Post a reflection for each week you intern for a total of 5 reflections. Include in your reflections the following:
What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?
What have you taught in your internship?
Comment on any interesting things that you have noticed about your school, the teachers, the students, or the curriculum.
Post any questions that you have about teaching/learning.
Woody Trathen & Omer Ari
Part 3 of Text Talk Lesson
You will NOT be doing the Text Talk lesson in class, but we encourage you to do it during your internship.
Part 3: Find text talk book for your next text talk lesson. You will be planning a text talk lesson that you will do in class–choose a picture book for this lesson and bring title or book to class. See the list of books at the back of the text talk lesson in the packet–you may select from these titles or another if you get my approval. Also see the examples of the lessons on the class Web site–do NOT select books that already have lessons on the Web site. You may select a book with a diversity theme and use this book for your assignment in CI 3000.
Woody Trathen & Omer Ari
Post your responses to the following questions for this assignment. Your responses are due November 2nd.
1. What are the three dimensions of fluency? How can you assess each dimension?
2. Rasinski refers to fluency as a “bridge” between decoding and comprehension. What does he mean by the “bridge” metaphor?
3. What instructional methods does Rasinski suggest for students with difficulties in automatic and prosodic reading?
4. Multidimensional Fluency Scale (MFS) is used to measure prosodic quality of oral reading. List components of the MFS and describe what each refers to (p. 49).
What are the three dimensions of fluency? How can you assess each dimension?
Rasinski refers to fluency as a “bridge” between decoding and comprehension. What does he mean by the “bridge” metaphor?
What instructional methods does Rasinski suggest for students with difficulties in automatic and prosodic reading?
Multidimensional Fluency Scale (MFS) is used to measure prosodic quality of oral reading. List components of the MFS and describe what each refers to (p. 49).
Complete the Text Talk Lesson for the book you selected and post it to your blog.
Woody Trathen and Omer Ari
You will be asked to plan a DRTA lesson for one of the chapters in Frog and Toad. You will type this lesson, following the example given in class, and bring it to the next class to conduct a DRTA lesson. After conducting the lesson, you may revise and edit your DRTA lesson and post it to your blog.
Post the finished lesson to your blog.
Woody Trathen and Omer Ari
Read Chapter 5 (Curt–pgs. 170-187) from Howard Street Tutoring Manual by Morris (in your course packet).
Study Guide for Chapter 5, Curt (Use study guide to post response on your blog.)
Post responses to study guide on your blog.
Woody Trathen and Omer Ari
DRTA Assignment You will experience a DRTA lesson and plan one for Frog and Toad.
DRTA Research article (Stahl, 2008) (Download and read the DRTA article and use study guide.)
Study Guide for Stahl (2008) (Download the study guide, answer the questions and save the file, then copy and paste the questions and answers into a post on your blog.)
Post the responses to the study guide on your blog.
Woody Trathen and Omer Ari
Word Study Research Article: Spellings of Words: A Neglected Facilitator of Vocabulary Learning by Ehri (2007) (Download and read article; use study guide to help you focus on what is most important.)
Study Guide for Ehri Article (Use study guide to write response on your blog.)
Copy and Paste the responses to the study guide in your blog. Consult the daily lessons on the course Web site for due dates.
Woody Trathen and Omer Ari
Text Talk Lesson: Part 2 (see instructions)
You will plan a Text Talk lesson for the book Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Marshall (1998). Pattern your lesson after the model and the criteria contained in the Text Talk article and the sample lesson plan in your packet. Make sure you have a summary/extension question at the end. Post this lesson on your blog. Your instructor will grade your lesson, and give you feedback. You may redo the lesson and turn it in again if you are not satisfied with your grade.
Your lesson should contain:
- Title, author(s), illustrator(s), date, ISBN #
- A short summary of the story
- Page #s where you will stop with questions that you will ask or statements that you will make
- Remember to focus on the text
- ask thoughtful questions
- include appropriate vocabulary questions
- not too many questions
- not all stops need to have questions–statements are allowed
- A summary/extension question at the end
Text Talk Lesson: Part 3
For part 3 of the Text Talk assignment, you will find a picture book suitable for a read aloud. You will be planning a text talk lesson that you will perform (Part 4) in class–choose a picture book for this lesson and bring title or book to class. See the list of books at the back of the text talk lesson in the packet–you may select from these titles or another if you get my approval. Also see the examples of the lessons on the class Web site–do NOT select books that already have lessons on the Web site. You may select a book with a diversity theme and use this book for your assignment in CI 3000.
You need to bring title of book to class the next class meeting.
Woody Trathen & Omer Ari
For Chapter 1 and 2 and 3 of Every Child Reading (Morris and Slavin), we would like you to post on your blog the answers to the study guide questions for chapter 2 and 3. You can do this by copying and pasting from the MS Word document (study guide) to your blog post. Or you can upload the MS Word file, if you want to try that technique.
Email us if you have questions.
Woody Trathen & Omer Ari
