Effective Literacy Practices Video LibraryElliott Benzle2022-09-01T13:01:49-05:00
EFFECTIVE LITERACY PRACTICES VIDEO LIBRARY
Teachers may use the video library flexibly as they select and view the modules. Groups of educators may wish to view modules together and discuss implications for teaching practices. RRCNA members can earn contact hour credit for viewing these and other professional development videos in the e-Learning Center.
Videos
Making It Easy to Learn
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Module Focus
Building on a child’s strengths to set up situations in which the child is in control and will experience success while enjoying challenges within reach
Key Points for Teachers
The teacher sets up fail-safe situations in which each child can initiate successful activity —working out some possibilities, discovering things for himself, extending his problem-solving skills, and enjoying the challenge that is within reach. Only when the task is within their control can children take on new learning with success and enthusiasm.
Effective teachers provide a delicate balance of ease and challenge so that the learner will continue to learn, experience success, and enjoy the process. Teachers accept and acknowledge a child’s attempts and approximations that are ‘almost right.’
Being in control is important at every point in a child’s learning. Teachers who know what a child controls can call for the child to initiate and carry out actions on his own — building independent learning from the very beginning.
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Building on a child’s strengths to set up situations in which the child is in control and will experience success while enjoying challenges within reach
Teaching for Transfer: Strategic Activity
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Module Focus
An exploration of strategic activities initiated by children and actions teachers can take to encourage those behaviors
Key Points for Teachers
Effective teachers provide massive opportunities for children to successfully read and write texts within their reach so they will build up the networks in their brain to pick up information, work on that information, make decisions, and evaluate their responses. They prompt children to use information to solve problems as they read.
It is important to check for evidence of strategic activities with individual children. With running records of text reading, teachers can record and analyze reading behaviors and monitor progress over time. It’s not just about accurate reading. It’s more about how children are learning to recognize and solve problems.
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Exploring strategic activities initiated by children and actions teachers can take to encourage those behaviors
Selecting Texts That Are Just Right
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Module Focus
The importance of selecting books that are just right for young readers, considerations for book selection, and the critical role of the book introduction in making books accessible and successful for the readers
Key Points for Teachers
The texts that teachers select should be ‘just right’ for children. They should be interesting and offer an appropriate level of challenge — not too easy and not too hard. Texts should be within each child’s control and encourage successful problem solving.
After carefully selecting an appropriate text, effective teachers think about the best way to help children orient themselves to this particular text. Introductions will vary according to the text itself and the knowledge the children bring to the text.
The ultimate goal is for children to learn how to take over the responsibility for orienting themselves to new texts as they enjoy becoming successful and independent readers.
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Understanding the importance of selecting books that are just right for young readers, considerations for book selection, and the critical role of the book introduction in making books accessible and successful for the readers
Phrasing in Fluent Reading
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Module Focus
Exploring aspects of fluent reading and supporting phrasing in fluent reading
Key Points for Teachers
Reading with phrasing in fluent reading allows children to use meaning and structure sources of information to support the use of visual information, thus helping them problem solve as they read text. It also involves putting together all sources of information — meaning, language structures, and print knowledge — in an integrated and flexible manner to support the comprehension of text. When this happens, phrased and fluent reading is not simply a product of reading, but a major contributor to reading proficiency.
To monitor a child’s progress, teachers can record how the child’s reading sounded on the running record form. Did the reading sound like talking? Is the reader learning how to pause appropriately, read in phrases, and use punctuation, pitch, and stress to get the message? And are these behaviors flexible and changing over time?
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Exploring aspects of fluent reading and supporting phrasing in fluent reading
Assessing Through Close Observation
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Module Focus
Close, systematic observation as a way to assess rapid change in literacy learning of young children
Key Points for Teachers
To ensure progress in reading and writing, teachers must take time to observe what children are able to do.
Running records of text reading and other Observation Survey tasks are standard and neutral observation tasks that require skilled teachers who have been trained to administer, score, and interpret results in reliable ways. Resources cited below include information about a learning package for teachers who want to learn to administer, analyze, and use running record data to make teaching decisions.
Effective teachers also find opportunities to observe throughout the school day to get rich information about each child’s literacy development — and to use that information to plan teaching moves. And children will be the beneficiaries of differentiated instruction based on observation — as they enjoy success in learning to read and write.
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Assessing rapid change in literacy learning of young children through close, systematic observation
Learning About Phonology and Orthography
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Module Focus
Learning about the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language (often referred to as letter-sound associations, graphophonics, sound-symbol relationships)
Key Points for Teachers
Through reading and writing continuous text, children learn about sound-symbol relationships, they take on known reading and writing vocabularies, and they can use what they know about words to generate new learning.
There is no sequence for this learning—rather the child’s skills determine the sequence. Teacher guidance supports this learning, but the goal is for children to take the initiative to continue to learn on their own —and to enjoy discovering new things about their language.
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Learning about relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language (often referred to as letter-sound associations, graphophonics, sound-symbol relationships)
Professional Development Resources to Strengthen Early Literacy Outcomes
This video library offers extensive examples to help educators strengthen early literacy outcomes for K-3 students. Six effective literacy practices are highlighted to deepen teachers’ understandings of literacy learning. The practices may be incorporated into teaching in the classroom, small groups, and one-on-one instruction. The web-based modules, listed and linked at the bottom of this page, consist of a short video and a downloadable reference guide.
Audience
K-3 classroom teachers, Reading Recovery teachers, specialist teachers, literacy coaches, and school administrators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of effective literacy practices.
Format
Each module highlights one literacy practice and consists of a short video (approximately 7 minutes) and a downloadable 2-page reference guide. The guide includes the module focus, definitions and other important information, key points for teachers, and resources. Reading the reference guide prior to viewing the video will enhance your learning experience.
Constructing a More Complex Neural Network for Working on Written Language That Learns to Extend Itself by Carol A. Lyons
Reading Recovery IS the Science(s) of Reading and the Art of Teaching by Debra Semm Rich
Predictions of Progress: Charting, Adjusting, and Shaping Individual Lessons by Janice Van Dyke and Melissa Wilde
Teachers Designing for Context: Using Integrity Principles to Design Early Literacy Support in Aotearoa New Zealand by Rebecca Jesson, Judy Aitken, and Yu Liu
