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This portfolio will help me as a future teacher for when I teach reading. It will be easy for me to go back to this portfolio to quickly look up a definition, or to find activities for my students. It will also be beneficial when I am looking for research to support my teaching. From doing this portfolio, I have learned about several theorists. I have also learned that there are many different ways to teach a topic. Having several activities for a certain topic is helpful because there will be many different types of learners in my classroom. Professional development in literacy is important because it will help teachers to be more successful in their teaching. It is important that teachers learn new techniques and incorporate them into their classroom. Activities should meet the needs of all students, and make learning a fun and interactive process. This assignment address InTasc Standard #8: Instructional Strategies which states “The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways.” This portfolio addresses this standard because many different instructional strategies were listed and described.

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Children's Literature is written material for the information or entertainment of children.

Attached is a list of children's literature with activities for the students.

Children's books can be used to teach both reading and math. This website provides lists of books to teach many different math concepts.
http://proudtobeprimary.com/childrens-books-teaching-math/

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Over the past five years, I've written about many of the children's books we've read and loved. It's impossible to write about them all, although I wish I could. Here are some of our favorites, along with the book activities we did for each one.
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I hope you will find something new here to discover with your children, or perhaps you'll find an old favorite that begs to be explored again.

Great Children's Book Activities

Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping by Peggy Parish
Angelina Ballerina by Katherine Holabird
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems
Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor
Fancy Nancy: The Dazzling Book Report by Jane O'Connor
The Giraffe that Walked to Paris by Nancy Milton
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen
Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling **free printables**
Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
The Mitten by Jan Brett
My First Little House Books series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha Olivia and Olivia Goes to Venice by Ian Falconer Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes (with links to other Henkes books)
Pinkalicious, Purplicious, Goldilicious & Silverlicious by Victoria Kann
Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink by Victoria Kann
Pony Scouts series by Catherine Hapka
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Saige: American Girl Today by Jesse Haas
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle
Who Owns the Sun? by Stacey Chbosky

More Great Ways to Learn With Literature

Top 10 Roald Dahl Books
Book List for Strong, Brave, Courageous Girls
Best Free Books for Kids on Amazon
How to Make a Peeps Diorama of Your Favorite Book

Poetry for Kids
10 Favorite Poetry Books for Kids
10 Ways for Kids to Experience Poetry
7 Ways to an Easy and Fun Poetry Tea Time
Tuesday Tea Time Poetry for Boys and Girls

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Over the past five years, I've written about many of the children's books we've read and loved. It's impossible to write about them all, although I wish I could. Here are some of our favorites, along with the book activities we did for each one.

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New Literacies involve online reading comprehension and learning skills that are required by the Internet or other information and communication technologies (Reading Rockets). Students need to learn how to navigate the web and how to use these technologies.

http://peppyzestyteacherista.com/category/Technology
This website has many different ideas to integrate technology into the classroom, such as a Google Doc that helps document when students do not hand in their homework.

Below are 27 apps that help teachers teach and help students learn.

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Writing as a Process and Writers Workshop

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Writing is a process that involves four steps: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. During writers workshop, students are being repeatedly exposed to the process of writing.
Donald Graves stated that all children are able to write if they are given proper guidance. Through the writing process, children will be able to become better writers.
http://micromaster14.weebly.com/donald-graves.html

Below is a checklist for writer's workshop. Students are able to keep track of each step in the process of writing.
http://performingineducation.com/2015/12/how-to-run-a-successful-writers-workshop.html

Below is a chart that shows a list of goals for the student. As they each reach a goal in writers workshop, their name is moved.

http://www.mrsjonessclass.com/search/label/writer's%20workshop

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In a reading workshop, students learn reading and comprehension strategies. A workshop allows for a teacher to meet the needs of all students.
Lucy Calkins is one of the original creators of the "workshop". She believes that students should work in small groups and help one another, and the teacher should conference with the students as much as possible. http://educationnext.org/the-lucy-calkins-project/

Below is a worksheet the student can fill out after working with the teacher during readers workshop. This will help the parents know where the student is struggling and how they can help.
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Below is a readers workshop schedule.
http://teachingsweetshoppe.blogspot.com/2014/02/sneak-peek-at-my-reading-workshop-board.html

http://triciasterrificteachingtrinkets.blogspot.com/

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SNEAK PEEK at my Reading Workshop board!

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Reading comprehension is the ability to read a text, process it, and understand its meaning. Michael Pressley believed that there are several strategies to teach comprehension. Students should learn decoding skills and vocabulary, and build word knowledge. They should also engage in active comprehension strategies and monitor their comprehension.
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/specialeducationinduction/files/2013/07/1-Comprehension.pdf

To check comprehension, students can play a game after they finished reading the story. In groups, the students can use a spinner to pick a question to answer.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Guided-Reading-Games-and-Activities-for-Comprehension-1275277While reading, students can use post-its to keep track of their thoughts and the story.

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Vocabulary Development is the process in which individuals acquire words.

Vocabulary bingo is a fun way to practice new vocabulary words. Students fill out a bingo sheet with their vocabulary words. Instead of calling out the actual word, the teacher will read the definition.
http://www.education.com/activity/article/Vocabulary_Bingo_fifth/

Another fun way to practice vocabulary is Vocabulary Cubes. Students work in pairs and they each write down 6 vocabulary words. The first dice rolled will determine which word they are using, and the second dice rolled will determine which strategy they will use.
https://devotedtovocabulary.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/4-14-40-method/

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Read Aloud is when the teacher reads a book to the students.
Marie Clay (1991) believes that read aloud is a great way to negotiate meanings before, during, and after the story. Read aloud guide students into shared, guided and independent reading.
http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/teacher-read-aloud-that-30799.html

One activity that can follow a read aloud is Read Aloud Snapshot. Students fold a piece of paper into sixths. In the first block they write the title of the book. After each read aloud, the students draw the main event or a key point.  http://www.lauracandler.com/strategies/readingaloud.php

Guided Reading is when the teacher works with a small group of students. The students are typically at the same level of reading.

