Module Information
Modules 1-5 included lessons about collaborative teamwork, understanding and assessing beginning literacy development, using a variety of literacy approaches, and guided reading. Course 3 will focus on comprehension and community involvement. In Module 6, you will learn instructional methods proven to be effective with culturally diverse learners. The instructional methods and techniques presented here will provide additional information about how to teach reading in an effective manner.
In Module 6, you will:
- Reflect on your learning, observations, questions, and personal connections.
- Participate productively in the Collaboration Group process.
- Understand what literature discussion groups are and how to plan and facilitate them.
- Understand the process of asking effective questions and providing appropriate feedback.
- Understand how to include fluency development within the literacy framework.
- Know the important comprehension strategies and how to include them in the literacy framework.
- Understand the importance of vocabulary development and how to teach it.
- Provide peer-coaching using the Profile of Reading Instructional Practices, K-3 instrument.
- Evaluate your own growth and the effectiveness of the module.
Key Elements of Reading Instruction
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Module Overview and Due Dates
Note: Listed below are the individual assignments that will need to be emailed to the instructor. See lesson directions for reading assignments and other group work due dates.
Lesson 6.1: Literature Discussion Groups
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Lesson 6.2: Effective Questioning and Effective Feedback
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Reading Lesson with Questions at the Literal, Interpretive, and Applied Level due _____
Lesson 6.3: Fluency Development
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Important Points Chart due _____
Fluency Lesson Description due _____
Lesson 6.4: Comprehension Strategies
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Comprehension Strategies: A Lesson Sequence due _____
Comprehension Strategy Debriefing Form due _____
Lesson 6.5: Vocabulary Development
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Vocabulary Lesson Summary due _____
Lesson 6.6: Profile of Reading Instructional Practices
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Lesson 6.7: Evaluation and Literacy Talk
Collaboration Group meeting _____
Module 6 evaluation due _____
Textbooks for This Module
Burns, M. S., Griffin, P., & Snow, C. (Eds). (1999). Starting out right: A guide to promoting children’s reading success. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. ISBN 0-309-06410-4
Hanson, S. (2003, February). Becoming better readers: Fluency work makes a difference. Pacific Educator, 2(1), 10-11.
Partnership for Reading. (2001). Put reading first: The research building blocks for teaching children to read, K-3. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
Taberski, S. (2000). On solid ground: Strategies for teaching reading K-3. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
University of the South Pacific. (1989). Literacy education certificate course IV (Rev. ed.). Suva, Fiji: University Extension, Author.
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