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Balanced reading is when teachers use different ways to help students read, such as writing, reading aloud, and group work. When I was younger, I remember doing reading groups, spelling games, and writing stories. It made reading fun and helped me learn in multiple ways.

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Early intervention helps students who are struggling to get help before they fall too far behind. In the video, I saw how teachers worked with students independentl,y and that gave them the extra support.

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Ms.McCloskey clearly shows her students what to do step by step. She models the reading skill, then gives them time to try it with her help. This is really helpful for multilingual learners because they can see and hear how reading works. It makes it easier for them to understand.

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Balanced reading instruction incorporates phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

As a young reader, I experienced this through various activities. I remember learning letter sounds through phonics-based games, practicing reading aloud to enhance my fluency, and discovering new words through books. Additionally, I recall having discussions about the material we read, which helped me understand the text better.

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The teacher supports students' fluency during choral reading by following along and reading aloud with them. This helped the students stay on track and consistent with their fluency.

My experience with choral reading includes reading out loud as a class or in small groups. This type of reading really helped me become more confident, especially as someone who struggles with reading, and it allowed me to find the proper pace, which improved my fluency over time.

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Early intervention is crucial for a student’s reading success because it tackles challenges they may have early on, before they develop into long-term issues. It aids in development before any gaps widen, helping to build a strong foundation. Altogether, implementing interventions at an early stage ultimately makes learning more effective and easier in the long run.

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Ms.McCloskey is using explicit instruction in many strong ways here. Explicit instruction is when a teacher or educator uses highly structured explanations to guide students to success. This includes breaking apart content to make it easier to digest, as well as clear explanations.

I noticed this teacher prefacing students in a way that she taught them a word, asked them to spell it, say it multiple times, and all before reading it in the story. This strategy makes reading much less intimidating. I also noticed her say “now when you see this word, you will be able to read it.” I believe this break down strategy as well as the high encouragement is a great way to get in touch with all students as well as multicultural learners. I also see how the repetition would be important for them to understand the word and really help it stick in their brains, especially if English is not their first language.

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Ms.McCloskey is using explicit instruction in many strong ways here. Explicit instruction is when a teacher or educator uses highly structured explanations to guide students to success. This includes breaking apart content to make it easier to digest, as well as clear explanations.

I noticed this teacher prefacing students in a way that she taught them a word, asked them to spell it, say it multiple times, and all before reading it in the story. This strategy makes reading much less intimidating. I also noticed her say “now when you see this word, you will be able to read it.” I believe this break down strategy as well as the high encouragement is a great way to get in touch with all students as well as multicultural learners. I also see how the repetition would be important for them to understand the word and really help it stick in their brains, especially if English is not their first language.

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The reading process is defined as constructing meaning from text through various stages and skills - activating prior knowledge, word recognition, comprehension, and fluency. It is explained in this video how it is most important to get to know your students as individuals and allow them to bring their experiences into the classroom to help encourage diversity and variation. It is also explained that feedback is highly important if not entirely necessary to guiding someone to learning a new language. It is also essential to understanding that students will be at different stages of learning and understanding.

I plan to recognize and use all of these tools in my classroom. I plan to encourage the understanding of each other and assist my students in what they need to be successful. The key to this, is to understand everyone is different and to able to guide each person individually.

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Balanced reading instruction is when teachers use different methods to help students learn how to read, like phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It’s a mix of learning how to sound out words and also understanding and enjoying stories.

As a young reader, I experienced this when my teacher had us practice sounding out words, but also gave us time for silent reading and read-alouds. Doing both made me feel more confident because I was learning the skills to figure out words while also learning to enjoy books and their meaning.

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Early intervention is important because it helps students who struggle with reading get support before the problem grows bigger. When kids get help early with skills like phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension, they build a stronger foundation and feel more confident. If reading difficulties are not caught early, students can fall behind and have a harder time catching up later. Early support makes it easier for them to succeed and enjoy reading.

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Early intervention is important because it catches problems before they become a habit. Early intervention helps target areas where students may be struggling and help resolve those issues often with personalized instruction. With catching difficulties early on, students are better set up as they get older.

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The reading process involves making meaningful connections between written texts through various stages and skills, activating your prior knowledge, word recognition, comprehension, and fluency. In the video, they talk about making meaningful connections with your students and allowing them to be their authentic selves. It is actually good to bring diversity into the classroom, and it allows students and teachers to gain new insight into some things they may not be familiar with. It is important to make sure that every child is celebrated in their culture.

I plan to use these tools in my classroom. By making meaningful connections and figuring out what my students are interested in, I plan to build as much as I can off of that. Taking the time to learn where all of my students are is crucial, and understanding that everyone's journey is not going to look the same. Lastly, I plan to be there as a support person when needed so that I can allow my students the opportunity to explore things on their own but use me as a guide they know they can lean on when needing help.

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During choral reading, the teacher is supporting the students' fluency by reading aloud, following along, and keeping them on track. This is beneficial for the student because they can stay on track with the reading, and if they are struggling or mess up a word, the teacher is right there to help them along.

