NELA S12 Literacy Workshop, Rocky Mount, NC

1. The Reading Process &
The 3 Interactive Elements Model
Carl Young
NC State University
NELA Literacy Workshop
Thursday, February 8, 2011

2. Traditional Approach to
Reading Process…
Just doesn’t work!

10. Alllington's 6 T's of Effective
Literacy Instruction
 Time - 50% of time, students "doing" reading & writing
 Texts - rich supply & variety of books provided, "appropriate complexity"; steady
diet of books students can successfully read and some to challenge as well
 Teaching - "active instruction" -- modeling and demonstration of the useful
strategies good readers employ rather than the worksheet or commercial
package approach
 Talk - fostering much more student talk, both teacher/student and
student/student; encouraging, modeling, supporting lots of purposeful talk across
the school day--problem-posing, problem-solving, talk related to curricular
topics.
 Tasks - work completed is more substantive and challenging, requires more self-
regulation than work has been commonly observed; greater use of longer, more
sustained assignments, rather than filling the day with multiple, disconnected
shorter tasks; "managed choice" for students evident in classrooms
 Testing - exemplary teachers evaluated student work and awarded grades
based more on effort and improvement rather than just achievement; teachers
truly know their students well in order to address students' literacy needs