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Creating Strategies: Designing Lessons For The Elementary Classroom, Elizabeth A. Morphis
Creating Strategies: Designing Lessons For The Elementary Classroom, Elizabeth A. Morphis
The Montana English Journal
The relationship between reading skills and reading strategies is important to consider as teachers design individual strategy lessons to support bigger concepts or skills that elementary students need to apply. This article highlights three reading strategy lessons that were designed and implemented by preservice teachers to support students in the elementary classroom. The reading strategies supported the skills of communication, summarizing, and reading comprehension. The lessons were effectively planned and executed because they connected to the students’ lives and interests, facilitated communication, and focused on the lesson objective.
Learning To Teach Reading Responsively Through Tutoring, Jodi Nickel, Scott Frederick Hughes
Learning To Teach Reading Responsively Through Tutoring, Jodi Nickel, Scott Frederick Hughes
Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts
This article describes a community service learning collaboration between a teacher education program and a nonprofit literacy society. Seventeen teacher candidates (TCs) tutored young readers weekly for seven months as part of their course-related field experience and completed reflective assignments analyzing their own learning and the learning of their tutees. The study demonstrates how the tutoring experience enhanced the pedagogical competence of TCs (kid-watching, assessment, instruction, responsiveness, professional conversations, and affirmation of impact). These findings align with contemporary research in literacy teacher preparation, which identifies that the combination of coursework and tutoring is effective in promoting the integration of TC …