED 370 Chapter 3 -Meeting the Literacy needs of Diverse Learners”

Running Records are one part of a 3 part process to place students in instructionally appropriate level texts. It also lets you know if you need to move a student up a level or not. They are most often used at the earlier stages of reading to monitor reading behavior and progress. Part 1 –Continue reading “ENG ED 370 – Virginia Wilson Ch.2 Approaches to Reading Instruction and Running Records”

Belief System: What teachers believe about reading and learning to read is closely related to what they know about literacy learning and the teaching of literacy. Literacy learning can be done through: Personal Experiences – past and present as readers and writers Practical Experiences and knowledge of their craft as they work with and learnContinue reading “ENGED 370 – Virginia Wilson Chapter 1 – Knowledge and Beliefs about Reading”

Trade books are rich in narrative and informational content, and can provide a valuable compliment to most textbooks. They can be nonfiction books, picture books, fiction books and many other types of books. They are generally used in conjunction with textbooks to assist students with connecting their own lives and background knowledge to the thematicContinue reading “EngEd 275- Virginia Wilson Ch. 12 Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum”

From the Video – Differentiation using cut out strips with words, meets standard: can cut out a strip of paper and identify beginning sounds of words on strip. Above: identify ending/middle sounds or write out words. Below: give a cut out of letters and let students match letters to the beginning sounds. The goal isContinue reading “Virginia Wilson- EngEd 275 Chapter 11 – Differentiating for success”

Strategies for Beginning Literature Circles Video : Day 1 – Teaching and Modeling, Introduce book, Introduce Roles/Jobs, Explanations of everything, table leader is in charge of giving out jobs. Days 2-3 – Review group roles, Independent student reading and work, teacher small group work with group roles, activity sheets vary with each student and theirContinue reading “EngEd 275 – Virginia Wilson Chapter 10 – Organizing for Instruction”

Video Summaries: Myths, Fables, & Folktales Myth: a short story that explains why something is the way it is. Generally has Gods/Goddesses, Teaches a lesson, has magic, comes from different cultures. Fable: a short story used to teach a moral or lesson, often with animals as the main characters. Folktale: short stories that have beenContinue reading “Virginia Wilson EngEd 275 – Chapter 9: Promoting Comprehension: Text Factors”

Comprehension is a creative, multifaceted thinking process in which students engage with text. It is the goal of reading. Comprehension involves different levels of thinking – The most basic is Literal comprehension in which readers pick out main ideas, sequence details, notice similarities and differences, and identify explicitly stated reasons. Inferential Comprehension is when readersContinue reading “Virginia Wilson EngEd 275 – Chapter 8 – Promoting Comprehension: Reader Factors”

Classroom Application for this chapter: We are learning to find ways to expand our students vocabulary and develop their interest in learning words. I would use word walls/posters to go hand in hand with the different books we read (Kindergarten level). We could categorize them under different titles such as animals, common words, weather, etc.Continue reading “Virginia Wilson EngED 275 Chapter 7 – Expanding Academic Vocabulary”

Different Literary Centers in a classroom: Library Center, Listening Center, Retelling Center, Science Center, Word Sort Center, Word Wall Center, Word Work Center, Writing Center. (p.184) Language Experience Approach: is based on children’s language and experiences. teachers do shared writing; children dictate words and sentences about their experiences, and the teacher writes down what theContinue reading “Virginia Wilson, EngEd 275, Ch.6 Developing Fluent Readers and Writers”