This document provides definitions and instructional strategies for key areas of literacy development - phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension - along with suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners. A variety of formative assessment types are also outlined, including DIBELS, running records, spelling inventories, and comprehension interviews, along with guidance on when and why teachers would use each to monitor student progress in reading behaviors, skills, and comprehension.
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This document provides definitions and instructional strategies for key areas of literacy development - phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension - along with suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners. A variety of formative assessment types are also outlined, including DIBELS, running records, spelling inventories, and comprehension interviews, along with guidance on when and why teachers would use each to monitor student progress in reading behaviors, skills, and comprehension.
This document provides definitions and instructional strategies for key areas of literacy development - phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension - along with suggestions for differentiating instruction for English language learners. A variety of formative assessment types are also outlined, including DIBELS, running records, spelling inventories, and comprehension interviews, along with guidance on when and why teachers would use each to monitor student progress in reading behaviors, skills, and comprehension.
Compendium of Instructional Strategies and Assessments
Area of Focus Definition Instructional Strategies Differentiation for ELL Students
Sing Songs Environmental Print The awareness that spoken Syllables - Follow the beat Phonemic Awareness language consists of phonemes Visuals, Color Coding, Choral Reading or sounds Play "I spy" with sounds Break apart words Read Books with Rhyming Words Word Sorts Choral Reading Picture Boxes Word Ladders Use Pictures, Focus on Teaching Vowel Correlating the sounds with Phonics Sounds, Connect Word Study and letters or groups of letters Word Walls Guided Reading, Use of Word Wall Word Families Onset and Rhyme Language Experience Approach Word Sorts Vocabulary Posters Word Maps Pre-Teach Vocabulary, Use hand Understanding the knowledge Vocabulary Word Chains motions, model use in sentences act of words out words if possible Independent Reading Dictionary Usage Mini Lessons Repeated Readings Phrase Builders Listening Center The ability to read smoothly, Use Audio Books, Model Fluent Reading, Fluency Partner Reading quickly, and with expression Choral Reading Choral Readings Scooping Sentences Readers Theatre Comprehension The process of constructing KWL Charts meaning using the text and Interactive Read Alouds background knowledge Grand Conversations Retelling Writing Poems Visual Cues, Check for Understanding Often, Use Turn and Talk, Sentence Frames, Chunk Text meaning using the text and background knowledge
Visual Cues, Check for Understanding
Questioning before, during and Often, Use Turn and Talk, Sentence after reading. Frames, Chunk Text Semantic Feature Analysis Story Boards Drawing and Diagrams Open-Mind Portraits Hot Seat Assessments Use before, during, or after When and why would you use Type of Assessment What would you hope to learn? Links reading this? This assessment will allow me to see if students have automaticity in letters and sounds and also with sight words. It will Dibels Before reading Three times a year. Dibels allow me to group students based on need to work with them on skills they need to develop inorder to become strong readers. More information about the students Weekly- to track students reading Fountas and Pinnell Running Running Record During and after reading reading behaviors and strategies they are behaviors and fluency Records using To determine the students spelling stage in Beginning of year- to assess order to teach them the spelling strategies Words Their Way Spelling Spelling Inventory Before reading students spelling that they are developmentally ready to Inventory learn. I would use this in the beginning of Quarter 1, and the periodically Students' comprehension progression Comprehension Interview Before and After Interview Questions throughout the year to see how a through first grade standards. student is progressing.