literate environment analysis EDUC 6706: The Beginning Reader, PreK–3

1. LITERATE
ENVIRONMENT
ANALYSIS
Tracy Day
First Grade Teacher
Walden University
October 15, 2014

2. Getting to Know Literacy Learners
• Cognitive
• Reading inventories
• Find each child’s instructional reading level
• Evaluate accuracy, self correction rate, comprehension, and fluency
• In Reading Inventories, Dr. Peter Afflerbach mentions the
importance of using reading inventories to guide instruction
(Laureate Education Inc., 2010)
• Afflerbach suggests that teachers note miscues and evaluate
whether or not students are reading for meaning (Laureate
Education Inc., 2010)

3. Getting to Know Literacy Learners
• Non-cognitive
• Interest inventory
• Select texts of interest in order to motivate students/reach all learners
• Consider background knowledge/experiences
• Select texts that relate to child’s own life/experiences
In Getting to Know Students, Dr. Janice Almasi mentions that
educators must find out about the whole child, including their
interests, motivations and background knowledge (Laureate
Education Inc., 2010)

4. Selecting Texts
• Informational/semiotic text
• Include more non-fiction text to prepare students for upper grades
and the adulthood
• Incorporate more texts with graphs, charts, and icons
• Avoid 4th grade slump
• According to Susan Neuman in Informational Text in the Early Years,
early childhood educators must expose students to more expository text
so they know how to read and understand it. Otherwise, students will
struggle when making the switch from learning to read to reading to
learn (Laureate Education Inc., 2010)
• Neuman suggests teaching reading for the purpose of learning
(Laureate Education Inc., 2010)

5. Interactive Perspective
• Metacognition
• Teach students how to use appropriate reading strategies and self
regulate while reading
• In Interactive Perspective: Strategic Processing, Dr. Janet Almasi
explains metacognition as being aware of how to attack a text and
knowing which strategies to use while solving unknown words
(Laureate Education Inc., 2010)

6. Critical Perspective
• Critical Thinking
• Author’s purpose
• Fiction vs Nonfiction
• In Critical Perspective, Dr. Janice Almasi encourages educators to
teach students how to examine the believability/credibility of a text
as well as the author’s purpose/perspective (Laureate Education
Inc., 2010)

7. Response Perspective
• Meaningful responses
• Include written responses
• In Response Perspective-Reading-Writing Connection, Dr. Richard
Vacca mentions that reading and writing reinforce each other
(Laureate Education Inc., 2010)
• Vacca also mentions that writing helps you construct knowledge
and build connections (Laureate Education Inc., 2010)

8. References
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Critical perspective. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Getting to know students. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Informational text in the early years. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Interactive perspective: strategic processing. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Reading inventories. Retrieved from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Walden University). (2010). Response perspective-reading-writing connection. Retrieved
from
https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%
2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_5573106_1%26url%3D