Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading

1. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading By Sarah L. Lopez

2. Principle 1: Effective Teachers Understand How Children Learn Teacher-Centered Student-Centered • Behaviorism • Constructivism • Interactive • Sociolinguistics • Reader Response • Critical Literacy

3. Principle 1: Effective Teachers Understand How Children Learn CRITICAL LITERACY

4. Principle 2: Effective Teachers Support Children’s Use of the Four Cueing Systems

5. Principle 3: Effective teachers create a community of learners Classrooms are social settings in which students read, discuss, and write about literature.

6. Principle 4: Effective teachers adopt balanced approach to literacy instruction 3 Principles of Balanced Literacy Approach Characteristics of Balanced Program • Develop students’ skills knowledge • Instructional approaches sometimes viewed as opposites • Variety of reading materials • Involve both reading and writing • Skills and strategies taught directly and inderectly • Learning word recognition and identification, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension • Express meaningful ideas • Goal: Develop lifelong readers and writers

7. Principle 5: effective teachers scaffold children’s reading and writing experiences Modeling/ Shared Reading and Writing Interactive/Guided Reading and Writing • Read fluently with expression and talk about strategies used while reading. • Teach procedure for new reading or writing activity. • Choral reading, readers theatre • Guided literacy activities • Independent Reading and writing

8. Principle 6: effective teachers organize literacy instruction in four ways

9. Principle 7: effective teachers connect instruction and assessment Effective teachers identify their goals and plan their instruction at the same time as they develop their assessment plan • Determine students’ background knowledge • Identify reading levels • Monitor learning • Identify strengths and weaknesses • Analyze spelling development • Document learning • Showcase students’ best work • Assign grades

10. Principle 8: Effective teachers become partners with parents Providing Literacy Information to parents “Parents are the most powerful influence on children’s literacy development.”

11. Principle 8: Effective teachers become partners with parents Parent volunteers

12. Principle 8: Effective teachers become partners with parents Supporting literacy at home • Support groups for parents • Parents develop their own reading and writing competencies • Planned interactions between parents and children • Programs that support parents as children’s first teachers • Educate parents on the importance of literacy at home “Parents are children’s first and best teachers.”