1. Session 1
Mrs. Concepcion
http://www.readingsetgo.blogspot.com/
Education Academy
Fall 2010
Reading … Set … Go!

2. Have you been paying attention?

3. Every Child Reading: An Action Plan
What will it take to ensure the reading success of every child?
 Effective new materials, tools, and strategies for teachers.
 Extensive professional development to learn to use there strategies.
 Additional staff to reduce class sizes for reading instruction and to provide tutoring for students
who fall behind.
 Changes in school organizations for more appropriate class groupings and effective use of special
education, Title I, and other supplementary resources.
 District, state, and national policies to set high standards of performance, to support effective
classroom instructions, and to improve teacher training programs.
 Parents and other community members to support intensified efforts to improve the reading ability
of all students.
 Parents and guardians to ensure that their children arrive at school ready to learn every day.
 Intensified research.

4. Reflection
 What do your teachers do well?
 What do you question?
 Where do we need to go next?

5. Learning to Read
“The mission of public schooling is to offer every child
full and equal educational opportunity, regardless of
background, education, and income of their parents. To
achieve this goal, no time is as precious or as fleeting as
the first years of formal schooling. Research consistently
shows that children who get off to a good start in reading
rarely stumble. Those who fall behind tend to stay
behind for the rest of their academic lives.”
-M.S. Burn, P. Griffin, & C.E. Snow, 1999
Starting out right: A guide to promoting children’s reading success, p.61

6. Learning to Read
Children can have problems:
 Understanding vocabulary
 Recognizing the sound structure or phonological properties of words
 Developing letter-sound knowledge
 Understanding the alphabetic principle
 Decoding words
 Relating content to background knowledge
 Reading words and text with fluency (or quickly and accurately)
 Using comprehension strategies to help them remember and understand what is
read.

7. Class Learning
Video clip: Analyzing Words – Kelly Barker
Create two cubes
Create one lesson by writing roots on one cube
and either prefixes or suffixes on the other cube

8. Home Learning
Have you been paying attention?
Write a reflection on the blog

9. Reflection to class blog
Do teachers pay attention to how students learn?
Are your teachers reaching out to you? Are your teachers
engaging you?
Do you Google? To whom were your questions addressed
BG?
Why do you think teachers don’t use the technology that
students know to create/engage/teach more effectively?
How are teachers using the new www to teach their
students? Whatever/Whenever/Wherever
How do you feel about school work?
How do you feel about your school?
How could we turn our classrooms into learning engines?

10. Reflection to class blog
Do teachers pay attention to how students learn?
Are your teachers reaching out to you? Are your teachers
engaging you?
Do you Google? To whom were your questions addressed
BG?
Why do you think teachers don’t use the technology that
students know to create/engage/teach more effectively?
How are teachers using the new www to teach their
students? Whatever/Whenever/Wherever
How do you feel about school work?
How do you feel about your school?
How could we turn our classrooms into learning engines?