This document discusses various methods for analyzing literacy learners and selecting appropriate reading texts. It describes assessing learners' reading skills through measures like reading inventories and motivation surveys. For writing, it recommends observations, conferences, portfolios and rubrics. When selecting texts, factors to consider include narrative structure, text type, readability, length and visual supports. Interactive reading approaches include activating prior knowledge, think-alouds and guided reading. Developing critical thinking involves examining texts from different perspectives, while response perspectives focus on readers' personal experiences and connections.

1. Literate Environment Analysis
Getting to Know Literacy Learners

2. Getting to Know Literacy Learners
• Reading
- Motivation to Read Profile
Interests
- Prior knowledge
- Individual interview
- Small group sharing
- Reading inventories
Running Record
Comprehension
- Elementary Reading Attitude Survey

3. Getting to Know Literacy Learners
• Writing
- Observation
- Anecdotal notes
- Conferences
- Portfolios (Laureate Education, n.d.a)
- Documentation
- Checklists
-Rubrics
- Interview (Laureate Education, n.d.b)

4. Selecting Texts
• Narrative (Tompkins, 2010)
- Folklore
Folktales, fables, mythologies, and
legends
- Fantasy
- Realistic Fiction
Story Structure
Plot - Conflict
Setting
Characters
Point of view
Theme (Tompkins, 2010)

5. Selecting Texts
• Expository (Tompkins, 2010)
- Description
- Sequence
- Comparison
- Cause and effect
- Problem and solution

6. Selecting Texts
Poetry (Tompkins, 2010)
-Assonance
Alliteration
- Consonance
- Imagery
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Repetition
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Simile

7. Selecting Texts
• New Literacies
- online read-alouds
www.storylineonline.net
- Interactive read-along stories
http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/Library
/ebooks.htm
www.tumblebooks.com
- Storybooks on the Web
www.icdlbooks.org

8. Selecting Texts
• Analyzing Text (Laureate Education, n.d.c)
- Narrative Linguistic
Words oriented
- Narrative Semiotic
Graphics or illustrations
- Informational Linguistic
Only words
- Informational Semiotic
Words and illustrations

9. Selecting Texts
• Readability
• Text length
• Text structure
- Descriptive, compare and contrast, cause
and effect, problem and solution
• Size of print
• Visuals support

10. Interactive Perspective
• Activate prior knowledge (Laureate Education,
n.d.d)
• Read-aloud
• Think-aloud
• Grand conversations
• Shared reading
• Word Study (Laureate Education, n.d.e)
• Word sort
• Guided reading

11. Critical and Response Perspectives
• Critical Perspective
- Examine the text from multiple perspectives
Bookmark technique, story mapping, symbolic mapping, connection stems,
gender switch, ethnic switch, relationship switch, and a cloze exercise (Molden, 2007).
- Evaluate
- Author’s perspective or point of view (Laureate Education, n.d.f)
- Author study
• Response Perspective
- Readers’ experiences and connections
- Journals
- Dramatic response
- Arts
- sensory responses
- Written or verbal
- Compare and contrast characters (Laureate Education, n.d.g)