Reading Response 7 Notes

EDU 401 Reading Response 7 Notes Reutzel and Cooter CHAPTER 3- Oral Language and Listening: The Foundation of Literacy Words Their Way- pages 392-396 1. Summarize and explain the big idea(s) in the chapter: ● In Reutzel and Cooter Oral Language and Listening: The Foundation of Literacy, chapter three expresses the importance of speaking and listening in the common core state standards. This chapter gives a background on the birth of oral language, the phases, and how to infuse academic vocabulary into oral language. Chapter three expresses how important it is to create language rich classroom environments and how to assess oral language development with each individual student. ● In Words Their Way, pages 392-396 expresses how to assess students on their knowledge of being able to read. The concept of word assessment, or COW, explains children’s ability to correctly track or point to the words they are reading. This assessment shows teachers if students actually know the words they are reading, or if they just have the text memorized. Tracking memorized lines of print assesses the concept of words with one student at a time. When assessing for COW, teachers score it in three main points: developing, rudimentary, and firm. Developing COW means that students read from left to right and then begin to change directions, their pointing seems vague, they point to a letter for each syllable or rhythmic beat, and students point to words for each rhythmic beat. Rudimentary COW means students point correctly to words but they get off track and they begin to self correct when they notice they are off track. Lastly, firm COW means students point correctly and are able to point to each word. This chapter provides readers with different assessments about print, name writing, writing samples during reading, kindergarten spelling inventory, beginning consonant sounds and letters, and how to observe student writing. It allows teachers to assess students on if they can recognize words in context. 2. How do you teach it? ● In Reutzel and Cooter Oral Language and Listening: The Foundation of Literacy, a teacher can set clear objectives, create a supportive environment, build a strong foundation of vocabulary and grammar, have effective oral communication and modeling correct punctuation. There are many different ways to teach oral language to students, including having labels around the classroom for students to see and read: sink, library, closet, computers. ● In Words Their Way, there are many different ways to teach/assess a student on their ability to read. I would teach reading through phonics and making sure my students know what sound each letter makes, including long and soft letters. This is an important part of teaching children how to read. For example, when teaching students about beginning consonant sounds and letters, teachers can give students a paper full of pictures. The teacher can then explain that they are going to match the name of the picture to the picture. This teaches children how to read and become aware of daily objects that are around them. 3. Notes must include 3-5 strategies ● In Reutzel and Cooter Oral Language and Listening: The Foundation of Literacy, this chapter explains a way to assess oral language development within a student. When it

comes to the informal language inventory, the purpose is to assess in a simple and quick way to measure a students’ growth in conversational oral language growth. A teacher can assess this by showing a student a variety of different pictures and asking them to tell you about the pictures. A teacher can analyze student responses. ● In Words Their Way, specific strategies mentioned in the book include how teachers can observe a child's concept of print through reading. During reading, teachers can check off concepts children understand by asking questions during either a read aloud or shared readings within the class. For an assessment, a teacher can sit down with a student and use an easy reading book that has at least one question. A teacher can express to the child that they will be reading the story aloud to them and they will have a question to answer at the end of the story. An example of a question can be “What do the characters in the story do with the flowers they pick?” ● Another example within Words Their Way includes how to assess students when they write their names. A teacher can provide a piece of paper and ask students to draw a picture of themselves and to write their name underneath the picture. If a child says they don’t know how to write their own name, a teacher can encourage them to try and to do the best they can. Before a teacher collects the drawings, the teacher can ask the students to all point to their names on the paper, ask if they have letters and to identify them. Teachers can record scores on the CAP assessment form. 4. How do you assess (test) it? List 2 strategies from the 50 Literacy Strategies Book. ● According to 50 Literacy Strategies, books/alphabet books and choral reading are a good way to assess students' knowledge on phonics and if they are able to read or point to the words they are reading. Alphabet books can be used to test children’s knowledge on the alphabet and the sounds within simple words. Books are a good way to teach letter recognition, letter naming, letter formation, and phonics. One on one or as a class, teachers can go over each word, letter of the alphabet and the sounds the letters make. This is a way to assess if the student knows the word in order for them to begin reading more difficult books. Spelling tests also allow the teacher to know what words and sounds their students have trouble with. Choral reading allows students to read short passages aloud or all together. By reading the same text, students will learn more about the correct way to spell and pronounce words. This correlates to how children learn how to read. Students’ word knowledge can be directed by reading as a group. To assess children as they read aloud, teachers can listen for words they don’t know. Teachers can focus on the words students don’t know by going over the sounds each letter makes within the word. 5. Why does it matter? Explain and Link the TPE: TPE 1-7 ● It is important to assess students on their knowledge of phonics and how to read in order for teachers to learn different strategies on ways to teach their class properly. According to the TPE form, engaging and supporting all students in learning, creating and maintaining effective environments for student learning, understanding and organizing subject matter for student learning, planning instruction and designing learning experiences for all students, assessing student learning and developing as a professional educator is important to have a successful classroom.