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Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading. By Sarah L. Lopez. Principle 1: Effective Teachers Understand How Children Learn. Teacher-Centered. Student-Centered. Behaviorism. Constructivism Interactive Sociolinguistics Reader Response Critical Literacy.
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Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading By Sarah L. Lopez
Principle 1: Effective Teachers Understand How Children Learn Teacher-Centered Student-Centered • Behaviorism • Constructivism • Interactive • Sociolinguistics • Reader Response • Critical Literacy
Principle 1: Effective Teachers Understand How Children Learn CRITICAL LITERACY
Principle 2: Effective Teachers Support Children’s Use of the Four Cueing Systems
Principle 3: Effective teachers create a community of learners Classrooms are social settings in which students read, discuss, and write about literature.
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
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
Principle 6: effective teachers organize literacy instruction in four ways
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
Principle 8: Effective teachers become partners with parents Providing Literacy Information to parents “Parents are the most powerful influence on children’s literacy development.”
Principle 8: Effective teachers become partners with parents Parent volunteers
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.”