Shared Reading is when students share the reading of a book or text while being guided and supported by the teacher. The teacher models the skills of proficient readers.

Independent Reading is where students choose and read material on their own. Lucy Calkins believes that when students are able to choose their own books, their passion for reading grows. http://educationnext.org/the-lucy-calkins-project/

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Fluency is being able to decode text accurately with automaticity and prosody, as well as with appropriate use of phrasing and expression. LaBerge and Samuels (1974) came up with the Automaticity Theory which centers on the belief that students focus on one component of reading at a time. Therefore, it is important that students are fluent readers and do not spend too much time decoding words or else they will not be able to focus on the meaning of the text.
http://www.readinghorizons.com/reading-strategies/teaching/fluency/reading-fluency-is-it-really-that-important

The link below is for a fluency activity. In this activity, the teacher cuts up groups of sentences and puts them in a bag. Each student picks one and practices reading it independently.  After practicing, they read their sentences in pairs with lots of expression, and then they read it in front of the class. To add to this activity, the teacher can turn it into an acting competition. The student with the best expression wins an "Oscar".

In this activity, students roll a dice to determine how they will read a passage.  They are given a chart with a place to put a word card next to each side of the dice. Then they roll the dice and read the passage with the selected emotion.

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Phonics is the science of sounds.  By learning phonics, students learn to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters.
Jeanne Chall stated that being aware of phonics is one of the most powerful predictors of reading success.  Better readers are a result of intensive phonics instructions.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/02/local/me-39690

Rhyming is an important concept that students must learn. This activity focuses on rhyming words. The students are given a card with a picture and word. Underneath are three more pictures that rhyme with the first word.
http://www.themeasuredmom.com/teach-rhyming-words-fun-printable/

In this activity, students are looking at word families. A word family is placed next to the spinner, such as "ug". Then the student spins the spinner to select a letter. They record the letter and the word family and decide whether or not it makes a word. For example, if the spinner lands on "r" the word is "rug".
http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/spin-a-word-family/

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Learning word families is a fast way to help children recognize a lot of new words quickly because they are groups of words that share the same sound and spelling. By learning the ending {-og} for instance, your child quickly understands how to read and write {dog, log, frog, fog}. This fun, hands-on word family game will have your kids spinning with excitement.

Supplies

To play the game, you'll need to gather a few things:

Several sheets of card stock. (The thicker, the better.)

A circular stencil. (I used the rim of my son's sippy cup.)

A black marker.

Scissors.

A brad.

A printout of the Spin a Word printable (here).

A marker or pencil for your child.

Prep

First, draw a circle on one sheet of card stock. (It took me a couple of tries to make one that I liked.

Next, write about ten consonant letters around the rim of the circle. I used the letters {c, b, r, t, m, p, f, s, l, n}. Cut out the circle.

Cut several long strips from the other pieces of card stock and write one word family at the end of each. I like to use the word families {at, ip, ug, ot, ed} because they cover all of the vowel sounds and include several different consonants.

Then attach one of the word family strips to your circle using a brad. Be careful to attach the brad to the center of your circle so that the wheel spins around evenly. As this picture shows, I didn't get it right the first time.

Play

Now comes the fun! Invite kids to spin a word and write it on the printable. Then, ask them to read the word out loud and decide if it is a real word or a nonsense word. If it is real, they will circle {yes} under the column {Is it Real?}. If it is not, they will circle, {no}.

Children will then turn the wheel to make a new word that they will write on the sheet.

Play continues until all spots on the printable have been completed.

But wait! Once kids are able to read and write words in one word family well, simply detach the word family strip and add a new one like this:

With one quick switch, you're ready for a completely new game. Enjoy!

Find More

For more word family fun, check out our motivating, PRINTABLE Word Family Activity Pack.

About Malia Hollowell

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"Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words" (Begin to Read). Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning.

Adams (1990) and Stanovich (1986) stated that upon entering school, a child's level of phonemic awareness strongly determines the success that the child will have learning to read.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/phonemic-awareness-young-childrenThis activity is for manipulating phonemes. The student picks out a card that has a word or object. Then, they turn on the light as they say each sound.

In this activity, the student hops on a different circle as they say the different sounds in the word. This activity is great for kinesthetic learners.

http://mrsriccaskindergarten.blogspot.com/search/label/Phonemic%20Awareness

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ABC Center for Early Childhood Literacy Development

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ABC Center for Early Childhood Literacy Development

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Emergent Literacy is used to describe what knowledge a student has on reading and writing before they are actually able to read and write. This shows that even children as young as one year old are in the process of becoming literate.

Pre-K students can use this center to introduce themselves to literacy. The ABC center is full of learning games for children to use to have fun while learning. For example, students can learn to spell out their name while lacing letters. In addition to introducing students to letter recognition, alphabet awareness, and simple spelling, this activity also reinforces hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.  The link to this game is listed below.

Another activity that can be used in the ABC center is Highway ABC Cards. Teachers can print out and laminate letter cards and students can use racecars to drive over them. Students can also spell out words using multiple cards. The cards can be found at the following website.

http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/racecarabccards.htm /",

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Learning Resources Smart Snacks ABC Lacing Sweets, 29 Pieces

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Kids reinforce hand-eye coordination by lacing together letters to make words. These 26 colorful beads feature uppercase letters on one side, lowercase letters on the other. Includes 2 laces, a scoop, and candy jar with snap-on lid.