Developing a Literate Child: The Importance of Language to Learning

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Developing a Literate Child: The importance of language to learning Betty Y Ashbaker Brigham Young University Provo, UT [email protected] Jill Morgan Swansea Metropolitan University Swansea, Wales [email protected]

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Presentation at the 2011 National Resource Center for Paraprofessionals Conference by Betty Ashbaker & Jill Morgan.

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  • 1. Developing a Literate Child: The importance of language to learning
    Betty Y Ashbaker
    Brigham Young University
    Provo, UT
    [email protected]
    Jill Morgan
    Swansea Metropolitan University
    Swansea, Wales
    [email protected]

2. Who are you?
What do you do?
Where do you work?
How long have you been in your job?
3. What is Reading?
4. Reading
System of complex cognitive processes that requires recognizing and making sense of written symbols that represent speech.
Readers must decode the symbol system and grasp the writers intended meaning.
5. 6. 7. 8. 9. What We Know
Most struggling 1st graders do not catch up.
Number of struggling readers grades 4-12
More than 8 million
Number of high school student who drop out daily
More than 3,000
Students in the lowest 25% are __?__ times more likely to drop out of high school
20 times.
What is the greatest academic concern?
READING
10. 11. 12. 13. How many children are read to by their parents every day?
45% of children below age 3 years
56% of children age 3 to 5 years
This means that approximately half of all children under the age of 5 are not read to by their parents on a daily basis.
14. Paraprofessionals Role
To assist students in accessing as much of the prescribed curriculum as possible,
To help them perform to their maximum potential, according to their abilities.
To use effective instruction techniques.
15. Establish a business-like atmosphere, where it is obvious that learning takes priority.
Your attitude shows that learning is an exciting and challenging activity that you are eager to engage in with your students.
Such an attitude
helps to keep
students on-task
and reduces the
likelihood of
inappropriate
behavior.
16. Approaches to Teaching Reading

  • Balanced literacy

17. Reading recoveryPhonics
Whole language
18. The problem isnt that we dont know what to do,it is that we dont do what we know (Heward, 2003).
19. Heres What We Must Do !
Use explicit instructional strategies
Address specific strengths and weaknesses
Address the 5 essential components of reading
Use coordinated instructional sequences
Give ample practice with aligned student materials
20. 5 Big Ideas in Early Literacy identified by the National Reading Panel:
Phonemic Awareness
Alphabetic Principle
Accuracy and Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
21. Phonemic Awareness
Phoneme Isolation
Phoneme Identification
Phoneme Categorization
Onset and Rime
22. The Alphabetic Principle
Naming letters
Supporting early understanding of alphabetic principles
23. Alphabetic

  • Display the childs first name in several places in the classroom.

24. Write messages to the child on small flip notebooks. These can be made from scrap paper stapled together along one edge. Then encourage the child to send messages back and tell you what they have written. 25. Help the child access the computer and software that supports the development of early literacy skills.