Which ones are important and how will they be taught?
All the components in reading are very important for a
student to have skills with. These
components include: phonemic awareness, alphabetics (letter knowledge,
phonological awareness, phonics), motivation, fluency, vocabulary, and reading
comprehension. Background knowledge in
all of these areas are necessary in order to continue growing in reading and
writing skills. It is important for a
student to practice skills within these components on a daily basis. I believe all of them are important for a
student to develop their reading skills and be well rounded in the area of
literacy. I know I will use many different strategies for teaching these
components. I want to practice utilizing
many different strategies in order to learn what works best with my
students. Knowing what strategies to use
and how to implement them will be developed over time and with more experience. It also will depend on the learning styles of
my future students and on what motivates them.
One strategy, presented in class, was Reading Recovery. I believe
this is a great way for students to practice many components of reading. The lesson overview includes rereading,
running record, magnetic letter work, writing, cut-up sentence, and a new
book. This method helps a student feel
confident in their reading by starting with a familiar text and building up to
a new one through a series of steps. It helps
the student understand how letters and words work. The student also has the opportunity to
practice their writing and making sentences. The sequence within this strategy
is perfect for a child to build their skills and work towards solving reading
work independently.
When teaching fluency, I plan to use a lot of modeling. Some strategies to promote fluency are choral
reading, partner reading, tape assisted reading, and shared reading. I think all of these will be useful for students
in my future classroom.
Vocabulary has many strategies that can be used. A few that I will make use of and teach to my
students will be word hunts, word maps, and word walls. Vocabulary can be implemented in all lessons
in all different ways.
Finally, reading comprehension is a major factor in
successful students. It is very
important that students not only learn how to read but understand what they are
reading and are able to relate it to other things. Again, there are numerous
strategies for this component. Just a
few that I plan to use to teach my students are sequencing, concept maps,
summarizing, think-alouds, question-answers, and reciprocal teaching. All of
these will give my students the opportunity to think about what they have
read.
Overall, I believe all the components are important to teach
to students. They need all the
components in order to be a successful reader.
With the deaf and/or hard of hearing students the same strategies can be
used, however modifications may need to be considered in order for the students
to fully comprehend what they are doing and how to do it. They may need more assistance, direct
teaching, and modeling in order to be successful.
Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI also agree that all the components of reading are important. I do not think that one component is more important than the other. I believe that they are all needed and build upon each other in order for the student to be the most successful. I also made a comment about the reading recovery that we learned about in our night class. I think that this is a great tool to use with new readers. It is a great way to assess students who are reading at the appropriate age level, as well as focus on how to help the other learned be more successful by exposing them to sight words and guiding them through the reading and teaching them strategies to be successful readers. Great post!