Role of Reading

Teacher and Basic

Principles of
Remedial
Instruction
What is a Reading
Teacher?
Is a remedial teachers role
vital in helping the remedial
reading pupils?
How could a remedial
teacher nurture & develop a
remedial pupils reading
performance & pace?
 Understanding
Student teachers will be able to
understand that effective & efficient
reading remedial instruction and
their role as an effective
reading teacher is highly
significant for their pupils
overall literacy
development.
 Students, in the long
run, will be able to
Judge an effective and efficient
strategy on remedial instruction,
apply the different principles of
reading remedial instruction,
and successfully fulfil their
task as a reading
teacher.
 What is Reading?
Reading is a subtle and complex
process that involves sensation,
perception, comprehension,
application, and integration.
 What is Reading?
Reading can be one mans deepest
pleasures. It extends his experience,
giving him a glimpse of the
worlds excitement,
pleasure, and wisdom.
ACTIVITY
TIME!!!
What is your perception about
reading?
At what age did you learn to read?
Do you love reading? Why? Why not?
How often do you read?
Do you do it for pleasure
or purely learning?
What steps
do you undergo
when you read?
As you listen to your partner, can you
sense the differences? Indifferences,
perhaps?
This is due to the learners individual
differences (e.g.
factors that affect the
learners reading
comprehension, etc.)
 Remedial Instruction:
1. Plan the process Why do I need
this?, How am I going to conduct
this?, What materials
do I need?, and others.
Take note, learners do not
progress at the same rate.
 Mastery Learning
Individualized Instruction
Continuous Progression
Non- graded School
- In spite of all these efforts
to get children to achieve at
the norm, wide variations
of in achievement are found
in every
grade level.
2. Diagnose Systematically identify the
specific causes.
Diagnosis is the art or act of recognizing
disease from its signs and symptoms. (Webster)
Educational diagnosis is the technique through
which one discovers the strength and
weaknesses of an individualfrom
an observation of symptoms
(Bruckner)
3. After the systematic diagnosis, the
teachers needs the ability to modify
instruction to meet the needs [of
learners] identified by diagnosis.

Diagnosis should be continuous

and efficient.
Role of
Reading
Teacher
Role of the Reading Teacher
Let us answer this question first

What is a Reading Teacher?

 Reading Teacher
Goldbecker (1975) emphasized the assertion that
the teacher is the critical part of the reading
program when she stated that the salient point
remains that no reading program operates
by itself. The teacher is still the
single catalyst who can determine
successor failure of a reading program,
no matter where its emphasis lies.
 Reading Teacher
Increase the reading skill of the students.
however, research continually points to one
central determinant growth and success of a
student, the teacher. It is true that the
teacher plays a vital role in the
overall success of the student
(Tonegato & Hendricks 2012)
 Reading Teacher
teachers base their classroom practices on
sound reading theory, provide instruction that
meets the specific learning needs of their
students, create an organized and
stimulating learning environment,
and regularly assess their students'
reading achievement (Expert
Panel on Early Reading in Ontario,
2003)
 Reading Teacher
Some Important Characteristics of a Good
Reading Teacher:
1. Teachers Expectations the more teachers know
about their students, the
better able they are to plan for
them.
2. Teacher Planning and Instructional
Time the
teacher must
wisely plan
time allotments
for reading.
 Reading Teacher
Some Important Characteristics of a Good
Reading Teacher:
3. Teacher as a good classroom organizer -
teachers must be able to deal or work
with large groups, small groups,
the whole class an individual
students. Considers level of students.
 Reading Teacher
The role of the reading teacher is broad.
The teacher:
observe individual children;
understand individual differences and the factors
that influence them;
build readiness for reading at various
reading levels;
identify those children who are
having reading difficulties;
combine diagnosis
and correction with every-
day reading, and;
help children gain
an appreciation of reading.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Providing Knowledge and Skills:

encourage children to use their prior knowledge;

provide direct instruction for promoting
decoding, fluency, andcomprehension;
answer children's
questions and
monitor
performance;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Providing Knowledge and Skills:

