Reading Motivation

By Dec. 5, please respond to the following questions: What are key issues or strategies as you try to motivate student reading? What questions do you have about reading motivation (i.e., self-selected reading)?

Writing

Post your responses to the following questions by Nov. 28: What did you learn from the reading about teaching writing that matters most to you? Why? What is one question you have about teaching students with disabilities how to write?

Guided Reading

By Nov. 21, please respond to these question: what are the critical components of a successful guided reading lesson? After you respond to that question, post one of your own about guided reading.

Reading Fluency

By Nov. 7, post one thing you understand better about helping students read more fluently. Post one question you have about reading fluency instruction or assessment.

Letters, Sounds, and Words

By Oct. 24, post one thing you understand better about teaching letters, sounds, or words based on the reading. Post one question you have about such teaching.

Beginning reading (due by Oct. 10)

After you do the readings on beginning reading instruction this week (Coyne et al, 2006 and Strickand, 1990), post (1) one strategy you find particularly useful and (2) one question you have about beginning reading, given the age and population you hope to teach some day.

ERSI

By Oct. 3, please post on the following: (a) How is the ERSI different than the Bridge? (b) What question(s) do you have about administering or interpreting either or both assessments?

Bridge Assessment

By Sept. 26, please post (1) what seems to be most important to understand about administering the Bridge Assessment, and (2) one question you have about the assessment.

Emergent Literacy

Pick 2-3 of the following questions and reflect on them in the Comments: 1) How would you define emergent literacy in plain English? 2) Why does it matter particularly in special education? 3) What might it look like in classrooms? 4) What are some key principles? 5) How does it differ from reading readiness? Your comments are due no later than Sept. 5.

Welcome and Introductions

Welcome to the Fall 2010 RE 3900 blog on literacy instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. Our focus throughout the semester will be on how to teach reading and writing to all of the students you (will) serve in your future and current classrooms. To get started, and to make sure you have successfully found this blog, please reply to this post no later than Sept. 5 with a brief introduction in "Comments" below. You'll find my intro there already. Looking forward to learning with you.

Remaining Questions

Looking over your notes, readings, the blogs, and your classroom experiences, what questions remain for you about teaching reading and writing to children with disabilities? Please post by April 18, so that there is time to assist.

Reading Fluency

By March 29, post one thing you understand better about teaching reading fluency from reading either Ch. 6 in Rasinski or Ch. 4 in Allington. Post one question you have about teaching reading fluency.

Letters, Sounds, and Words

By March 24, please post one thing you understand better about teaching letters, sounds, or words from reading Ch. 5 on Word Recognition in Rasinski. Then post one question you have about teaching these skills. For example, can you see how this applies to the population you plan to teach some day?

Ch. 4: Early Intervention (Effective Reading Strategies)

By March 1, post a reflection here about one of the strategies from Ch. 4 in Effective Reading Strategies. What is it about this strategy that makes it particularly important to you as a teacher, or to the kind of classroom you hope to have, or to the kinds of students you hope to teach? What makes it "powerful"?

Linking the Bridge to Emergent Literacy Best Practice

After you've completed the assignments for our virtual class meeting, Feb. 10, think carefully about the best practice recommendations of the position statement you read. How could the Bridge Assessment help you implement best practices in your own classroom. Please give two specific examples. Optional additional task: If you have any questions about the tasks for Feb. 10, ask them here.

Emergent Literacy (Intervention and Assessment)

By Feb. 1, post (a) one idea you have for teaching any of the "components" of emergent literacy (p. 59) as what Rasinski calls a "powerful instructional routine" (p. 74), and (b) one question you have from either reading assignment.

Emergent Literacy (Assessment)

Please post your response by Jan. 25. What are the differences between the Bridge and the ERSI? Why? What question(s) do you have about emergent literacy?

Welcome and Intros

Welcome to the RE 3900 blog on literacy in students with disabilities. Our focus throughout the semester will be on how to teach reading and writing to all of the students you (will) serve in your future and current classrooms. To get started, and to make sure you have successfully found this blog, please reply to this post with a brief introduction in "Comments" below. You'll find my intro there already. See you Wednesday.