Transcript EDU 4245

EDU 4245
Why Does Reading Matter?
Standards – Beneficial or
detrimental?
Reading Task
• Why problematic?
Textbooks
• What are some problems with way middle
and high schools use textbooks?
• Why does reading decline starting 5th
grade?
• “The teachers taught students, not
programs. They worried about engaging
students with reading and writing in the
content areas.” (Allington)
• What are some general solutions?
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Key Terms
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A Nation at Risk
Assign and tell
Content literacy
Content reading
Instructional scaffolding
Levels of comprehension
Literacy
Metacognition
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Prior knowledge
Reader response
Reading process
Schema activation
Schema theory
Standards-based
instruction
• Student interest
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Classroom Factors that Influence
Content Literacy
• The learner’s prior knowledge of, attitude
toward, and interest in the subject
• The learner’s purpose for engaging in
reading, writing, and discussion
• The language and conceptual difficulty of
the text material
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Classroom Factors Continued
• The assumptions that the text writers
make about their audience of readers
• The text structures that writers use to
organize ideas and information
• The teacher’s beliefs about the attitude
toward the use of texts in learning
situations
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Good readers are:
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Active
Purposeful
Evaluative
Thoughtful
Strategic
Persistent
Productive
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
For your position
• 3-4 major points of the argument for your
positions
• Problems/potential problems with these
arguments
• 1-2 assumptions
• Any questions you have
Danielle
• How do standards affect Danielle and
what she does or should do in her
classroom?
• Are they beneficial or detrimental?
For Thursday
• What is meant by “achievement gap”?
• When you read think about:
– Why do we have an achievement gap?
– What does this mean for you as a teacher?