Reference no: EM133310054
Assignment:
Gunning, T. G. (2020). Creating literacy instruction for all students (10th Ed.), Pearson: Hoboken, NJ. ISBN-13: 978-0- 13- 498648-7
Name two advantages and two disadvantages of using core literature.
Note the suggestions in the last paragraph on p. 485. These are good suggestions for using almost any approach to teaching reading.
- What are text sets? Why might a teacher use them?
- Name two advantages of using text sets.
- What is a thematic unit?
- Name an advantage of using thematic units.
A word of caution here: a theme is not the same as a topic. Hopefully, we have moved past the days of having a "thematic unit" based on apples or teddy bears or whatever the teacher likes. Rather, a thematic unit should be based on either:
- something that matters, a "unifying understanding or big idea", such as People interact with their environments in various ways. or Friendships come in many different forms. or What makes a family?
- certain texts (nonfiction and/or fiction books, stories, poems, magazines, etc.) that support specific standards (TEKS).
No matter what the basis of a thematic unit is, teachers should always focus first on what they want students to learn during the unit, not on the specific "activities" that will be used.
- What is the benefit of allowing students to self-select what they will read?
- Name one advantage and one disadvantage of a literature-based approach to teaching reading.
- Summarize the first paragraph on p. 490, which discusses ways to group students during a literature-based approach to teaching reading.
Be sure you include all three ways of grouping students.
Individualized Reading/Reading Workshop (p. 490-496)
- What is the reading workshop approach to teaching reading? What are its three components? (I will refer to this approach as Reading Workshop, rather than individualized reading, because that is the label I have used for many years.)
- The most widely used part of what your textbook calls preparation time is a mini-lesson. Briefly define/describe Calkins' five parts of a mini-lesson.