L2 Reading
by Courtney Woods
1. Culture and Prior Knowledge
1.1. learn about culture
1.2. provide opportunities for reflection of understanding as relates to L1 and prior knowledge
1.3. assume nothing is known
2. Assessments
2.1. ongoing, completed at regular intervals
2.2. fair
2.3. portfolio vs. performance
3. Learning Enviornment
3.1. welcoming and repectful
3.2. everyone learns from one another
3.3. individulaized and personalized
3.4. Individualized
3.4.1. determine where student is and where they are going
3.4.2. provide opportunities to challenge each student to expand the student's knowledge
3.4.3. Self-Reflection
3.4.3.1. rubrics to determine how student feels they are doing toward concept
3.4.3.2. opportunity to be prescriptive and provide honest and helpful feedback for student growth
4. Vocabulary
4.1. concrete and pictorial
4.2. engaging and fun activities
4.3. use cognates from L1 to support L2
4.4. explicitly teach word meanings within context
5. Fluency
5.1. speed and accuracy
5.2. improves comprehension
5.3. increases motivation
6. Alphabetic Principle
6.1. Phonemic Awareness
6.1.1. manipulate sounds within words
6.1.2. activity rich
6.1.3. patterns, rhymes
6.2. Letter-Sound Correspondence
6.2.1. manipulate words by changing graphemes
6.2.2. sounds are represented by letters, letters together form words
7. Comprehension
7.1. Strategies
7.1.1. Think-Pair Share
7.1.2. Reciprocal Teaching
7.1.2.1. ask questions
7.1.2.2. clarify word meanings
7.1.2.3. summarize
7.1.2.4. predict
7.1.3. Connect to prior knowledge
7.1.4. Predict