Organizing for Literacy Instruction

Jill Kerper Mora
San Diego State University

1/16/00


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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

Read Aloud’s Purpose

Shared Reading

Shared Reading’s Purpose

Guided Reading

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

The Ohio State University Early Literacy Learning Initiative (1984)

 

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 the position paper of the International Reading Association on reading and phonemic awareness.

Click here for the IRA's position statement on reading instruction in a child's first language.

Click here for a discussion of the whole language philosophy and research base.

Click here for an excellent article on emergent and early literacy development

Click here for links to research articles on various aspects of literacy development, including shared reading.

 

 

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