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Reutzel & Cooter, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the
Difference, 7/e
Phonemic awareness
Alphabetics (to include letter knowledge
and phonics instruction)
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Reutzel & Cooter, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the
Difference, 7/e
knowledge
Phonological and phonemic awareness
Rapid automatic naming of letters, digits, etc.
Writing letters in own name
Phonological memory
Concepts about print and print conventions
Oral language use and comprehension
Visual processing
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Difference, 7/e
Assessments
Interview- informal measure of young childrens
concepts about print
Concepts About Print Test- a commercially published instrument
used to assess childrens knowledge of concepts about printed or
written language such as letter, word, sentence, directionality, text
versus picture, and punctuation
Auditory Blending Test- an informal assessment tool, requires
students to say a word after hearing its individual sounds slowly
articulated by the teacher
Phoneme Segmenting Test- students are asked to listen to and
isolate sounds in spoken words
Metalinguistic
Reutzel & Cooter, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the
Difference, 7/e
to Teach:
Functions of print
Mapping speech onto print
Technical aspects of print
Instructional
Strategies:
Environmental print
Shared reading experiences
Reutzel & Cooter, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the
Difference, 7/e
to Teach:
Awareness of spoken words
Awareness of spoken syllables
Awareness of phonemes
Instructional
Strategies:
Teaching should move from the simplest
concepts toward the more complex
Reutzel & Cooter, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the
Difference, 7/e
to teach:
Recognizing letters
Instructional
strategies:
Searching for letters
Writing letters
Pacing of letter name instruction
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Struggling Readers
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