EDUC 461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literature Circle, Guided Reading, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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How to become an effective teacher of reading: understand how students learn. Mini lessons, repeated readings, worksheets: lead to teacher centered practices students sit and listen while teacher stands at front and talks. Schema theory, engagement theory: the teacher sits among you, students generate topics for learning, experiments. Cognitive/info processing: views reading/writing as meaning making processes. Guided reading, interactive writing: support students" use of the curing system: familiar words, cognates, and punctuation. First use phonological system if you don"t know a word, then they use the syntactic structure, then they use semantic cueing system. You see a picture of a guy who has a kid but starts with p and you have to figure it that he is referred to as. Students and teachers work together to create a community. Responsibility: students are responsible for learning behavior and contributions. Opportunities: read texts and write for real audiences. Engagement: involved in the topics they learn about.
