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Reading intervention using reciprocal teaching: Benefits for the students and teacher!

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Reading intervention using reciprocal teaching: Benefits for the students and teacher!

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Includes how reading intervention teachers work one on one with students to develop skills and become proficient readers in addition to professional development resource videos for teachers.

"Looking at Reading Interventions shows how teachers can help children develop their skills, overcome difficulties, and become proficient readers."

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Oczuks, L. (2003). Reciprocal teaching at work: Strategies for improving reading comprehension. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Palincsar, A. S. & Brown, A. (1984). Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension Monitoring Activities. Cognition and Instruction, 1(2), pp. 117-175.

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Reciprocal teaching refers to an instructional activity in which students become the teacher in small group reading sessions. Teachers model, then help students learn to guide group discussions using four strategies: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. Once students have learned the strategies, they take turns assuming the role of teacher in leading a dialogue about what has been read.

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Literacy programs are not completely bad and may provide some effective materials, but they should not be the only thing being used to teach readers or struggling readers!

"While many of these programs arm teachers with effective instructional materials, it is very important to remember that students learn through effective teaching, not through programs."

"While there is not a specific program that will meet the developmental literacy needs of every child in a classroom, educators who are knowledgeable and picky will find that most programs offer some materials that may prove effective for one or more of their students."

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If you are planning to purchase a literacy program for instruction, get as much information as you can about a program’s benefits and effectiveness. This article provides basic comparative information about a range of commercially available literacy programs.

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What really works for struggling readers:

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What really works for struggling readers:

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“Of the 153 different reading programs reviewed by the WWC, only one had ‘strong evidence’ that it improved reading achievement! One! That program was Reading Recovery.”

“I have noticed almost no inventive writing activity.”

“We fill struggling readers’ days with tasks that require little reading."

The instruction we currently provide struggling readers too often focuses on isolated lessons targeting specific skill deficits.

Too often these lessons involve the least powerful instructional options as we expect struggling readers to complete worksheet after worksheet, skill lesson after skill lesson, and engage them in round-robin oral reading activities.

When classroom reading lessons for struggling readers are meaning-focused, struggling readers improve more than when lessons are skills-focused.

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Edutopia is a free source of information, inspiration, and practical strategies for learning and teaching in preK-12 education. We are published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.

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Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

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Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

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"Leveled Literacy Interventionis a short-term, supplementary intervention system proven to improve literacy achievement of struggling readers with engaging leveled books and fast-paced systematically designed lessons."

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What is Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) and how is LLI used

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Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

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Effective Interventions for Struggling Readers:

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Effective Interventions for Struggling Readers:

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Is guided oral reading is the best practice for struggling readers?

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The Impact of Scripted Literacy Instruction on Teachers and Students:

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The Impact of Scripted Literacy Instruction on Teachers and Students:

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"The effectiveness of these programs has been questioned as some evidence indicates they have not been found to meet the needs of individual students. Scripted programs keep education and learning at a superficial level in that they narrow opportunities for teachers and students to be innovative."

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Using readers theater for developing reading fluency

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Using readers theater for developing reading fluency

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Why use reader's theater?

It promotes fluency.

It helps readers learn to read aloud with expression.

It helps build reading confidence.

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Language Arts

Reader's theater lesson plans (with scripts):

Reader's theater scripts:

Math

Teachers can use reader's theater as an instructional technique for mathematical word problems. This example could be used for a reader's theater about 100's day and the concept of 100 .

Social Studies

Here are reader's theater scripts about America in varying reading levels.

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Reader's theater is a strategy for developing reading fluency. It involves children in oral reading through reading parts in scripts. In using this strategy, students do not need to memorize their part; they need only to reread it several times, thus developing their fluency skills. The best reader's theater scripts include lots of dialogue.