Oral Language Development

Spring 2018

Planning Notes

Schedule

Week One 08/29-09/05

  • In-class.
  • Class routines: Set up blog, join hypothesis, join class Stream.
  • Module One: Oral Language Development

Week Two

  • Emergent Literacy

Week Three

  • Concepts About Print

Week Four

  • Stages of Reading

Week Five

  • Phonemic Awareness

Week Six

  • Phonemic Awareness

Week Seven

  • Phonics

Week Eight

  • Phonics
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Nine

  • Phonics
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Ten

  • Running Records
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Eleven

  • Running Records
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Twelve

  • Vocabulary
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Thirteen

  • Vocabulary
  • Teaching Demo: TBD

Week Fourteen

  • Writing

    • Week Sixteen

    • Comprehension

    Final

    • Comprehnesion
    • Teaching Demo: TBD

    Module One Oral language development

    Read

    • practice piece: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40040/the-benefits-of-helping-preschoolers-understand-and-discuss-their-emotions
    • Research piece: Teacher–Child Conversation in the Preschool Classroom

    Write

    • What can teachers do to increase oral language development in pre-school

    Participate

    • Watch X video from Atlas. Evaluate the dialogue in the classroom. How did the teacher invite students to take intellectual risk.

    Module Two Emergent Literacy

    Read:

    • practice piece: http://www.readingrockets.org/article/literacy-rich-environments
    • research piece: Enhancing Phonological Awareness, Print Awareness, and Oral Language Skills in Preschool Children

    Write

    • How will you support emergent literacy in your classroom?

    Participate

    • With a 1-2 other students in class design what you think would be the perfect preschool schedule

    Module Three Concepts About Print

    Read

    • practice piece: Marie Clay
    • research piece: Toddlers, touchscreens, and tablet technologies: Learning “concepts beyond print”

    Write

    • How should we teach Concepts of Print

    Participate

    • Record a Concepts of Print Selfie

    Module Four Stages of Development

    Read

    http://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-15/chall-on-stages-of-reading-development

    Write

    • Describe a student at each stage of reading development. What can they do? what would you do as a teacher?

    Participate

    • Make a stages of reading poster, pic, or slidedeck and share with the class

    Module Five Phonemic Awareness

    Read

    • Practioner Piece: http://www.readingrockets.org/sites/default/files/Building%20the%20Foundation.pdf
    • research piece: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/748111.pdf

    Write

    • Find your five favorite example of phonemic teaching on YouTube and share the videos on your blog. Use evidence from the reading to support your choices.

    Participate.

    • Develop and share a plan to teach phonemic awareness. Remember its 7 mintues a day and not a lesson plan. What are all the fun ways you will play with sounds.

    Module Six Phonics

    Read

    https://my.vanderbilt.edu/specialeducationinduction/files/2011/09/1-Literacy-teaching-guide-phonics.pdf

    Write

    How should we teach phonics in school? Use evidence from the reading?

    Participate

    We will be meeting f2f on June 12. You will be in small groups and will live teach a phonics lesson

    Module Seven Running Records

    Read

    http://scholastic.ca/education/movingupwithliteracyplace/pdfs/grade4/runningrecords.pdf

    Write

    Watch the running record playlist on YouTube. Describe what conclusions you can draw about somebody's reading levels.

    Participate

    Complete the running records training on X site. Upload your final score sheet.

    Module Eight Vocabulary

    Read

    BeyondthePagesofaBook:InteractiveBookReadingandLanguageDevelopmentinPreschoolClassrooms https://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/Assets/pdfs/ImportantVocabularytoTeachinPreschool-091310.pdf

    Write

    How will you support vocabulary instruction in your classroom?

    Participate

    With a partner make a poster of principles and myths of vocabulary instruction from here: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/neuman.pdf

    Module Nine Writing

    Read

    https://learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/how-to-launch-your-kindergarten-writing-workshop/

    https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=eugene_pubs

    Write

    Write a reflection on the reading

    Participate

    Submit a writer's workshop minilesson

    Module Ten Comprehension

    Read:

    Duke and Pearson http://www.readingrockets.org/article/dialogic-reading-effective-way-read-preschoolers

    Write

    How should we teach comprehension n early literacy classrooms

    Participate

    Create and post a dialogical reading lesson