This document provides information about an optional webinar for a LIST 5373 summer course. It includes: 1) Details about joining the webinar on May 31st from 6-6:45pm CST through a link provided. 2) An overview of the planned webinar content which will include reminders about assignments, checking in on student progress, mini-lectures and commentary from the instructor, and a word of encouragement. 3) Reminders about key assignments for weeks 2-5 such as reading responses, quizzes, and handouts related to professional development and word study lesson planning that are due.

1. OPTIONALWEBINAR
WEEK 2
LIST 5373, SUMMER 16
Dr. Peggy Semingson
Tuesday, 5/31 (6:00-6:45, CST)
Join Link: Link to join the webinar: https://elearn.uta.edu/webapps/bb-
collaborate-bb_bb60/launchSession/guest?uid=38336d4f-5e9d-4017-835a-
765eef7b4712
You can join by computer/laptop or by the mobile app for “Blackboard
Collaborate”.

2. Plan for theWebinar
■ Reminders about assignments
■ Check-in for how we are doing with the Professional Development
Handout and Lesson Plan Handout
■ Chat/dialogue about key ideas for the course forWeek 1 and 2
■ A few mini-lectures throughout and commentary from Dr.
Semingson
■ A word of encouragement!
■ The webinar will be about 30 minutes (or so) in length!

3. Reminders of key assignments!
■ Reading Response & Replies every
week
■ Quizzes every week
■ Phonics Quiz-Week 3
■ Word Study Plan-Week 4
■ Professional Development
Handout-Week 5
■ *Be sure you have purchasedTK20!

4. How’s it going?
Any general
questions so
far?
How are the
readings
going?
How are
discussions
going online?

5. What are your ideas so far for the….
■ 1) Professional
Development Handout?
■ 2)Word Study Lesson
Plan?
Image: Bitmoji app

6. PD Handout: 10+ tips that connect or draw from the
research (evidence-based practice)
■ At least 10+ tips should be presented that focus on several key
areas of a targeted grade level or grade levels.
■ You should elaborate (BE SPECIFIC) on the tips so that any
teacher could take this from your presentation and put the ideas
into practice.
■ All points must have research support (cite source).You must
draw on the research-based journal articles that you read.
■ Examples are on Blackboard to explore.

7. Additional resources to learn more on
your own and demonstrations
■ Library tutorial videos are highly suggested and are in the readings for Session 1
(ProfessorAuthored readings)
■ Demonstration of doing a search with Academic Search Complete.
We recommend this as a key database to find your articles.
■ Demonstration of doing a search with E-journals.
■ Library website-find books and moreE-journalstype name of journal and open
up journal

8. Reminders about links in syllabus and in PAR 1
Watch the required online tutorials from the UTA library:
Viewing of research database tutorials is required: Watch all of these video tutorials from the
UTA Library prior to the course starting [cut and paste the links, if needed]. They are short
tutorials and will be helpful to you across courses.
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/whatpr/peerreview.htm
■ What is Peer Review?
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/peer-review/database_peer_review.htm
■ Finding Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/peer-review/peer_review.htm
■ Peer Review: How do I Know?
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/asc/asc.htm
■ Academic Search Complete
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/effectsearch/db.htm
■ Effective Searching
■ http://libraries.uta.edu/video/instruction/findingfulltext/ff.htm
■ Finding Full Text Articles

9. Quotes about beginning reading….
■ "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald
■ "Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to
them as a precious gift." — Kate DiCamillo
■ “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building
the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”
― Marilyn Jager Adams
■ The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic
awareness.-Marilyn Jager Adams
■ More on Marilyn Jager Adams: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm
■ Beginning to Read:Thinking and Learning about Print by Marilyn Jager Adams
CHAT WINDOW DIALOGUE:
1)Which of the above quotes stood out to you?
2)What are your earliest memories of learning to read and/or write?

10. Let’s look at some example handouts
■ Examples of initial plans
■ Example of a final handout (what we are working towards).
■ Consider Smore orTackk

11. What do we know about…
■ Emergent literacy and
beginning reading?
■ -connections
■ -resources
■ -experiences

12. Additional Ideas to Discuss
■ Learning to read versus Reading to Learn (Jeanne Chall)
■ Debate of “whole language” versus “phonics” and “balanced
literacy”
■ Matthew Effect (Stanovich, 1986)
■ Discussion of Chall’s stages of reading development:
http://www.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/r/readin
g_bestpractices_assessment_red_c1_L02_tr_alookrsrch.pdf

13. Recommendation:
This movie is on Netflix streaming:
The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia
http://kpjrfilms.co/the-big-picture/

15. Encouragement
■Keep going!
■Reward yourself
■Finish
assignments
early.
■Resources on
Blackboard!
■Contact Dr. S if
needed!