Elementary School, Professional Book, Reading
, Reading Recovery, Reading Resources, Struggling, Struggling Readers
One Child at a Time: Making The Most of Your Time with Struggling Readers, K-6
is a book that focuses on struggling readers and interventions that will help them. It is a professional resource that I could use in the library when I am able to work individually with a child that needs individual attention, or when I am working with a small group. I should also be able to use this book when working with a whole class. It would also be a good addition to the professional library that other teachers can check out.
http://www.librarything.com/work/2616657
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Competency #4 RSS
I found a website, ReadingRockets.org, that had wonderful information for parents, teachers, and librarians about struggling readers. It has a section that gives numerous tips to help us assess what is causing a child to struggle and what to do about it. The RSS feed, Reading Rockets: Sound It Out, at http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/sounditout gives examples and encouragement to parents on what to do with their child during the summer to help with reading.
Competency #3 Podcast
I used Podcast Directory at http://www.podcastdirectory.com to find a podcaast on struggling readers and how they are being helped. NPR had a segment that orignally aired on
This is the Arts Connection Archives on NPR in Central Florida. It is called Tune-In-To-Reading. It lasts about 5 minutes. Tune-In-To-Reading was orignally meant to teach music, but instead was found to help fluency because it has students use repetition to practice singing the notes, and while they are practicing their singing, they are actually reading the words over and over again. The program boasts that within 9 weeks of using the product, only 30 minutes a day, the student gains over a year's worth of learning.
The Arts Connection
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/2853382
This is the Arts Connection Archives on NPR in Central Florida. It is called Tune-In-To-Reading. It lasts about 5 minutes. Tune-In-To-Reading was orignally meant to teach music, but instead was found to help fluency because it has students use repetition to practice singing the notes, and while they are practicing their singing, they are actually reading the words over and over again. The program boasts that within 9 weeks of using the product, only 30 minutes a day, the student gains over a year's worth of learning.
The Arts Connection
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/2853382
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Competency #2
I used GoogleBlog to search for blogs that related to the library and struggling readers. I was excited to find a blog that is done by Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This blog, The School Collection: Children's Literature at the Education and Social Science Library is much broader than my topic, but it does have a posting that goes hand in hand with mine. The rest of the blog is also going to be extrememly useful tool in the Elementary library when helping struggling readers because, as just one of numerous examples, it lists numerous books under certain topics and tells about them. This will be great for getting ideas of books for struggling readers to read.
The following excerpt is from this page:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/esslchildlit/archives/2007/05/high_interest_l.html
Advocates of high interest/low vocabulary books argue that getting reluctant or struggling readers to practice reading is essential for the continued development of reading skill, and that the best way to do so is to provide them with materials that match their interests as well as their current reading level. In creating such materials careful attention must be paid to constructing a work that will not only keep the readers interests (and not appear too babyish) but also present the material in a format that will not further frustrate or confuse a struggling reader. Kenneth Schatmeyer has compiled the following list of essential characteristics of a good high interest/low vocabulary book (Schatmeyer, 2007):
- Compelling storyline and credible characters
- Topics and issues with which readers can make personal or emotional connections
- Supportive formatting that includes illustrations and appropriate text placement on the page
- Careful introduction and reinforcement of difficult vocabulary and concepts
- Straightforward plot development
- Simple sentence structures
The following excerpt is from this page:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/esslchildlit/archives/2007/05/high_interest_l.html
Advocates of high interest/low vocabulary books argue that getting reluctant or struggling readers to practice reading is essential for the continued development of reading skill, and that the best way to do so is to provide them with materials that match their interests as well as their current reading level. In creating such materials careful attention must be paid to constructing a work that will not only keep the readers interests (and not appear too babyish) but also present the material in a format that will not further frustrate or confuse a struggling reader. Kenneth Schatmeyer has compiled the following list of essential characteristics of a good high interest/low vocabulary book (Schatmeyer, 2007):
- Compelling storyline and credible characters
- Topics and issues with which readers can make personal or emotional connections
- Supportive formatting that includes illustrations and appropriate text placement on the page
- Careful introduction and reinforcement of difficult vocabulary and concepts
- Straightforward plot development
- Simple sentence structures
Friday, June 12, 2009
This blog is for identifying ways to help all struggling readers in an elementary setting. There are so many at-risk students in the school that I am working at, that it would be very helpful to research ways to help them in the library. Not only do I want to identify ways to help struggling readers from an elementary library, but I would like to identify ways to help parents with their struggling child.
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