WELCOME!

Please view the video below for announcements about the upcoming weeks.

CHECKLIST FOR OCTOBER 27

CHECKLIST FOR OCTOBER 27 

Readings: Phinney/Ward Overview Chapter (Skipp pp. 3-8 [Historical Perspectives] if you wish, and concentrate on understanding how the Continuum works.)

POST: Please make sure that you have conducted the “Practice” portion of the Day 7 Blog completed and you have responded/had a conversation with everyone in your SMALL group on D2L in your SMALL group discussion area.  I have provided some prompts for you, but these are just suggestions as to what you could take up.  I want you to have a meaningful discussion. That means taking up the serious work of how to analyze the miscues that your case study child is making as well.  Use your group members to help you think about some of the miscues your case study child is making if you wish.  

CHECKLIST FOR NOVEMBER 3 - FACE-TO-FACE DAY

CHECKLIST

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 

FACE-TO-FACE 

TOPIC: Developmental Continuum Overview & Characteristics & Instructional Strategies 

READINGS:  Phinney/Ward: Introductory sections of Print-Focused & Consolidation Phase 

DUE: Miscue CD & Write-Up 

MISCUE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES

Please view/listen to the video/ppt below.  In this video I revisit some of the guidelines for the Miscue CD & write up due November 3.   I have addressed some questions that have been posted in small groups or sent to me via an email.  However, if you are not sure how to code a miscue, and it is causing you anxiety, email me about it.  However, my tendency--if I wonder about an occasional decision you have made when I am going over your work--is to suggest an alternative view of how that miscue might be coded.  Some miscues ARE judgement calls.  You will be doing so many that one or two here or there that are miscoded will not make a significant difference in the overall picture.  If you are ambivalent about how to code a miscue, you may indicate so on your Miscue Analysis Calculation Sheet by putting a question mark in the margin next to it.  I will focus more closely on that one and let you know what I think.

A PORTRAIT OF A READER!

Please view the ppt/video below. This ppt/video leads you through the process of helping you to create a portrait of your reader by way of using your coding of a reader's miscues to summarize and generalize about the strengths, strategies and possible future growth of your reader. It is intended to help guide you with our miscue write-up due November 3. However, if you are not sure how to code a miscue or how to interpret a miscue, and it is causing you anxiety, email me about it. I also invite you to post questions/comments directly below this video. That way all can see/hear questions and the answers that I or others provide.