Four ‐N‐Framework for Responding to Readers
This article describes the Four-N-Framework for responding to readers through focused and intentional individualized dynamic formative feedback. Making ongoing informed data-driven instructional decisions and effective actionable feedback supports students' reading growth and fosters lifelong readers. This easy-to-implement process can support individual readers during real-time conferences, book clubs, or even in online synchronous and asynchronous spaces. The four components of the framework include notice, note, nurture, and nudge. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - February 28, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Katie Kelly Tags: TEACHING AND LEARNING GUIDE Source Type: research
The Impact of a Canine ‐Assisted Reading Program on Readers Needing Extra Practice
This study investigated the impact of a canine-assisted reading program on four second-grade students' reading fluency and attitudes toward reading. Oral reading fluency (ORF) was measured using ORF probes, and students' attitudes toward reading were measured with the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey. Although ORF skills did not improve significantly following the program, students' attitudes toward reading did. Implications regarding innovative strategies for reading fluency programs, including canine-assisted methods, are discussed, with emphasis on the importance of maintaining reading enjoyment among readers needing ...
Source: Reading Teacher - February 21, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Amanda N. Coffman,
Elana R. Bernstein,
Susan C. Davies,
Ann F. Justice Tags: TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ACTION Source Type: research
Knowledge to Support Early Educators and Elementary School Teachers' Engagement in Family Literacy and Family Literacy Programs
AbstractFamily literacy programs can be effective for supporting the literacy learning of both parents and children. Educators and community members can be constructive in establishing family literacy programs in their school and in the community. Having knowledge of successful family literacy programs is important for both initiating and continuing with family literacy engagement. In this article, we describe aspects of successful family literacy programs, including attention to the diversity of families. We begin with an overview of the changing definitions of literacy and common structures of family literacy programs an...
Source: Reading Teacher - February 15, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jacqueline Lynch,
Esther Prins Tags: Viewpoint Source Type: research
Using Superhero Graphic Novels to Foreground Transitions in Our Teaching with Upper Elementary and Middle ‐Grade Readers
AbstractThis column will focus on several standalone titles offered by Marvel/Graphix and DC Kids/YA and their pedagogical potential for exploring transitions with upper elementary and middle grades readers. Because children's lives are inherently in flux, they should have opportunities to read and discuss empowering stories, in a format and featuring characters they enjoy, that are attuned to the various types of transition they experience and encounter. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - February 9, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ren é M. Rodríguez‐Astacio,
David E. Low Tags: COLUMN Source Type: research
Rejecting Transactional Family –School Partnerships and Enacting More Liberatory Family Literacy Work
AbstractIn this column, I urge educators to reject transactional partnerships in their family literacy work. Drawing from my research centering Black parents' school engagement experiences, I examine two types of transactional partnerships: those that tether high-quality education to educators' perceptions of parenting, and those that tether high-quality education to parents' levels of advocacy. Ultimately, I consider four characteristics of educators enacting more liberatory family literacy work. (Source: Reading Teacher)
Source: Reading Teacher - February 8, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Jennifer L. McCarthy Foubert Tags: VIEWPOINT Source Type: research
Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers
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Source: Reading Teacher - February 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Tracey T. Flores,
Rosalyn V. Harvey ‐Torres,
Clint LaFuente,
Judith Landeros Tags: Article Source Type: research
“This Is My School Too!”: Working with Newcomer Parents to Create a Familycentric School Landscape
AbstractIn this article, the authors use narrative inquiry methodology to engage with one Prekindergarten teacher and three newcomer parents in a Western Canadian school. Interested in addressing the unique learning and social needs of these particular parents and family members, as a way of strengthening parents and families as well as enhancing educational outcomes for children, this research sought new ways to give newcomer parents who are often marginalized on school landscapes a place and a voice. The participants ’ storied experiences of their engagement in Parent University, Conversation Circles, a Parent Mentor P...
Source: Reading Teacher - February 6, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Emma Chen,
Debbie Pushor Tags: VIEWPOINT Source Type: research
