Integrating Literacy Final Project by Marie Arrieta

Making Connections

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 20:55:46 UTC

For this reading strategy, students are tasked with relating the text to self, text to other texts, and text to world. Modifications for this activity also include text to media.

Fishbowl Discussion

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:09:21 UTC

This type of strategy is related to the Socratic methods of student discussion.

Edutopia provides a number of resources to teachers through their website. From their Youtube channel, I found a short explanation of how this activity is designed to be performed.

Super Six Comprehension Strategies

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:32:33 UTC

Making Connections is the first strategy outlined in the Super Six Comprehension Strategies.

Teacher's Toolkit

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:34:43 UTC

Super Six Comprehension Strategies are widely used in the Australian curriculum.

History

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:43:38 UTC

The strategy began with Lori D Oczkus, an American literary coach. Oczkus reviewed the research on reading comprehension to develop a framework for teachers to incorporate into classrooms. The book was published in 2004 and titled: Super Six Comprehension Strategies: 35 Lessons and More for Reading Success. Ocxkus wrote the book not only to help with struggling readers but to create new and creative ways to engage already proficient students.

Additional Resource

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:46:19 UTC

While researching, I found this blog by Teacher Starter. This website includes free graphic organizers.

For My Classroom:

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 21:53:20 UTC

With the Literary Strategies Notebook, under Reading Comprehension, I found there were a lot of graphic organizers. Though this is technically a graphic organizer as well, this would be interesting to incorporate into my classroom. This strategy would allow the entire class to be involved in one activity rather than in their own individual assignment. We could discuss why certain students related "To Kill a Mockingbird" to "The Color Purple". What do these two text share? This format provides a foundation for other learning strategies, like discussion and reflection summaries.

Between Socratic and Fishbowl Strategies

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 22:19:41 UTC

I liked this resource created by Dana Levesque and Val Grenawalt.

The Socratic and Fishbowl strategies allow student discussions to go deeper allowing for more thought while traditional discussion often made students feel like the teacher had 'one true answer'.

Traditional discussion strategies typically depended on teachers to take the lead, whereas Socratic and Fishbowl strategies often require students to direct the discussion (the teacher merely facilitates as necessary).

Between the two strategies, they vary in how they are executed which is important. For the Fishbowl strategy specifically, students who are more introverted may prefer this method to Socrative strategies.

What is Worth Talking About?

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 22:26:47 UTC

While researching Fishbowl strategies, I stumbled upon this book written by Kelly Gallagher. Another book I have by Gallagher is Readicide: How Schools are Killing Read and What You Can Do About It. These books provide insight to teachers on how to better their role in the classroom, which I can see fitting under Teacher Input in our Literary Strategies Notebook presentation.

The Strategy

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 22:29:33 UTC

In this image, students share what they feel is 'worth' talking about in relation to what they are learning. This helps teacher formulate discussion since students are already identifying the topics they find important.

In My Classroom

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 22:35:42 UTC

I found the idea interesting since this strategy could be used for assessment as well as in evaluating how important students gauge the material. This idea of students telling the teacher what they think is 'worth' it is powerful. Even if students write things like "none of this is important", teachers can learn from responses like this.

Additionally, since this strategy is flexible, the question does not have to be a matter of 'worth'. Teachers can ask why the information they learned is 'valuable' or 'relevant'.

In this resource, the students were keeping composition books filled with sticky notes with their written thoughts to reflect on chapters.

In My Classroom

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 22:48:32 UTC

This resource from We Are Teacher aligned with how I imagined my classroom discussion to be organized. With some tweaking, like in providing students with a smaller question bank to get them used to this style of discussion, and time to think/write their answers, I could see this being how I use the Fishbowl strategy in my classroom!

Morphemic Analysis Routine and Morphology

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 23:05:04 UTC

In learning vocabulary, instruction should be explicit and there must be multiple opportunities to practice. This was something we reviewed in class.

The resource I selected included the Frayer model and content mapping, ideas that were central to some of the strategies outlined in our Literacy Strategies Notebook. Additionally the resource specified Morphemic Analysis Routine, which uses morphology. Morphology is not central to any of the strategies outlined in our Literacy Strategies Notebook.

In My Classroom

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 23:16:23 UTC

I found this idea on the Keys to Literacy website which is ran by Joan Sedita.

I absolutely love the idea of incorporating this into my classroom. The visual aide would help students in exploring the 'insides' of vocabulary words. This little project accompanied with a worksheet prompting students to define the root/prefixes/suffixes would help students see the morphological make-up (the smallest meaningful unit of sound).

I acknowledge that this idea may be a bit too simplistic outside of maybe a 6th grade class, but I feel that students in high grades need to take time to be creative. I learned roots/prefixes/suffixes in the 9th grade - so I do not think this would be specific to an elementary class either.

A Resource for Teachers on Teaching Morphology for Literacy

carrieta6 — 2023-12-13 23:31:00 UTC

One of the ideas form this resource that I thought was interesting was that they encouraged teachers to read aloud. I have not seen or heard of any secondary teachers reading text aloud to their students (they do provide audiobooks now, but is that really the same thing?), however, I have heard from you and one of my other course professors that this strategy would be helpful for students.

Additional Resource

carrieta6 — 2023-12-14 13:59:12 UTC

This resource was compiled by Natalie Regier, a teacher of 20 years. Over their career, Regier took on many different roles, but now wants to help teachers in developing their own classrooms. This specific resource was published in 2018 for Oklahoma CareerTech.

Three Facts and a Fib

carrieta6 — 2023-12-14 14:54:52 UTC

This strategy was found in the Regier resource, and I thought this was interesting. Based on the common game students play, Two Truths and a Lie, students will be familiar with the mechanics. The strategy works just as the name intends. Students will create three facts from what they learned and then one fib. This would make a good formative or summative assessment.

Whip Around

carrieta6 — 2023-12-14 15:01:30 UTC

This strategy for formative assessment is found in the Regier resource. The name Whip Around aligns with how the activity is executed. The teacher gives students time to either write down how they feel about the assignment or facts they found relevant. Then the teacher quickly 'whips' around the room having students read one of their responses. This should help the teacher figure what students paid attention to before moving onto another activity.

In My Classroom

carrieta6 — 2023-12-14 15:03:32 UTC

In my classroom I try to check for understanding in Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down. I wait until all student have responded, and I use this anytime I'm about to switch from one slide to another OR when I'm about to move to another topic for the lesson.

Additional In My Classroom

carrieta6 — 2023-12-14 15:07:31 UTC

Ziplet is an online tool I used recently that helped with my Exit/Entrance Tickets in lesson planning. This assessment tool could be used regularly throughout class because students do not need to sign in to answer the question. The downside to this software is that you can only ask one question. I usually had parts a,b,c for students to answer, but the format is just not friendly enough for like a questionnaire. Either way, this technology tool helped me quickly check for understanding during a lesson.