Comprehensive Literacy: Teaching To Independence

1. Comprehensive Literacy:Teaching To Independence Amy Pregulman August 2013

2. 5 Components of Literacy • Phonemic awareness: language is broken up into separate units of sound that when blended together create words K-A-T • Phonics: a set of rules that the English language follows that makes sounds and letters in the alphabet consistent (spelling)

3. Fluency and Vocabulary • Fluency: grouping words in a meaningful way within a sentence to aid in the readers’ overall comprehension of the text. • Vocabulary: Words we need to know in order to communicate with others. Vocabulary is very important in word recognition.

4. Comprehension • constructing meaning from text based on what the reader already knows and is thinking • Comprehension is the final goal of reading instruction

5. “There are, in the end, only two ways human beings learn, by observing others (directly or vicariously) and by trying it out for themselves. Novices learn from experts and from experience. That’s all there is to it. Everything else is in the details.” -Deborah Meier

6. Gradual Release of Responsibility Teacher Modeled Shared Writing/ Reading Small Groups: Guided Reading/Writing Pair Share: thinking together Student Independence

11. Writing

12. Working Towards Independence

13. Gradual Release of Responsibility Teacher Modeled Shared Writing/ Reading Small Groups: Guided Reading/Writing Pair Share: thinking together Student Independence

14. Questions?