Resources and Strategies for the Big 5:
Phonological Awareness:
Chipper Chat
Earobics
Phonics
6 syllable game-This website explains this game.
ABC arc-Neihaus
Elkonin Boxes
Fluency
What is read 7 times? Experts say that children should have 7 readings or exposures to a text for optimal comphrehension. Here are some of the ways we brainstormed providing 7 exposures:
- child read aloud
- teacher read aloud
- Buddy read
- Whisper read
- Read in a phonics phone
- Read silently
- Make the text into a cloze passage (leave out the dolch/sight words) and have the children use context clues to add them back in.
- Scramble it up and put in order
- Read to a lower grade.
- Record your own reading into powerpoint, MP3, moviemaker (narration line), etc.
- Listen to your recording! Listen to a friend's recording!
- Radio read (over intercom into your classroom only)
- Re-enact the reading with friends
- volunteer (fireman, grandmas) classroom readers
- Reader's Theatre
- videotape
Of the Big 5 is Fluency given equal weight? Fluency is the bridge between decoding and comprehension.
Where can I see a fluency rubric? See posting under fluency.
Great Leaps-Similar to Read Naturally. Students read letters, word parts, words, phrases, sentences, then paragraphs.
Taping Students - what is the best way to do this now?
- video tape students
- podcasting (mp3)
- PowerPoint
Vocabulary
Jerry Johns-Knowledge Rating Scale Activity (what is it?)
- Choose words from the story.
- Know it well, heard it or seen it, or no clue scale.
Kids choose their words as they read.
Marzano's six step vocabulary - powerpoint.
Comprehension
Kagan Structures
- Cooperative learning strategies http://www.kaganonline.com/
- Kagan website 978-1-879097-34-6
KU Strategies Handout available
Bal-a-Vis-X How is it used?
- Balance, vision, and auditory exercises.
- bal-a-vis-x.com
Overall
FAME model from Boys Town
High Noon Books-where do you get them?
Parallel Episodes