The Five Pillars of Reading Instruction by Jessica Bunch https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4 en-us 2021-03-09 22:39:59 UTC 2021-03-10 00:48:51 UTC hello@padlet.com What Are the Five Pillars of Reading Instruction? jbunch1106 https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4/wish/1290230279 According to the Learning Landscape, phonemic awareness is the knowledge that words are made up of a combination of individual sounds. Phonics is the relationship between a specific letter and its sound, only as it relates to the written word. Fluency is the ability to read text accurately and smoothly. Text comprehension is the interaction that happens between reader and text. Vocabulary is the words that are known to a single person. 

Learning Landscape: National Reading Panel. (2005, January 3). Learning Landscape. http://www.learninglandscape.com/archives/2005/01/national_readin.html

]]> 2021-03-09 22:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4/wish/1290230279 How do the Pillars Support Reading and Writing? jbunch1106 https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4/wish/1290275896 When teaching reading and writing, a teacher will focus on phonics first.  Phonics is the letter to sound relationship.  Students need to build their phonics foundation before moving on to phonemic awareness by practicing making the letter sounds and writing the letters down.  Sounds in words are essential when reading words in text. Once students can start sounding out and pronouncing words, they may then be able to build their vocabulary.  Then the teacher will move on how to blend sounds and letters.  By sounding words and writing basic CVC words.  How large a student’s vocabulary is, will depend on how difficult a text they can read or write.  A large vocabulary is essential when teaching the foundations of reading.  Then, a student must work on their fluency.  Practice makes confidence.  The larger vocabulary a student has, the more fluent they will read and write and probably with fewer mistakes.  Comprehension is one of the most important pillars to teaching reading and writing.  A teacher will integrate comprehension by asking questions after a text to see if a student comprehended, or understood, what they read.  

]]> 2021-03-09 23:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4/wish/1290275896 Research Based Strategies jbunch1106 https://padlet.com/jbunch1106/sbsqbenmbqysy5k4/wish/1290517501 According to the Learning and Leading with Technology article, a great way to help build a student’s fluency and comprehension is to provide a classroom with an array of different books.  This gives students a choice about what they want to read, and by allowing for opportunities to collaborate with other children while reading increases reading achievement.  I think this is a great way to build comprehension because if gives students a choice and control of their own learning.
 To build vocabulary I would use semantic mapping.  Semantics are the meanings of words. I would choose a book to read aloud to my students and then I would choose words from the text and teach the students through various maps by using context clues, word grouping, and spelling strategies (Resource Links).  I already do this on a daily basis, and I love teaching words like this.  When using semantic mapping, students are always pulling on prior knowledge as the basis of figuring out the meaning of the new vocabulary word.
 To teach phonics and phonemic awareness, I would use song!  Singing is my all time favorite way to teach.  As a music teacher, I know that just by singing a phrase or a word makes it easier to memorize.  According to Iwasaki, certain features are embedded in songs that make that them memorable and enjoyable.  Sight words are also memorable.  When you teach songs with memorable vocabulary words and sounds, it is crazy how much information the students will retain! In the Reading Teacher article,  this was proven by a teacher who sang a song multiple times, at the same time, for 5 days.  By the end of the week, the students could sing back the entire song and comprehend what it meant.  Imagine what singing could do to teach any of the 5 pillars of reading!  

 

By: Royer, Regina; Richards, Patricia. Learning & Leading with Technology. Nov2008, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p29-31. 3p. 1 Diagram. , Database: Education Research Complete

Resource Links. April 2005, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p46, 1 p. 

By: Iwasaki, Becky; Rasinski, Timothy; Yildirim, Kasim; Zimmerman, Belinda S. Reading Teacher, v67 n2 p137-141 Oct 2013. 5 pp.

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