For the weeks beginning Oct 23 read the chapters from the course module and discuss along with this information present your findings from interviewing your cooperating teacher on techniques used in selecting, using and interpreting fluency assessment tools. Collect assessment artifacts to show and share (sample assessments- formal and/or informal) for oral reading fluency and these to add to your Toolkit.
Develop a presentation and post it to the Wiki (it could be PowerPoint, a Lesson Plan, a Short Unit Plan, etc-be creative your method of presentation is open to you) for one method for supporting students’ vocabulary development which may include research-based approaches for teaching word meaning (direct vocabulary instruction, using context clues to infer word meaning, hierarchical & linear arrays, semantic mapping, etc.), the use of structural analysis (morphology: roots, affixes) to determine word meaning, utilizing tools such as dictionaries and thesauruses to aid in determining the meaning of words, distinguishing the connotative (suggested meaning in context) from the denotative (literal interpretation) meanings of words, idioms, and metaphors. And also present one method to improve oral reading fluency, which may include: choral reading, echo reading, partner reading, independent reading, reader’s theater, Neurological Impress Method (NIM), listening to books on tape, and radio reading.
Below is the work for Learning Topic #5.
Learning Topic 5:
For the weeks beginning Oct 23 read the chapters from the course module and discuss along with this information present your findings from interviewing your cooperating teacher on techniques used in selecting, using and interpreting fluency assessment tools. Collect assessment artifacts to show and share (sample assessments- formal and/or informal) for oral reading fluency and these to add to your Toolkit.
Develop a presentation and post it to the Wiki (it could be PowerPoint, a Lesson Plan, a Short Unit Plan, etc-be creative your method of presentation is open to you) for one method for supporting students’ vocabulary development which may include research-based approaches for teaching word meaning (direct vocabulary instruction, using context clues to infer word meaning, hierarchical & linear arrays, semantic mapping, etc.), the use of structural analysis (morphology: roots, affixes) to determine word meaning, utilizing tools such as dictionaries and thesauruses to aid in determining the meaning of words, distinguishing the connotative (suggested meaning in context) from the denotative (literal interpretation) meanings of words, idioms, and metaphors. And also present one method to improve oral reading fluency, which may include: choral reading, echo reading, partner reading, independent reading, reader’s theater, Neurological Impress Method (NIM), listening to books on tape, and radio reading.
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Nancy,