(DOWNLOAD) "Content Subjects and Reading: Are All Teachers Reading Teachers?(Issues in Education)" by Childhood Education * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Content Subjects and Reading: Are All Teachers Reading Teachers?(Issues in Education)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 187 KB
Description
Effective educators plan reading instruction by considering all of the contributing variables: the students' background knowledge, cultural heritages, oral language, strengths and needs, home influences, as well as the current educational environment and the type of text (expository, narrative ...). Each variable is powerful and could easily encompass its own article; the purpose of this article is to discuss the last variable--"the current educational environment"--and its impact on reading instruction. Having a broad spectrum of teaching experience allowed me the distinct advantage of personally viewing how the educational environment affects reading instruction. As a 1st-grade teacher, I quickly learned that the entire environment is set up around instruction in reading (and all the literacy components). Primary teachers approach their classroom environments and lesson planning with reading in mind. The reading centers, classroom library, guided group table, arrangement of students, print-rich environment, and other classroom characteristics are all intended to assist with the literacy process. While content instruction is also included, this environment presumes the integration of reading and content instruction. Professional development usually reflects this reading emphasis, with workshops concerning phonemic awareness, phonics, word walls, reading running records, effective learning centers, etc. It is easy to ascertain that reading is the mainstay of the primary grades and that all primary teachers are naturally expected to be reading teachers.