think aloud so that children become aware of how a

capable reader and writer approaches literacy
tasks;
provide opportunities for children to
engage in purposeful talk in the
classroom, recognizing that oral language
is the foundation
for the
development of reading and
writingskills;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Providing Knowledge and Skills:

recognize the role of higher-order thinking in reading

achievement;
reflect on the questions posed by
children in order to gain insight into
their thinking, identify the nature and
the extent of their prior knowledge,
and identify
gaps in
knowledge that need to be
addressed in theclassroom;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Providing Knowledge and Skills:

help children ask and answer questions

to acquire, clarify, or confirm information
and to explore
ideas.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Motivating Children to Read:

demonstrate a passion for reading;

act as model readers for their students;
know how children perceive the value
of reading, and aim to enhance the
perceived value by linking reading with
the children's own interests andgoals;
provide opportunities for discussion, teamwork,
and other social
interactions that make
reading interesting andfun;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Motivating Children to Read:

know how children perceive their own ability as readers

and support them in developing a positive self-image by
having them work with texts that are at their
current reading level and by providing them
with enough time to complete their
readingtasks;
encourage children to
apply learned reading
strategies when
they are not sure
about the text;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Motivating Children to Read:

provide a rich and varied literacy environment that

includes interesting reading material, displays,
and engaging multimedia resources,
and that reflects the cultural diversity
of the school andcommunity;
provide opportunities for children to choose their own
reading material
and develop a
sense of control over the readingprocess;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Motivating Children to Read:

integrate reading into other activities to show that it is

an essential, everyday skill with practical
value;
focus on the internal reward of personal
satisfaction and the achievement of
goals that matter to the individualchild.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Planning and Organizing:

provide large blocks of uninterrupted classroom time for

reading instruction and plenty of meaningful
practice;
maintain predictable schedules and
classroom routines so that children
know what is expected of them in
various activities
throughout
theday;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Planning and Organizing:

implement and monitor these established routines before

starting small-group instruction, to
ensure that children are able to work
independently while the teacher is
otherwiseoccupied;
use reflective practice, observation,
and a variety of
assessment
strategies to
identify each
child's learning needs and provide differentiatedinstruction;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Planning and Organizing:

know strategies and effective practices for engaging

children in large groups, small groups, and
individual instruction, and for organizing
the groups in the most appropriate ways
for the learning task;
monitor the children's time on task and
engagement in
thetask;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Planning and Organizing:

use organizational structures and classroom

management techniques that enable children
to be responsible managers of their
own learningtime.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Planning and Organizing:

know strategies and effective practices for

engaging children in large groups, small
groups, and
individual instruction, and for organizing
the groups in the most appropriate ways
for the learning task;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Observing and Assessing:

use a variety of assessment tools and strategies, such

as student self-reflection, conferences with
students, informal reading inventories,
and runningrecords;
use assessment data to determine the
current strengths and needs ofchildren;
continually adapt
their teaching
strategies to match a child'sgrowth;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Observing and Assessing:

provide meaningful feedback on the children's work,

rather than just providing a mark; celebrate
their successes; and let them know
where improvements areneeded;
pay attention to the needs of children
who are at risk of reading failure, and seek timely
intervention and
supports when
it is clear that excellent classroom
instruction will not beenough;
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Observing and Assessing:

work cooperatively with literacy experts who

provide reading intervention and
supports, in order to ensure that
help outside the classroom is
supported and reinforced by regular
instruction in
theclassroom.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Promoting Teamwork:

agree on common literacy strategies;

establish school literacy goals;
build capacity within the primary
division.
 Roles of Reading
Teacher
Making Cultural Connections:

develop their knowledge of other cultures;

have high expectations for all children;
provide a welcoming environment that
affirms allchildren;
work with family members and the
community to promote student
learning and
build bridges
ofcooperation.
Activity Time!!!
1.Of all the stated roles of a reading
teacher, think of one of the best
teachers you have ever had and can be
associated with those roles. List those
characteristic/s, reflect on yourself as a
future teacher and think what type of
reading teacher you would
want to be. Choose five (5) of
these characteristics
and explain
why.