An experience I had with choral reading was in upper elementary school and middle school. We were assigned a book that the whole class had to read, and we would do read-aloud periods during class. This usually worked where we would go around the classroom and each person would read a paragraph. This was helpful to me because most of the time I wasn't very interested in the book, so hearing it aloud and reading it together helped me focus on it.

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Choral reading is an effective way for teachers to check students reading fluency. It gives students the opportunity to read aloud to the class building up their confidence and teachers are able to hear their pace, expression, and fluency. When I was in elementary school we would choral read a lot. I personally did not like choral reading. As a shy, introverted student I would always get nervous having to read aloud. I would not be able to focus on what was read before because I was only thinking about what and when I had to read. I understand why teachers use this strategy, it was just not something I liked as a child.

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Early intervention is very important for a students reading success. Its important to fix any mistakes a student is making when reading early on so it doesn't become a habit that sticks with them. Early intervention can happen by having teachers work one on one with students correcting how they read.

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Ms. McCloskey is using explicit instruction by clearly giving instructions on what she wants the students to do. She tells them to write the word, say the word, spell the word and does it along with them. She then explains where they may see that word (she) in the story and what it means. This is important for multilingual students because it helps them get a better understanding of the word, how it's said, how it's spelled and the meaning. Words like she that are seen often when reading are important to have a good understanding of to be able to understand what you are reading.

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Balanced reading instruction ensures that students receive a well-rounded, student-centered approach to learning. Students experience authentic, meaningful literary experiences in a variety of forms. Instruction is explicit, interactive, and engaging. I experienced balanced reading instruction throughout elementary school. Every teacher I had, K-5, would combine shared reading, guided reading, conferences, literary circles, and independent reading(with books of choice). I remember having literacy activities integrated into all content areas and being aware of my reading progress at all times. Alongside literary activities, my elementary school participated in AR testing. This process would start with choosing a book to read independently(within our determined reading level), then we would be tested on how well we comprehended the book by answering 5-15 questions on a computer. With each test we took, we would also meet with a teacher during the conference so that she could discuss our results and test our comprehension another way. The teacher would then determine if we should stay at our current reading level, or if we should be assigned to a lower/higher level.

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Ms. McCloskey was using explicit instruction by teaching her ELLs a minilesson. She was instructing them when to point to a word, when to read the word aloud, when to spell the word aloud, and when to write a word down. Ms. McCloskey was reinforcing when to use the word and how to identify the word by explaining how/why the word is used in the text. This helps the students better comprehend the reading. It is important to use explicit instruction with ELLs because they are more at risk of falling behind their peers. By using minilessons for identification, repetition, and guided practice, Ms. McCloskey is ensuring that her students will be able to read and comprehend text, and stay on par with their peers.

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The teacher is guiding the small group with choral reading by reading with them. This helps them find rhythm, confidence, and support from their peers with reading aloud.

Choral reading definitely helped with my experience of feeling confident. Especially when I found that others got stuck on a word or struggled to find rhythm, just like I did. It also helped me stay focused during reading time because I had to read along and not just listen to a book being read.

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Early intervention helps prevent children from struggling further down the line. If we take charge early, children have less of a risk of falling behind in later years. It helps small problems not turn into bigger ones that could possibly affect motivation or confidence.

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Early intervention is for young students who may be delayed in their learning and or for students to get ahead of their success through intervention needs. Early intervention in a general stance is so children do not fall behind, which is crucial. Early intervention provides aid and support to ensure students are getting on top of their educational needs at the early stages in their lives. I believe that these programs are a great help to our educational world!

How it can be helpful in reading specifically with aiding children in their alphabet, word comprehension, and fluency in reading in general. Specifically for reading it can help them be at the level they need to be at, or to understand and get ahead of the game!

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The teacher is supporting their reading during 'Choral Reading' by following along, reading aloud with them, helping with the pronunciation of words, and having their peers follow along. This way of expanding their learning is helpful, it is more time consuming, but the fluency that comes along with it, is worth it!

My experience with choral reading is genuinely getting a better understanding of the topic. It's easier to remain focused and attentive to the task at hand and be more involved. It also clarifies any questions or concerns you may have had about a sentence or word in particular. Choral reading has definitely helped me in these ways thus far throughout my educational career.

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A balanced reading instruction is an approach that blends both phonics - based instruction and whole language strategies to teach reading skill comprehensively.

As a young reader, I was able to experience the different steps to beginning letter sounds and then eventually reading on my own. I would work with my classroom teacher to learn the tasks needed to be successful. I always felt super accomplished at the end. As I grew more in my reading abilities, we would have class discussions and talk about the chapter read or over the questions that we had to focus on. I felt that my teachers were always pretty successful in getting the class as a whole to respond attentively to the lesson and objectives.

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Ms. McCloskey is using explicit instruction very well! In the video, you can see that she has a lot of repetition. She asks students questions to check for understanding. Seeing if the students can read and write the word that they are about to experience in their book/reading. She asks related questions to the rading, and breaking things down to a level that the students would understand. Not introducing very many new topics/ideas. But gives them encouragement and examples throughout the whole process.

This is important for multilingual learners because the students deserve to have clear and direct guidance just like their peers. It breaks down the barriers that the student might otherwise experience without their instructor present. Helping guide them through. I think this is a great step in the process of a multilingual learner to master the content necessary to be great in the classroom.