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on 4/25/2012
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In a recent issue of Educational Leadership (Vol 69 No 6), a publication of ASCD, the focus was on reading, the core skill. Richard L. Allington and Rachael E. Gabriel, in their article “Every Child, Every Day”, outlined six research based elements for effective reading instruction. Allington, a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, researches and writes about reading difficulties. ”Despite good intentions, educators often make decisions about instruction that compromise or supplant the kind of experiences all children need to become engaged, successful readers.” Here are six elements of instruction Allington and Gabriel outline that children should experience daily:
- Every child reads something he or she chooses. The research base on student-selected reading is robust and conclusive: Students read more, understand more, and are more likely to continue reading when they have they choose what they read.
- Every child reads accurately. Research shows reading at 98% or higher accuracy is essential for reading acceleration, below 90% accuracy doesn’t improve reading ability at all.
- Every child reads something he or she understands. Research shows here too, that remediation that emphasizes comprehension can change the structure of struggling students’ brains. It takes lots of reading and rereading of text that students find engaging and comprehensible to enable the brain to develop the ability to read.
- Every child writes about something personally meaningful. Writing provides a different modality within which to practice the skills and strategies of reading for an authentic purpose.
- Every child talks with peers about reading and writing. Research has demonstrated that conversation with peers improves comprehension and engagement with texts in a variety of settings. Even small amounts of such conversations can improve standardized test scores.
- Every child listens to a fluent adult read aloud. Listening to an adult model fluent reading increases students’ own fluency and comprehension skills, as well as expanding their vocabulary, background knowledge, sense of story, awareness of genre and text structure, and comprehension of the texts read. Teachers should spend a few minutes a day reading to their students.
So, how to do this? Allington and Gabriel give us two easy suggestions: First, eliminate almost all worksheets and workbooks. Second, ban test-preparation activities and materials from the school day. Eliminating both provides time and money to spend on the things that really matter in developing readers.
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I can say, “coming to a theater near you,” and mean it this year. NEA’s Read Across America campaign will showcase Dr. Seuss’s classic book, The Lorax (1971), as well as NBC/Universal’s movie, The Lorax. The movie premieres on March 2, 2012, Dr. Seuss’s 108th birthday! 1998 marked the first of NEA’s Read Across America events, 2012 will be the 15th. Sts. Peter & Paul Salesian School will join the celebration again for our sixth year. See SSPP Reads blogs Get Ready for Read Across America (01/02/2011), The Perfect Book (02/16/2011), and Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! (03/02/2011) for tips on reading to your child, book lists, and news about Dr. Seuss.
You might want to check out the Dr. Seuss National Memorial at the Quadrangle in Springfield, MA, the site of the Lorax sculpture pictured in the graphic above. Target stores, Scholastic Books and Random House Publishers also have special events, books and lesson plans you might want to explore.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. –Dr. Seuss
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on 9/7/2011
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Admission Day, September 9, was a state holiday when I was a girl. Today we look at our history with a more critical eye to get a better understanding of the human condition. California became the 31st state to join the Union on September 9, 1850, not long after gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 in Coloma. By 1869 the first westbound train arrived in San Francisco thanks in no small part to the Chinese and Irish Immigrants yet in 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act which banned all Chinese immigration.
California History is the fourth grade curriculum throughout California. Here at Sts. Peter & Paul’s we use the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt History/Social Science textbook and follow the California State Standards and the Archdiocesan Curriculum Guidelines. Students in fourth grade explore history, indigenous people of California, the Spanish and Russian influence in our history, the California Missions, the Gold Rush, immigration to the Golden State, and of course geography.
You might want to check out some of these links to learn more about the great state of California and you too can exclaim Eureka! I have found it!
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on 8/10/2011
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Parents often ask, how old do my kids need to be before I can stop reading aloud with them? Looks like they are never too old! The Forum on Child and Family Statistics recently published America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011, a summary of national indicators of children’s well-being and monitors changes in those indicators. One key indicator is the family reading to young children at home. It is linked to reading development and later on, achievement in reading comprehension and overall success in school. This study was a feature article in the recent issue of Reading Today, the International Reading Association’s bimonthly newspaper.The Florida Center for Reading Research lends support to this indicator and has made available to families recommendations to help families promote literacy development at home. Here at Sts. Peter and Paul Salesian School, our K-5 reading program– Houghton Mifflin’s The Nation’s Choice, recently upgraded to the Medallion Edition, provides recommended leveled reading lists for students (easy, on level, challenge), independent readers, and for read alouds for students in K-5. You might want to check the lists out here, and then get the books at the public library. Nothing like a good story to get the imagination running, dendrites clicking, and getting ready for school!
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