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Dr Josh Thompson

Josh_Thompson@TAMU-Commerce.edu

903-468-8627

ELED 524 Language Arts in Grades 1 through 8  
Syllabus .rtf Schedule .rtf

Host Schedule .rtf

Requirements .rtf Resource Links

Required Texts: Gunning, Thomas G. (2008) Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students (6th ed). Pearson Education. Textbook Website: www.ablongman.com/gunning

Fillmore & Snow. (2000). What Teachers Need to Know about Language .pdf

NAEYC & IRA. (1998) Learning to read and write: Developmentally appropriate practices for young children. http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/pdf/PSREAD98.PDF

IRA (1999) Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement. http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/524/IRAadolescent.pdf

Our list of children's books:

Cartwright & Gill (?) Alaska's Three Bears

Gibbons (?) Apples

Houston (1992) My Great Aunt Arizona

Silverstein (1977) Boa Constrictor and Sick Day

Williams (2001) Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart

Wedge (2002) Bunny

Sendak (1963) Where the Wild Things Are.

Page last edited on Wednesday, January 06, 2010

12/6 Case Study Closed

ELED 524 Tutoring Project

Notes from our Last Day of Class:

Quick Phonics Screener (QPS) is an informal, individually administered diagnostic assessment. Teachers can use the results to plan students’ instructional or intervention programs in basic word reading and decoding skills. http://www.readnaturally.com/products/qps.asp

FLY Fusion™ Pentop Computer responds instantly to everything you write on special FLY Paper, captures your ideas for upload, and delivers homework help as you write—helping you master your homework faster. http://www.flyworld.com/

11/29
Literature Circles BookTalks, ShareStories, ReadAlouds, etc.

Exam III due - evaluate a literacy environment (like your classroom, for example), using any one of a number of tools (like Gunning, pp. 509 -510, for example). Write a one to two page review of the literacy environment.

All students in all appropriate settings will be given the opportunity to provide written feedback. All data submitted by students will be submitted as evidence of teaching effectiveness.

11/15 Bring an update on your case study

ELED 524 Plan of the Day 11/15

11/8 Work on Case Study
11/1

pod

Saints Alive

Kingore Quick Writes .pps

Writers ALL .pps

Writing and Literacy Development

TAKS Writing Rubric

10/25 Study
10/18

Comprehension - bring Strategy Notebooks - What did you learn from our conversation and discussion today regarding collections of comprehension strategies? What will you do NEXT with your case study?

Flaherty (2002) "Let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage". www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/

10/11

Comprehension

Comprehension Activity .pdf

Comprehension Booklet .pdf

Comprehension Definitions .pdf

Comprehension Questions .pdf

Comprehension Questions .ppt

Guided Reading .htm

INSERT (Interactive Notation System to Effective Reading and Thinking) Based on Vaughan and Estes (1986) .doc

Moats & AFT (1999) Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do .pdf

 

10/4 Vocabulary, Gunning ch 5

Essay 2 - Review your own writing for essay 1.

Lit Circle Presentation by Sheree - thank-you very much.

for Oct 18 Strategy Notebook

9/27

Phonological Awareness

ELED 524 Study Guide (9/20/2007) for Exam I (9/27/2007).  

Look at this list of topics from Gunning (2008) ch 1, and our introductory lessons on The Nature of Literacy. Get acquainted with each, in terms that you can understand. Come to class on Thursday, 9/27 ready to sift and sort through these topics with familiarity. Note: red text means valued by members of our class.

bulletNature of reading
bulletCurrent theories of the role of the reader and overall theoretical approaches to teaching reading.
bulletTen principles for teaching reading
bullet Emphasize the importance of highly effective teachers
bulletExplain the role of language, cognitive development, and experience as important factors in literacy learning.
bulletExplain the basic principles of teaching reading.
bullet Five Big Ideas
bulletFour Language Rule Systems (note - the text adds Prosody, Gunning p 2)
bullet Modes and methods of language use
bullet Ten Principles of Effective Reading Instruction
bulletHighly Effective Teaching
bullet Follow the child – let the children let you know what works for them
bullet Graphic organizers
bullet Modes and methods of authentic assessment

To think about: What is your personal theory of the way students learn to read and write? What impact do you think your beliefs will have upon the way you teach reading and writing?

9/20 ECE Comprehensive Exam Review

Degree Plans

Graduate Orientation in Commerce Oct 2

Phonics - Gunning chapter 4

Assessment - Gunning chapter 2

9/13 Read Gunning chapters 1 & 4

Bring an intro to your case study on Display Boards

9/6 Northeast Texas Masters Cohort @ Commerce COURSE ROTATION

Our Literature Circle Book Club

Codell, Esme Raji

1999

Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year

Algonquin

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Nodding, Nell

2006

Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach

Cambridge

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Rowlings, JK

1997

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Scholastic

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Poems, Songs, Nursery Rhymes

Observation - How Teachers Look at their Classrooms

ELED 524 Tutoring Project

Amazon Listmania

Leveled Reading .xls

www.LiteratureCircles.com

 

8/21

INSERT (Interactive Notation System to Effective Reading and Thinking) Based on Vaughan and Estes (1986) .doc

Dickinson & Tabor Fostering Literacy w/ Language .pdf

Dickinson Teacher-Child Conversation .pdf

 

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