Literate Environment Analysis Application 7

1. Shelia Jenkins
Walden University
Professor Gene Pease
EDUC6706: The Beginning Reader, PreK-3
August 17, 2013

2. I. Getting to Know Literacy Learners
 Analysis
 Reading Inventories are assessments that provide
teachers with information about each students strengths
and weaknesses
 Inventories help teachers make instructional decisions
 Some inventories include insight into:
 Fluency
 Comprehension
 Reading levels
(Tompkins, 2010)

3. II. Selecting Texts
 Analysis
 Students need a balanced literacy program
 Teachers should be mindful of:
 the narrative, linguistic, informational, and semiotic qualities
of text
 Readability of text
 Length of text
 Size of print
 Visual support
(Laureate, 2010)

4. III. Literacy Lesson: Interactive
Perspective
 Analysis
 Students use a variety of comprehension strategies to
become better readers and writers
 Cognitive Strategies- thinking
 Metacognitive Strategies- reflecting or thinking about
thinking
 Reading strategies build upon one another
 Teacher needs to set a purpose and have high
expectations
(Tompkins, 2010)

5. IV. Literacy Lesson: Critical and
Response Perspectives
 Analysis
 Teachers should model how to think critically about
texts and how to respond to them
 Teachers often skim the surface of the subject material
 Thinking critically and responding will allow students to
develop their own perspective on important issues

6. V. Feedback from Parents
 Analysis
 Parents learned the difference between cognitive and
metacognative
 Parents think it is necessary to provide students with texts
they are interested in and relate those interests to other topics
 Teachers can support students by providing them
opportunities to express themselves
 Parents can support students by helping them make
connections to texts, asking questions, and developing a
dialogue about the different texts
 Parents can also help by making sure students are reading a
wide range of books on the students level

7. References
Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2010). Analyzing and
Selecting Text. [Video webcast]. In Walden University: The
Beginning Reader, PreK-3 . Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?ta
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Tompkins, G. E. (2010). Literacy for the 21st century: A
balanced approach (5th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.