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Our projects: Day Topic Presenter Presentation Doing Essential Question M Assessment Tracie Powerpoint   How to assess struggling readers M Biome Brenda   Make a biome How is climatic change affect us? M Family Literacy Cyndi   Hands on homework Does homework improve reading skills for SPED students? M Novel Study Wendy   Read Lion Witch and Wardrobe – use FAMUUS to increase comp How can FAMUUS empower thinking? M Phonics Millie   Word families How does Phonics affect learning to read? M Phonics  Tamra   Sorting – find “K” words   M Phonics – AP Trina   Picture – sound letter match How does Phonics affect learning to read? M Phonics – AP Marquitta   Picture – sound letter match How does Phonics affect learning to read? M Phonological Awareness Chris   Words their way – tutoring How does word-building (phonics & vocab) build comprehension M Pre-Writing skills Jillian   Templates for matching How does fine-motor skill dvlpmnt affect pre-writing dvlpmnt? M Publishing Writing Tracie Demo Web writing How to add depth to writing M Social action Kary   Make history – make a difference What can I do to make a difference? M TAKS – Math Coach   Tutoring, e.g. place value How do we improve TAKS scores?   M Vocabulary development Jennifer   Make a Quilt book How do we learn vocab best? Is it better to have random vocab or tied to content? T   Aishley       T Gov’t Candy     What is government? T Gov’t – read about writing the Constitution Layne   Reader’s Theater – “Shh! I’m Writing the Constitution” How does the past affect the future? T Math – Base Ten Comprhension Karen Word doc Understand and manipulate money using  “Code Words” in the Base Ten System What are the “Code Words” for the four operations? T Multicultural literature Charity   Chinese lit – write in style How are students going to understand the context of their lit? T Multi-cultural literature Abbie   Recipes and culture How do we learn about cultures around us? T Phonemic Awareness Lou   Pre-reading w/ puzzles How can we improve students’ phonemic awareness so that it leads to successful early reading. T Social Action Jana   Develop social skills How does environment at home affect success in school? T Story Grammar Matt   Author, title, main idea, plots, problems, solution How can students best understand these parts of the story? T Webquest Leah   Tour Mayflower How could things have been different? T Writing Workshop Brynane   Brynane's Resources TAKS Writing Workshop How do we improve TAKS writing comp scores? T Writing Workshop T.D.   Writing and spelling Why is writing important?

10. Tuesday, July 25 Classroom Management - Gunning 13 - Presentations (see topics above - schedule to be developed)

9. Monday, July 24 Evaluate yourself as a Speaker DIVERSITY - Gunning 12 - Presentations (see topics above - schedule to be developed)

8. Thursday, July 20 Exam III - www.ProfilerPro.com Now posted and assigned to you. - Uh-oh! Trouble with our ProfilerPro Survey server. Just do your best with what you've got - try to printout your answers before submitting. Call me - 214-663-6102.

7. Wednesday, July 19 npr.org Story People Author http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah_chpt7_p1.html http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A1JDYWYUGZ3JN/102-0099026-9338533

6. Tuesday, July 18 IRA (1999) Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement. REPAIRED LINK - really! http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/524/IRAadolescent.pdf  New Schedule: 524/524Schedule.rtf

5. Monday, July 17 INTEL Teach To The Future Complete this form for Mon, 7/17: Project Prompts.doc  Comprehension Resources from the Second Grade Texas Reading Academy: Resources/ComprehensionDefinitions.pdf Resources/ComprehensionActivity.pdf Resources/TPRI.pdf Resources/ComprehensionBooklet.pdf

4. July 13 Writing Essay due - using the tea.state.tx.us 4th Grade taks Writing Guide.pdf  (tea.state.tx.us taks booklets).  Read Gunning chapters 4 & 5 on PHONICS and VOCAB. Guest(s) is(are) coming! As is Exam II - ready or not! 5 Big ideas, Phonics, Phonemic awareness, Vocabulary, Highly effective teachers, Writing, Assessment – authentic – observation – kid-watching [you're ready - it's open-book]  Our guest speaker, Ms Carol Weberg, wants you to have her powerpoint: Literacy.ppt

3. July 12 Read Gunning chapter 3 on Emergent Literacy. Read NAEYC/IRA Position Statement on Learning to Read and Write. Language.ppt

2. July 11Whew! We be good teachers! and busy. Today's lessons on Highly Effective teachers invites us all to pause, and think, and reflect - hopefully to decide to become the Excellence we dream of. Authentic Assessment consists of observation - kid-watching. Writing assessment, using the tea.state.tx.us 4th Grade taks Writing Guide.pdf  (tea.state.tx.us taks booklets). Finally, we concluded w/ an examination of projects. You should have two (2) surveys on your ProfilerPro.com to do list.

1. July 10 Your first assignment (due Tuesday, July 11) is to read chapter 8 in the Gunning (2005) textbook, and write reflectively (about one typewritten page) about your approach to reading technical texts. Read the intro questions on page 361 for framework.

What are you reading these days? Increasing our familiarity with good literature improves our teaching. Bring a favorite book (any level) to class. I'm bringing C. S. Lewis (1955) The Magician's Nephew.

Who are you all - the students of ELED 524 Summer 2006? Whence (where ya' from) ? Blue Ridge, Bonham (2), Cedar Hill, Commerce (7), Cumby, Dallas, Denison, Greenville, Leonard, Lone Oak, Mabank, Melissa, Mesquite, Paris, Quinlan, Royse City (2), Sulphur Bluff, Sulphur Springs (3) Whither (where ya' off to)?

Required Texts: Gunning, Thomas G. (2005) Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students (5th ed). Pearson Education ISBN 0205410367 Publisher’s websites: www.ablongman.com/gunning  or - for a more direct route: http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_gunning_creating_5 Fillmore & Snow. (2000). What teachers need to know about language. REPAIRED LINK: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/Resources/FillmoreSnow2000.pdf NAEYC & IRA. (1998) Learning to read and write: Developmentally appropriate practices for young children. http://naeyc.org/about/positions/PSREAD0.asp http://naeyc.org/about/positions/pdf/PSREAD98.PDF IRA (1999) Adolescent Literacy: A Position Statement. REPAIRED LINK: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/524/IRAadolescent.pdf Additional Resources: Teacher Reading Academies http://texasreading.org/utcrla/ http://www.readingacademies.org/