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Teaching Reading to English Language Learners

This document discusses strategies for teaching reading to English language learners. It covers the key components of reading: decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. For decoding, it recommends explicitly teaching consonant blends, vowel combinations, spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and sight words using activities like cloze passages and word sorting. Developing vocabulary involves teaching word roots and using flashcards, word maps, and games. Comprehension strategies include determining main ideas and details, summarizing, rereading, using prior knowledge, and analyzing point of view. The document advocates balancing top-down and bottom-up instruction using both whole texts and focused skills practice. It emphasizes starting instruction from what students already know to build their reading

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TEACHING READING TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS Laura Araujo MAACCE Conference - May 8, 2014 Carroll Community College
What do your students enjoy reading? What is your biggest struggle when teaching reading? What type of reading is the most difficult for your students? What reading strategies do your students currently use? What are your students reading on a daily basis?
What is involved in reading? Decoding Vocabulary Comprehension Fluency
Decoding What is the word? Phonemic awareness- ability to notice, think about, and work with sounds Phonics knowledge- recognize relationship between letters and sounds and ability to apply relationships to reading and writing
Strategies to Develop Decoding Skills Decoding instruction should involve explicitly teaching: • Consonant blends (bl, st, sh) • Vowel combinations (ai, oa, ea) • High frequency spelling patterns (-tion, -nce, il-, ir-) • Prefixes and suffixes • Sight words Cloze activities with sounds Circle sounds/words in context Letter tiles Dictation Sort words by sounds
What could we do with this vocabulary list? Strawberry Apple Watermelon Orange Grapefruit Grapes Banana Peach Cherry Nectarine Plum Blueberry Raspberry Pineapple Grocery store Fruit Produce Shop Slice Chop Cut
Vocabulary What does the word mean? Vocabulary is a primary indicator of reading success
Develop Vocabulary Teach Greek and Latin roots What do these prefixes/roots mean: un (unhappy) thermo (thermometer) phon (telephone) demo (democracy)
Developing Vocabulary Types of Vocabulary General Service List 1. the 2. be 3. to 4. of 5. and 6. a 7. in 8. that 9. have 10. I Academic Words List chart adult affect economy feature proportion respond perspective nevertheless cycle Technical Vocabulary ampere axle cam closed circuit piston radiator suspension timing change torque rotor
Explicitly teach and practice vocabulary by… Making flashcards and word sorts Maintaining a list of new words Use a word map Play games (BINGO and Concentration) Determine depth of understanding for vocabulary
Fluency Can I read it accurately and quickly? Affected by text complexity and reader’s familiarity of structure
Comprehension Why did I read? and Did I understand it? Purposeful and active
Developing Comprehension Learners need training, modeling, and guided practice Determine main idea, details, inferences Summarize Reread Utilize prior knowledge Elaborate discussion of text Critical analysis of text Determine author’s point of view/purpose
Using Graphic Organizers to Guide Reading Comprehension Discuss the following questions: • With what type of reading would you use this graphic organizer? • How would you modify the graphic organizer to match the level of your students? • How would this graphic organizer help students’ reading comprehension?
Where do I start??? “People learn best when learning starts with what they already know, builds on their strengths, engages them in the learning process, and enables them to accomplish something they want to accomplish” (Auerbach, 1997).
Balance top-down and bottom-up instruction Whole Story about going to the grocery store Part Identify words with ‘ch’ sound, identify sequence with a graphic organizer Whole Class discussion about going to the grocery store Part Preview vocabulary- review words students already know and introduce new words
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