Notes from A's class:
Sets goal for today: review, get you ready for Pattern Book lesson, due in 2 weeks.
Review of C-L-R. Model is drawing of head with C & L in it and a children's book sitting on top of it. Refer to new document on Bb that reviews cuing systems for each area. Good readers rely on syntactic and semantic, not graphophonic. Proved that by "Oxford study" text on screen and by exercise with "Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King gave his famous I have a dream speech..."
To make you use semantic and syntactic, take away graphophonic. That's teaching. Teaching is not telling. If you want to be a teller, go work at a bank.
Teaching is changing behavior.
Help kids read with expression by demonstrating it. You can't just tell, you must teach. Those of you who've been around kids and pools, how well does it work to just tell them to slow down and not run. That doesn't work. Many of you have had too many teachers who are tellers, so you think that's what teaching is.
The other thing from last week was the relationship between the language arts. Last week, I drew the diagram. This week, I'm just saying the words and motioning. I'm transferring it to your brain. (Review, what's the relationship b/t listening and speaking? etc.)
Want kids to be able to express themselves. Teaching is changing.
We also talked about modalities. Wrote on back, forced her to use tactile and kinesthetic, could not use auditory, visual, etc.
Helen Keller had many teachers (let's not call them teachers, because her behavior didn't change). Along came Annie Sullivan, her teacher was Grace Fernauld. Together they came up with the VAKT method - visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile. That famous scene, using all of the pathways, breakthrough. Once you open up one of those pathways, the others will open up. Clogged drain analogy.
Modalities are very important when you are teaching. Use all of them, as much as you can.
New topic of the day: Emergent literacy
We're going to start with young children, and I'll teach you how to teach them, then we'll move all the way up to 6th grade. Structure of course.
Emerge = morpheme
Two plots of land, growing flowers. One gets fertilizer, testing, planning, pull weeds. Both get sun and water.
Ask about process of making literacy notebook. Ask about stories that they got from parents. Favorite book that you liked to read every day - your emergent stage.
If you don't remember learning to read, it's because it just happened naturally. How many of you were read to as a child?
Call out stories from crowd. How do I remember your stories? What does mem mean?
Reading highway analogy.
What is your schema?
Highway 4310, which way does it go? East-west, because it ends in an even number. Odd numbered highways run north-south. When should kids learn that? Teach them this when they learn even and odd numbers. It's simple to learn. It makes you start thinking. You are trying to create learners and thinkers. You'll see a highway and think about which direction it runs.
Places cars on reading highway. We don't want the kids who are just learning to drive, on the reading highway. They are on the on-ramp. When you are going onto the highway, you have to merge. e-merge-nt. We want to help them get ready to merge. If they go in too soon, what will happen? They'll crash. Then they'll need a tow truck. It's not right to be a failure at 5 years old. When you fail, you feel like a failure. The moment they are not sure and you feel like they are not getting it, back off. Make sure they are ready to succeed. How do we make sure they are ready? C & L. Talk to them about lots and lots of things. Read to them on a regular basis. Teach them the letters of the alphabet, and sounds with letters.
Google "phonemic awareness".
I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with small. It begins with a b, my word is...
I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with cat. It begins with a b, my word is...
That makes you feel successful.
Should be natural to learn at the emergent stage. Letters on refridgerator. Playing rhyming games.
Story about student program at church; emergent literacy. Bradley, student in LA, poor child from cotton fields. Teacher said Bradley would disrupt the whole program. I know that students who will try to disrupt the whole program because he's frustrated. You're asking him to drive on the highway, and he's just on the on-ramp. Don't judge them, don't label them, meet them where they are.
On the emergent ramp, I want them to have a store of about 50 words that they can read. Helpful to know initial sounds. (Put ball and boy together. Put together things that begin with a T). Conventions (or concepts) of print.
You'll meet some kids that are on this ramp that should not be taught to read yet because they don't have all of this stuff. That's where your pattern book lesson comes in.
Bring in pattern book next week so that I can make sure you have a book that will work.
Repetitive syntax
Consistent theme
May have rhyming pattern
Look for a book that the kids will have memorized after 3 or 4 times
Teaching concepts of print (left to right, top to bottom)
How to do this:
Come up with a catchy syntactic phrase
Get a theme
Add a rhyming word
Suggest not Dr. Suess
Wonderful to read to children
Not wonderful to teach them to read
- Long (64 pages)
- Words spread all over and around page
- Made up words
Brown Bear, Very Hungry Caterpillar
Could be colors, days of the week, opposites, etc.
You could make your own book.
Lesson format: Pre-reading, reading, post-reading.
No objectives, because I know what the objectives are.
Pre-reading: Activate schemata. (May need to develop schemata). Create interest.
Check to make sure that they have the necessary schema. Focus on cognitive and linguistic. (If they don't, you are setting them up for failure. It should be a slam dunk for the kid, if you are doing your job right.)
T-ball analogy. We know that kids at that age aren't equipped to hit the ball. So we...
Tricycle analogy. We know they can't balance a bicycle, so we set them up for success by having three wheels. Move to bicycle with training wheels.
For a pattern book lesson, the training wheels are the repetitive patterns. They will feel like they are reading - we know they are not. But they feel like they are.
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