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.
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).
5. Given what you have learned in class, what do you think is the most efficient way to measure prosody?
Woody Trathen
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).
Optional Blog Post to DRTA Research Article
DRTA Research article (Stahl, 2008) (Download and read the DRTA article, powerpoint, and use study guide to help you read the article.)
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
Plan a DRTA lesson for one of the chapters in Frog and Toad. You will type this lesson, following the example given in class, post it on your blog, and bring it to class to conduct a DRTA lesson. After conducting the lesson, you may revise and edit your DRTA lesson posted on your blog.
Woody Trathen
Read Chapter 5 (Curt–pgs. 170-187) from Howard Street Tutoring Manual by Morris.
Study Guide for Chapter 5, Curt (Use study guide to post response on your blog.)
Post completed study guide on your blog.
Woody Trathen
Please read Chapter 1 from Words Their Way (download from our course Web page),
pages 8-24. Look at the PowerPoint summary of this chapter.
Take notes about the characteristics of the different stages of spelling development. Then on your blog briefly summarize the key characteristics of each spelling stage:
Emergent (Preliterate)
Letter Name-Alphabetic (Early Letter Name and Letter Name)
Within Word Pattern (Within Word)
Syllables & Affixes (Syllable Juncture)
Woody Trathen
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
Download the chapter by Stahl (3003):
What Do We Expect Storybook Reading to Do? How Storybook Reading Impacts Word Recognition.
Download the study guide for the Stahl article and use it to post a response on your blog. Answer all 8 questions in your post.
You can do this by copying and pasting from the MS Word document to your blog post. Or you can upload the MS Word file, if you want to try that technique.
Email me if you have questions.
Woody Trathen
Complete the Text Talk Lesson for the book you selected and post it to your blog. Create a page for these lessons.
Woody Trathen
