Organizing for Literacy Instruction

Jill Kerper Mora
San Diego State University

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Table of Contents

Organizing for Literacy Instruction

A Theoretical Orientation to Reading Instruction:

The Phonics Approach

The Skills Approach

Whole Language Approach

Approach to Bilingual Second-Language Reading

Procedures & Strategies

Read Aloud’s Purpose

Shared Reading’s Purpose

Guided Reading’s Purpose

Independent Reading

Independent Reading’s Purpose

Author: Jill Kerper Mora
Copyright 2000

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Sources:

DeFord, D.E. (1985). Validating the construct of theoretical orientation in reading instruction. Reading Research Quarterly, 20 (3), 336-67.

Additional Resources

Click here for a slide show on principles and approaches to second-language reading and biliteracy.

Click here for a comprehensive bibliography on second-language reading and biliteracy.

Click here for a curriculum framework for biliteracy development.

Click here for a chart showing metalinguistic transfer between Spanish and English.

Click here for a sequence of phonics instruction using word families.

Click here for Dr. Mora's position paper on phonics instruction for bilingual learners.

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