Proficient Reader ResearchLindsey M. CunninghamEE 526University of West Alabama

ICE BREAKER:MAROONED

Are We Collaborating?

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“The ultimate beneficiaries of education research must be children, not the researchers themselves. Enlightened educators look to education research for well-founded evidence to help them do a better job with the children they serve” (Slavin, 2004).

Research-Based Best Practices

Reading ability can be defined as the efficiency to draw meaning from the printed page and interpret this information appropriately.

How Can We Define Reading Ability?

What do we know about Reading Proficiency?

Proficient Readers use the following strategies:

1. Inferring 2. Questioning3. Picturing4. Recalling prior

knowledge5. Synthesizing6. Flexing

*We give them many chances to interpret material where they must create an answer by considering the clues or evidence provided.

*We lead them through the thought process.

*We ask them to practice with pictures, reading passages, and numbers.

Inferring: How do we teach our students to find

what is missing?

*We introduce them to question types.

*We give them practice using each question type.

*We confront them with challenges that require question combinations.

*We surprise them with challenges they have never seen before.

Questioning:How do we teach our students to be successful

questioners?

Questioning: continued*We make wonder and surprise a daily event.

*We teach them persistence, resourcefulness, and inventiveness.

*We give them practice mapping out questions before they actually gather information or read passages.

*We give them practice describing images.

*We read stories with vivid description aloud and ask students to picture what they have heard.

*We show students how to map out their own ideas and searches.

*We ask students to convert passages by other writers into mind maps.

*We show students how to view long articles as clusters of ideas.

Picturing:How do we teach our students to make powerful

use of their mind’s eye?

*Beading

*Puzzling

*Cooking

*Fabricating or Manufacturing

*Inventing

*Weaving

Synthesizing:How do we teach our students to mix, match, combine, and

weave ideas into something new?

We can also teach our students strategies for synthesizing by using the word SCAMPER!

S=substituteC=combineA=adjustM=modify or magnifyP=put to other usesE=erase or eliminateR=reverse

Synthesizing—continued

*We teach our students that frustration is a natural and common phase in the creative process.

*We give our students perplexing predicaments and dilemmas as well as puzzles and mysteries instead of restricting them to one-sided problems.

*We make sure students understand the value of thinking!

Flexing:How do we teach our students to try lots of different strategies

and approaches when facing a thinking challenge?

*Make reading for meaning a priority.

*Make time, daily, for these kinds of reading challenges.

*Present challenges in oral and written format.

*Time management

How do we make these challenges enjoyable on a daily basis?

References

(2001) Read Strong: Nurturing Love of Literacy. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://myweb.stedwards.edu/mikekb/ReadStrong/images/motivation.jpg&imgrefurl=http://myweb.stedwards.edu/mikekb/ReadStrong/nutureloveparents.html

Allington, Richard L. (2011). What Really Matter For Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs. University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Allyn and Bacon Publishers

Armbruster, B.B., Lehr, F., Osborn. (2001) Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read. Retrieved from http://www.mifl.gov Glaeser, Patricia. (2012). Ice Breaker Activities for Teacher Professional Development. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/info_8254687_ice-activities-teacher-professional-development.html

Harvey, Stephanie. (2004). Powerful Questioning, Good Intelligence, and Right Thinking,. Retrieved from http://questioning.org/tests/beating.html

Miller, D. (2002). Reading with meaning: Teaching comprehension in the primary grades. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers