A Vision For the Future: Literacy Learning Resources for March and April

 

A Vision For the Future: Literacy Learning Resources for March and April

During March and April focus on Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension Videos and Lessons, Set 1


Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Provide students with a graphic organizer



Research

Once students reach grade 4 the focus shifts from learning to read, to reading to learn (Hall-Kenyon and Black).  There is a further shift from teaching narrative texts to using expository and informational texts, of which students are much less familiar. A student who can read fiction and narrative texts, can not necessarily read expository texts, and as a result, students require support and direct instruction with organizing information in informational texts.

Reading Comprehension Videos and Lessons, Set 2

Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Use the IPad Memo App to rehearse notes before writing them down. 




Research

A study focusing on the use of tablet apps for science learning found that the use of the voice recording feature on Ipads helped students to “listen back to their statement, modify their thinking, and repeat the process until they were satisfied with their answer (Paek & Fulton).”  Ultimately, student’s descriptions and work output increased with the help of the voice recording app (Paek & Fulton).


Reading Comprehension Videos and Lessons, Set 3

Adaptations and Assistive Technology

Assign students different passages based on reading level
Allow students to work in pairs
If relevant, provide a digital graphic organizer or students who struggle with written content.  


Research

Summarizing and paraphrasing skills are connected, and in fact, “paraphrasing is often considered the same as summarizing (Kletzien, p.73).”  However, there is a key difference between the two skills, where summarizing requires that students identify important ideas and reduce the length of the text, paraphrasing does not (Kletzien, p. 73).  The only requirement in paraphrasing is that students retell the text in their own words.   According to Sharon Kletzien in Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy, “students must engage the content [of what they are reading] when paraphrasing.”  Paraphrasing and summarizing are methods of self monitoring when reading


Reading Comprehension Videos and Lessons, Set 4

Adaptations and Assistive Technology
*See Adaptation and Assistive Technology for Set 4

Research

*See research for Set 3

Reading Comprehension Videos and Lessons, Set 4

Lesson-Four Corners Opinions


Video-Four Corners Opinions




Adaptations and Assistive Technology
Ensure that chosen topics are relevant to students.  
Discuss the thinking prompts prior to the activity
Pre-teach how to support opinions and use a graphic organizer to help students organize their thinking.

Research

In From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms: a review and evaluation of approaches for developing pupils’ thinking, Carol McGuinness states that “several large scale classroom evaluation studies have successfully linked teaching thinking methodologies with learning outcomes both in the short term and the longer term (p.1).”  Moreover, the Four Corners lesson is flexible in that it can be used across curriculum.

Works Cited

Hall-Kenyon, K. M. & Black, S. (2010). Learning From Expository Texts. Topics in Language Disorders,  30 (4), 339-349. doi: 10.1097/TLD.0b013e3181ff21ea.

Kletzien, Sharon B. “Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy.” The Reading Teacher, 

vol. 63, no. 1, 2009, pp. 73–77. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347653. Accessed 21 

Jun. 2022.

Oise.utoronto.ca. 2022. BALANCEDLITERACYDIET :: Balanced Literacy Diet. [online] 

Available at: <https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Home/index.html> [Accessed 30 May 2022].

Mcguinness, Carol. (1999). From Thinking Skills to Thinking Classrooms: A review and evaluation of 

approaches for developing pupils' thinking. 10.13140/RG.2.1.4000.1129.

Pullen, Matthew. Ipad Tips: Getting Started With Voice Memos (Ipados 14). 2020, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwW_5gAoEg8. Accessed 22 June 2022.

Seungoh Paek & Lori A. Fulton (2016) Elementary Students Using a Tablet-Based 

Note-Taking Application in the Science Classroom, Journal of Digital 

Learning in Teacher Education, 32:4, 140-149, DOI: 

10.1080/21532974.2016.1206491




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