Five Big Ideas of Reading Instruction

Phonemic Awareness

  • Enhancing the Core: Phonological Awareness
  • S & I Breakout Session: Phonemic Awareness
  • Handout: Phonological Awareness Definitions

Phonics

  • Enhancing the Core: Alphabetic Principle
  • S & I Breakout Session: Phonics
  • Advanced Phonics & Decoding - Perfecting Our Craft and Planning for the Future: Grades K/1 (Jill Jackson)
  • Advanced Phonics & Decoding - Perfecting Our Craft and Planning for the Future: Grades 2/3 (Jill Jackson)

Fluency

  • Enhancing the Core: Fluency presentation
  • S & I Breakout Session: Fluency presentation
  • Automaticity and Fluency With the Code: Planning for Instruction presentation
     • Application Activity: Assessing AP with NWF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Assessing Fluency with Connected Text with ORF Case Scenarios
     • Application Activity: Using Your Data to Plan Automaticity and Fluency Instruction
     • Application Activity: Identifying SBRR in Practice M
  • Reading Fluency presentation (Marcy Stein)
     • Fluency Handouts
  • Fluency Module
     • Fluency Module presentation
     • Nonsense Word Fluency Performance Grid
     • One-Minute Letter/Sound Dash
     • No Peeps activity
     • 5 x 5 Dash Directions
     • 5 x 5 Sample
     • Rapid Reading Chart: Sounds
     • Rapid Reading Chart: Words
     • Whole Class Fluency Practice activity

Vocabulary

  • Enhancing the Core: Vocabulary and Comprehension (K/1)
  • Enhancing the Core: Vocabulary (2/3)
  • S & I Breakout Session: Vocabulary
  • Vocabulary Building and Oral Language Instruction: Helping English Language Learners and Students with Language Disabilities Learn to Read and Read to Learn (Lupina Vela)
     • Vocabulary Research handouts
  • Dynamic Instruction in the Elementary School (Anita Archer)
     • Vocabulary Logs and Practice Activities

Train the Trainer Sessions in Vocabulary

Vocabulary Session
  • Vocabulary Selection and Instruction Training Notes for Coaches
  • Planning for Vocabulary Instruction handout
  • Practicing Vocabulary Instruction handout
  • Directions for Using Videos in Grade Level Team Meetings
    • Video Handout: Kindergarten Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
    • Video Handout: Grade 2 Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
  • Instructional Strategies for Practicing Vocabulary Words
  • Instructional Strategies for Teaching Critical, Unknown Vocabulary Words
  • Word Diagrams handout
  • Four Square Vocabulary handout

 Vocabulary and Comprehension: Read Alouds and Story Structure
  • Vocabulary and Comprehension: Read Alouds and Story Structure
     • Vocabulary and Comprehension handouts

 Vocabulary and Comprehension Module
  • Asking Appropriate Questions During Passage Reading presentation
    • Scaffolding Comprehension & Question Generation
    • Questions handout

Comprehension

  • Enhancing the Core: Vocabulary and Comprehension Instruction (K/1)
  • Enhancing the Core: Comprehension (2/3)
  • S & I Breakout Session: Comprehension

Comprehension Session with Anita Archer

  • Comprehension Strategy Instruction: What Should Instruction Look Like?
  • Reading Comprehension in the Elementary Grades: Before Passage Reading Practices
  • Reading Comprehension in the Elementary Grades: During Passage Reading Practices
  • Reading Comprehension in the Elementary Grades: After Passage Reading Practices
  • Scaffolding Reading Comprehension in the Elementary School

Train the Trainer Sessions in Comprehension

  • Vocabulary and Comprehension: Read Alouds and Story Structure
        • Vocabulary and Comprehension Handouts

 Vocabulary and Comprehension Module
  • Asking Appropriate Questions During Passage Reading presentation
    • Scaffolding Comprehension & Question Generation
    • Questions handout

 The Five Big Ideas of Reading Instruction (as seen in...)

 • Houghton Mifflin
  • Lectura
  • Open Court
  • Reading Mastery Plus
  • Scott Foresman Reading Street