Heather Owen : Reading and Language Arts Methods Notes

Post 7: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 6: Developing Fluent Readers and Writers Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts: Fluency is the ability to read and write without effort and with efficiency. Becoming Fluent readers and writers is a developmental stage for literacy. Tompkins,…

Post 6: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 5: Cracking the Alphabetic Code Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts: English is an alphabetic language, and children figure out how this language works as they learn about phonemes, graphemes, and graphonemic relationships. By third grade, most…

Post 5: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 4: The Youngest Readers and Writers Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts: Some examples of literacy centers: Nurturing Children’s Oral Language Development Some great books to use to develop oral language: Some activities that can be used…

Post 4: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 3: Assessing Literacy Development Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts Tompkins, 2017, pg. 84 Here are some examples of Diagnostic Assessments.. (Tompkins, 2017 pg. 87) Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced…

Post 3: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 2: The Reading and Writing Process Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts (Tompkins, 2017, pg. 44) (Tompkins, 2017, pg. 49) (Tompkins, 2017, pg. 50) (Tompkins, 2017, pg. 53) Classroom Application:             In my future classroom I think…

Post 2: Heather Owen, EngEd 270, Chapter 1 (Part B): Becoming an Effective Literacy Teacher Vocabulary: Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017). Literacy for the 21st Century: A balanced approach. Pearson. Key Concepts (Tompkins, G. E., 2017, pg. 21) (Tompkins, G. E., 2017, pg. 22) (Tompkins, G. E., 2017, pg. 27) Source: Tompkins, G. E. (2017).…