This is an updated version of the earlier presentation.

1. Keith Pruitt, Ed.S
Words of Wisdom Educational
Consulting
www.woweducationalconsulting.com

2.  You have one minute to make as many words
as possible from the following word.
Collaboration

3. All of You Are Getting A New
Pair of Shoes!!!!!
But I only have size 12s

4. One of the hidden dangers of 21st
Century Standards is the mandate
of putting students in rigorous
text.
Text complexity works only when
there are multiple scaffolds in
place to enable students access to
its message.

5. Without
scaffolding, it is
merely
throwing
students in
books they
cannot read.
And isn’t that
what we have
done for the
past 100 years?

6. Two boys look up at a mountain. One
says I can’t. The other says I will.
Keith Pruitt- Why I Didn’t Drop Out

7. What Three Scaffolds Can I Use
in the Classroom for those
students who cannot read
complex text?
1. Lay the foundation!
2. Hearing Text!
3. Read, Read, Read

8. One Would
Never Dream
of Building a
House Without
First Laying the
Foundation
Lay The Foundation

9. Lesson Framework
• Phonemic Awareness
• Sound/Symbol
Relationships
• Blending Sounds
• Spelling Words
• Sight Words
• Decodable Text

11. The New Dynamic of Phonics Instruction
• Phonological Awareness should come
early
• Lessons Should be Short
• Auditory Experience is brief
• Tactile experience is paramount to the
instruction
• Connection should be made to print
quickly

12. C A T
-- A T
-- A T
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P R T B M K D

13. Programs that use successful
pedagogy
• Spire (EPS)
• Wilson
• Words their Way (Pearson)
• Fountas and Pinnell Phonics
(Heinemann)
• Elements of Reading Phonics
(HMH)

14. Students Need To Hear Text

15. By itself, auditory experiences only
met the needs of about 10% of the
students in your room.
70% of students are visual learners.
But when you combine the print
graphonic with the auditory—you
are working with all the
effectiveness of both.

16. Ways Students Can Hear Text
1. Teacher recorded text using products like
2. Using on-line tools like
http://www.benchmarkuniverse.com/
3. Have students read to each other

18. Read!
Read!
Read!

19. The Greatest Condition to Guarantee
Student Success………
Lots and Lots of Practice
Outliers, study by
Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
of conditions to lead to
extraordinary success the
unifying factor between
piano players, NBA
players, programmers, etc.
was
HOURS OF PRACTICE
10,000 hours of Practice

20. How much time will the
average student
themselves spend reading
in the classroom in one
year?

21. That means the average child in an
American school will spend less time
engaged in reading in a year than the
average High School football team will
spend practicing in one week!

22. Some Realities About Independent
Reading
1.Students Need Choice!
2.Students Need to Read
Lots of Text at their
Independent Reading
Level
3.Students Need High
Interest Text

23. Just 20 minutes
per day!
• Increases vocabulary by
up to 600 words/year
• Increases Comprehension

24. We want to read about
spiders, snakes, race cars
and football players!
I like to read
about rodeos
and horses.

27. The new
standards are
about
Text
Not textbooks!

28. It is hoped that in implementing these
three fundamental steps in your
program, you can have a tremendous
impact in student outcomes.
Remember,
We Teach Students!

29. Thank You
Keith Pruitt
Words of Wisdom
Educational
Consulting
www.woweducationalconsulting.com