Michele NastarinWalden University

Dr. LoveJune 20, 2012

LITERATE ENVIRONMENTANALYSIS PRESENTATION

Getting to know literacy learners The teacher administered the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey. Three students at different reading levels had a positive attitude toward recreational and academic reading. The benefit of the survey was to ascertain students’ attitudes toward reading.

Three texts were selected for the three students: a narrative, informational and online text. The narrative text, Jack and the Beanstalk by Kellogg, was chosen for the beginning reader because it is repetitive. The informational text The Magic School Bus: Gets Planted by Cole was selected for the transitional reader because it provides facts about plants. Last, the online text from BookPALS A Bad Case of Stripes by Shanon was chosen for the emergent reader because this student could not read independently and listened to the read aloud story.

SELECTING TEXTS

Interactive PerspectiveThe lesson focused on teaching students to be strategic and show metacognition in areas such as word recognition and comprehension. The word recognition strategy focused on chanting and clapping instructional practice to learn sight words in the narrative text Jack and the Beanstalk by Kellogg. The comprehension strategy focused on having the students summarize the narrative text. The more opportunities children are given to practice, the more natural these strategies become.

Critical and Response Perspectives

The response activity was for students to write in their reading log about what they liked about narrative text Jack and the Beanstalk by Kellogg. The critical response activity focused on teaching students to write a simple retell to include the beginning, middle, and end of the narrative text.

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