First Year Teachers
The first year of teaching is a tough job. Everything is new — the students you're responsible for; the school's procedures; your relationship with fellow teachers, administrators, and parents; what you plan to do and teach each day; your classroom management and teaching style; and much more. Not surprisingly, new teachers who don't receive adequate support often become dissatisfied and end up quitting.
Reading Skills for Today's Adults
Marshall Adult EducationHOME | MISSION | SCOPE AND SEQUENCE | STAFF INFORMATION |SITE SCHEDULES | TECHNOLOGYWORKFORCE | BUSINESS CONNECTION | DIRECTORY | GRANTS | RESOURCES | STUDENT LESSONS 25 new Health and Wellness Stories have been posted These new health and wellness stories were funded by the National Head Start Family Literacy Center/Sonoma State University This project was designed to create leveled reading selections that are appropriate for and valued by adult learners. These materials, combined with the research-proven strategies of repeated reading and guided oral reading, aid in building learners' fluency and comprehension skills.
Types of Informal Classroom-Based Assessment
Most of the assessments here should be given one-on-one. It is important that you have a non-distracting, comfortable testing environment for students, and that the rest of the class is engaged in a task or assignment and working quietly. It's even better if you can arrange for another teacher to be present while you are performing assessments. This list of informal assessments is not all-inclusive; there are components of reading that these tools do not assess. This information is also available in chart form. Download chart (304K PDF)*
Ten Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students
As a teacher, I was obsessed with cultivating a love of reading in my students. I love to read, loved it as a kid too. I'm equally compelled to ensure that my own child loves reading -- and he does. I well aware that I'm on a mission -- but I also know it's a worthy one! Here are ten suggestions for how any teacher, teaching any subject can participate in this mission, and how parents and administrators can help. Read.
Learning Phonics - Reading Skills Pyramid - NCLB
Key skills and dependencies Learning to read is an exciting time for children and their families. While thrilled by their children's emerging literacy skills, many parents are surprised to learn that reading is not automatic and that, regardless of family background, children require support in learning to read. Recent advances in research document some methodologies that work in most cases. A language-rich environment forms a solid foundation on which skills including decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension are based. Mastery of decoding comprises understanding print concepts, phonemic awareness and phonics and is usually attained by the end of second grade.
Instructional Resources: Instructional Activities (Search Results) - The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A Framework
The essential cognitive elements of the reading process have been outlined in the cognitive framework of reading. To assist educators in organizing their practice around the cognitive framework, we've created a way to easily search for instructional activities that specifically address skills and knowledge outlined by the cognitive framework of reading. To find out more about the Instructional Activities portion of the Instructional Resources Database, we have provided an overview of the database and a description of the resources from which these activities were selected.
The site has been added because of its comprehension strategies. Amongst this list of strategies teachers will find a concept known as cooperative learning. This particular method puts students in pairs or small groups for clearly defined tasks. Students work together to understand texts and help each other apply comprehension strategies. by cameronbourg Jul 24
This article offers several great strategies to help teach students text comprehension. It also gives links to free printables. by britto Jul 23
A bit more in-depth than the tutoring tips, this gives useful methods to get our students to become fluent readers. I like the strategies because they are not just for the beginning readers but can be used with older students as well (i.e. the graphic organizers). by amayberry1 Jul 2
I like how the strategies are explained with examples. by archie292 Mar 8
An article discussing seven strategies for improving text comprehension. I liked the graphic organizers and the related links. by mcussen Feb 17
Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading comprehension. The seven strategies here appear to have a firm scientific basis for improving text comprehension by mholloway Nov 6
This site provides some great strategies for teaching reading comprehension to students. I particularly enjoyed this article because it is broken down into seven strategies, so I could refer back to it and scroll to the one I want to focus on at the time. I especially like how the article focuses on application and explains to the teacher how to apply these strategies in the classroom. by kham1 Nov 5