What are good resources for teaching 5th grade reading?
misstiffany asked:
Best practices – Literature circles, centers, reading workshop, trade books w/literature units vs. basal texts…
Jerry
Best practices – Literature circles, centers, reading workshop, trade books w/literature units vs. basal texts…
Jerry
November 7th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
You have to determine what kinds of learners you’ve got in your class. visual? kinesthetic? auditory? from there, create short direct lessons, review, model the reading and comprehension strategies, buddy reading, fluency practice, vocabulary building, and reciprocal teaching has worked pretty well for me.
November 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
This is a question which experts have been answering (differently) for many, many years. It is subjective. But I’ll tell you what works for me. I’m a Reading Specialist, and the best 5th grade readers I have had were from a year of reading the best of the best trade books. (The best in children’s opinions!) One chapter a day, write a summary, next day discuss the previous chapter, and start all over again. These students, at the end of the year, tested better than other students in the school and the city who were learning with basal texts. And the best part is that they all learned to love reading. It’s a lot of work for the teacher, reading and grading the summaries. But the students learn higher level thinking skills, comprehension skills, and they also become good writers. I’ve used the same method for 2nd through 5th grades. But I had a lot of prior years learning the best ways to teach decoding skills. I stumbled around a lot. The most profound thing I learned was that most curriculums and theories make the teaching of reading difficult and mysterious. Often teaching children the pure joy of reading is left by the wayside.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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Kevin, Liverpool, England.