Lesson 2.2: Understanding Stages of Reading Behavior
Focus: Understand various stages of reading behavior by looking at a continuum.
Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting
1. Reflection Journal
Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:
- What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
- How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?
Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.
2. Readings
NOTE: To print the linked documents, do the following:
- Put your mouse on the document and right click. You will see a window that asks you where you want to download the document.
- Determine where you want to save the document.
- After saving the document, open and print it in MS Word.
- Text: On Solid Ground pp. 9-32
- Text: Literacy Education Certificate Course IV pp. 97-113
- The Continuum of Reading Behaviors
3. Observation
Select two children between the ages of 4 and 7. Observe each child for at least 20 minutes. Take notes on any literacy behaviors that you observe. Use the continuum and these guiding questions to assist you during your observations and note-taking:
- What literacy behaviors did you notice?
- Were there any patterns of behaviors?
- Summarize your observations and be prepared to discuss them at the Collaboration Group meeting.
During the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Share your reflection journal entries.
- Share your child observation summaries.
- The recorder takes notes.
- Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.
After the Collaboration Group Meeting
- Email your child observation summaries to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_observation_summaries.
- The recorder emails the notes to the instructor.
- The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.
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