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Citrus: Literacy, Learners &

LeadersAn Overview

Non-negotiable Expectations for Daily Practice With Five Elements of Reading

Developed byKit Humbaugh & Karen Lisa

Program Specialists for Language Arts

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In schools that improve literacy…

•Research based intervention is consistently implemented, monitored, and evaluated.

•All teachers K-12 consistently teach, model, and practice literacy strategies before, during, and after reading.

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What Is Literacy?

Citrus County Schools defines literacy as 7 processes:

listening, viewing,

thinking, speaking,

reading,writing and

expressing through multiple symbol systems.

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Daily Non-Negotiables K-12

• Have a print rich literacy environment• Use the seven processes of literacy• Read to and with students• Teach, model and practice strategies of

expert readers and writers.• Require accountable independent

reading.• Instruct phonics and phonemic

awareness in K/1, and for others who have not reached mastery.

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How do these affect me?

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The Five Components of Reading

• Phonemic Awareness• Phonics• Fluency• Comprehension• Vocabulary

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Phonemic Awareness

• The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words.

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Phonics

Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of the spoken language.

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FluencyFluency is the ability to read with

appropriate speed, with accuracy and with prosody.

Fluency is the bridge between the other elements and comprehension.

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Vocabulary

• Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively.

• This includes oral reading, silent reading, writing, and listening vocabulary.

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Comprehension

• Comprehension is the ability to understand and gain meaning from a written or spoken text.

• It is the reason for reading!

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Strategies of Expert Readers

• Prediction: What is it about? What will happen next?

• Visualization: Picturing the concept or narrative.

• Connection: Making connections to self, to other texts, and to the world.

• Questioning: Asking questions, do I understand?

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Strategies of Expert Readers

• Clarification: Answering their own questions with context clues, pictures, rereading, etc

• Evaluation: opinions, before, during, and after strategies

• Summarization• Use of Graphic Organizers

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Future modules

• Vocabulary• Fluency• Comprehension• Questioning• Reading/Writing Connection• Using Data to Inform Instruction• Print/Literacy Rich Environments

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Citrus County Literacy, Learners &

Leaders