KWL+Teaching+Reading

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= **What I Know about teaching reading** = Read slowly/talk loudly. How much I don't know Give directions, model strategies, Reading needs to be a strategic and mindful process. It is necessary to engage prior knowlede. It is helpful to make connections for students/scaffold the process of making connections. Incorporate student interests into the reading material: video games, sports, etc That there is more to literacy than just reading. 21st century literacy is a new concept, one without definitions, but necessary to consider and begin to teach our students. It won't come as easily to everyone as it did for me Requires patience, lots of different approaches Listen to how they are feeling as they try to read, allow them to make mistakes and give them time to figure things out before you step in and tell them the answer, use pictures to help them understand different words Students love to be read to at all ages, often children's picture books are good introductions Try to be available one on one Students need a diverse set of reading materials. Students need to be aware of ways they read inside as well as outside of the classroom. Many students read at different paces

= **What I Want to Know about teaching reading** = Where do you start? And does it ever end? (No) How to teach a studen t who is struggling with reading How to e n courage a life long love of reading; How to help struggling readers, How to improve reading comprehension; How to teach vocabulary with retention/make it meaningful as opposed to rote memorization; How to differentiate the teaching of one text in class How to effective ly teach reading to someone with a learning disability How to work in a classroom with students that are at all different levels Differentiation and scaffolding of material. How to pick a material that the students can engage with How to measure reading levels. Is there really a huge difference between teaching English to middle school aged kids and highschoolers? Aside from the literacy gap? Yes, because of different cognitive development. How much overlap is there really been English/Reading - do the teachers work together regularly? Depending on the school and team, but at Jackson MS we do. How to better incorporate different learning strategies and intelligences into the reading environment How could someone get to the middle school grades and still not know how to read? Rather than point the student as the cause, why does the system do this? How does writing affect an ability to read... or vice versa How to help students improve reading comprehenion, vocabulary, writing skills, grammar. A wide range of lesson plans How to help students learn to love reading, how t o bring the lesson to reach students of all abilit y levels How to reach all different types of learners. A vast array of skills/different ways of teaching reading, so that all students can learn. How do you incorporate writing and reading--and at what point? We combine both, generally alongside each other. How do you help a student who is far behind the class? Tutoring, ELL, individual attention. How to help students develop in academic and creative writing. Writing may not be their favorite thing to do, make it interesting by directing them to things they like/do/are interested in. At what point should we encourage students to read material with value beyond entertainment? RIght now I feel, as a MS teacher, that I should concentrate on getting them to read without worrying over the content. Mastery of reading should eventually lead them to seek out material beyond entertainment.

= **What I've Learned about teaching reading** = How t o show them the importance of reading