2. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading By: Starla Gibson starla.smith@smail.astate.edu

3. Becoming an Effective Teacher of Reading Becoming an Effective Teacher Video Presentation

4. Understand How Students Learn  Behaviorism  Orientation  Teacher Centered  Application  Basil Readers  Mini Lessons  Repeated Readings  Worksheets  Constructivism  Orientation  Student Centered  Application  Literature Focus Units  K-W-L Charts  Learning Logs  Thematic Units  Word Sorts

5. Understand How Students Learn Continued…  Sociolinguistics  Application  Literature Circles  Shared Reading  Questioning the Author  Reading and Writing Workshop  Author’s Chair  Information Processing  Application  Guided Reading  Graphic Organizers  Grand Conversation  Interactive Writing  Reading Logs

6. Effective Teachers Support Students’ Use of the Cueing System  Phonological System  Phoneme  Grapheme  Phonological Awareness  Phonemic Awareness  Phonics  Syntactic System  Syntax  Morpheme  Free Morpheme  Bound Morpheme  Semantic System  Semantics  Synonyms  Antonyms  Homonyms  Pragmatic system  Function  Standard English  Nonstandard English

7. Effective Teachers Create a Community of Learners Characteristics of a Classroom Community  Safety  Respect  High Expectations  Risk Taking  Collaboration  Choice  Responsibility  Family and community Involvement

8. Effective Teachers Create a Community of Learners Continued… How to Create the Classroom Culture  Explain Classroom Routine  Demonstrate Literacy Procedures  Grand Conversation  Set Expectations

9. Effective Teachers Adapt a Balanced Approach to Instruction  Reading  Phonemic Awareness and Phonics  Literacy Strategies and Skills  Vocabulary  Comprehension  Literature  Content-Area Study  Oral Language  Writing  Spelling

10. Effective Teachers Scaffold Students’ Reading and Writing Reading  Modeled  Read Aloud  Shared  Read Together  Interactive  Instructional Level  Guided  Mini Lessons  Independent  Self Read Writing  Modeled  Demonstrate  Shared  Create Together; Teacher Writes  Interactive  Create Together; All Write  Guided  Mini Lessons  Independent  Students Write Alone

11. Effective Teachers Organize for Literacy Instruction  Basal Reading Programs  Literature Focus Units  Literature Circles  Reading and Writing Workshops  Nurturing English Learners

12. Effective Teachers Differentiate Instruction  Differentiating the Content  Ways:  Choice of Materials  Students Development Levels  Use Assessment Tools  Differentiating the Process  Ways:  How you Instruct  Scaffold  Challenge Advanced Students  Monitor  Differentiating the Products  Ways:  Individual/Partner/Group Projects  Engaging Projects  Assessments

13. Effective Teachers Link Instruction and Assessment  Determine Reading Levels  Monitoring  Diagnosing Progress  Evaluating  Documenting

14. References Literacy for the 21 st Century (6 th Ed) By Gail E. Tompkins Pearson Education Inc.