Reading Toolkit

SPED 5311 Instructional Strategies for High Incidence Disabilities

Week 1 Assignment: Teaching Beginning Reading Overview: For this assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of the skills presented in Week 1 course materials. Chapter 3, “Effective Strategies for Teaching Beginning Reading” outlines three big ideas: phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, and automaticity with the code. Your assignment is to create a teaching tool (strategy) that addresses one of the big ideas. To complete your assignment, you must create the tool, implement the lesson with a student that could benefit from the instruction, and reflect on your experience. You must develop a strategy (tool), take a picture of the materials after you implement the lesson, and write a two page reflection. Your completed template must be uploaded to Blackboard. This assignment is worth a total of 100 points. Directions:

1. Identify a student with exceptionalities or a student that struggles in the area of beginning reading.

2. Using the ideas outlined in Chapter 3, or a credible resource (see Suggested Resources), select an effective teaching strategy (tool) to meet the needs of your exceptional (struggling) student. Design an interactive, hands-on learning tool that targets the area of need for your student. You may involve a group of students for this activity, but you will be targeting the needs of your identified exceptional (struggling) student. Your activity must focus on phonological awareness, alphabetic understanding, or automaticity with the code.

3. Using the template provided, design a plan to implement your strategy (tool). 4. Create the materials you will use to teach a beginning reading skill to your exceptional

(struggling) student. 5. Implement the strategy with your identified exceptional (struggling) student. Remember, you

can incorporate a group of students in this activity, but you will be targeting the needs of your identified exceptional (struggling) student.

6. Using the Reflection section of the template, write a two page reflection on the creation and implementation of the strategy (tool). Fully discuss the topics outlined in the template. Be sure to include the effect on student learning.

7. Photograph the materials you used after implementing the tool (strategy). Imbed the photograph in your template.

8. Upload your completed template to Blackboard for Week 1. Suggested Resources: Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2000). Strategies that work: Teaching comprehension to enhance

understanding. York, ME: Stenhouse Publishers. This book can be purchased for $20.00 at Amazon.com. http://www.tooloftheweek.org/teacher-tools/ http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/ http://www.readingrockets.org/article/28757

Click on “Teaching Reading”, “Classroom Strategies”, then choose a “Featured Strategy.” http://readingeggs.com/freetrial/?gclid=CMCCw7HokMACFSMV7AodcVQAEg You can sign up for a two week free trial. http://www.edhelper.com/ This website will cost $19.99 for a year subscription.