Course Description:

This course discusses the reading process and the factors that influence its development, the role of assessment to inform and adapt literacy instruction, the evaluation and use of formal and informal assessment tools for individual learners and groups of students, and the interpretation and communication of assessment results. A 30-hour practicum is required.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Middle School Literacy Class

I am living in the world of assessing and teaching older readers. Chapter 8 in the Gillet has hooked me from the beginning and has brought great framework and examples for the best practices in the teaching of older students.

I also can’t help but wonder about this lack of time spent in middle schools on comprehension strategies and reading attack skills. My school has started a literacy program this year that I believe in and am a big part of. I have noticed that content area teachers are frustrated, scared and unprepared to branch out and teach one period of literacy a day. Are these content area teachers, that have been assigned to teach literacy, already teaching the strategies in their classrooms and don’t know it? How can we help them?

Most teachers want students to love the subject they teach and all teachers know that students need to navigate text and assignments to be properly inspired and enthused.
Why wouldn’t teachers want to spend time on reading strategies and thinking skills with the population of students they are trying to reach?

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