Application 6: Lesson Plans II

Tiffani Ford

Walden University

Professor Denise Love

EDUC- 6706R-9 EDUC 6706

The Beginning Reader, PreK-3 NCATE

February 19, 2011

Getting to Know Literacy Learners, P–3 (Week 2 Application)

The Motivation to Read Profile (MRP) consists of two parts—a self reporting survey, which is administered in groups, and an individual Conversational Interview.

The survey assesses two dimensions of reading motivation:

Student readers’ self concepts and how students value reading.While the interview explores individual aspects of students’ motivation to read, such as personal interests in reading.

Learning Resources

Afflerbach, P. (2007). Understanding and using reading assessment, K–12. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

An example of the self reporting survey which is administered in groups.

An example of the Conversational Interview

II. Selecting Texts (Week 3 Application)

According to the article, “A Guide to Selecting Great Informational Books for Young Children”, I should be examining books for five main characteristics.

These five characteristics are the cover, topic or content, illustration, font size and type, and organization. (Stephens, 2008)

Janice Almasi spoke of the difficulty of a text and how it plays an important part of a child’s literacy development.

Learning Resources

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Selecting and Analyzing Text. [Webcast]. Mobile Learn Series. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Stephens, K. E. (2008). A Quick Guide to Selecting Great Informational Books for Young Children. Reading Teacher, 61(6), 488–490. Retrieved on January 23, 2011, from http://www.ldonline.org/article/A_Quick_Guide_to_Selecting_Great_Informational_Books_for_Young_Children

Two selections that I chose based on Stephen’s Five Characteristics of Selecting Great Informational Text

Selecting texts using five characteristics.

“Stop, Drop, and Roll”, written by Margery Cuyler and Arthur Howard is a great information text that teaches students proper procedure for a fire emergency.

III. Literacy Lesson: Interactive Perspective (Week 5 Application)

Students use both cognitive and metacognitive strategies to direct their thinking. (Tompkins, 2010, p. 12)

The lesson, “What are they doing?, is a fun way to get students thinking quickly. They use their thoughts to effectively communicate to others through writing.

Writing is a tool that is just as important as reading.

If you cannot read, you cannot write. To effectively master the English language, you must be able to do both.

“When students write about what they’re learning, it helps them become better writers, and teachers can use students’ writing to assess their learning.” (Armbuster, McCarthy, & Cummings, 2005, p. 300)

Learning ResourcesTompkins, G. (2010). Literacy for the 21st Century. Pearson Custom Publishing. Laureate Education Inc. Boston, MAArmbruster, R., McCarthy, C., & Cummings, D. (2005). Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press. New York, NY.

IV. Literacy Lesson: Critical and Response Perspectives (Week 6 Application)

I created a more critical and response perspective towards selecting text by picking text that pertained to social and cultural issues that my students could relate to and was dealing with everyday.

To encourage students to be life literacy readers, they must experience the power of critical and response perspective selected text. (Laureate Education, Inc., 2011)

I decided to use Dr. Seuss’s, “The Sneetches and other stories”, because of its wonderful humor and its ingenious way of teaching cultural diversity and discrimination.

This book is considered a critical and response perspective selected text. It challenges the reader to experience feelings that they may have never experienced if they had not read the text. (Laureate Education Inc., 2011)

Learning ResourcesLaureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Critical Perspective. [Webcast].Mobile Learn Series. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Response Perspective. [Webcast].Mobile Learn Series. Baltimore, MD: Author.