{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35940396","dateCreated":"1300226756","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"oconnors611","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/oconnors611","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1296444978\/oconnors611-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gltp502.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35940396"},"dateDigested":1531983810,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Green's Word Wall","description":"Has anyone else come across Green's Word Wall (1993) in their reserach?
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\nIt's addressed in the Eyraud et al article cited in my research notes. I really like the fact that it seems to adress a variety of different learning styles.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"35874816","dateCreated":"1300149826","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dragasatavares","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dragasatavares","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gltp502.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35874816"},"dateDigested":1531983810,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Question?","description":"Here is my one question- do you personally see any value in teaching phonics? Or are you of the mind that whole language theory is what drives literacy?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36075496","body":"I think we would do children a disservice if we didn't give them strategies for solving words phonetically. That being said, I don't think explicit phonics instruction should be the sole pathway to reading. I defer to the works cited on my research notes page as well as our core texts for both GLTP 500 and 502 when I look at phonics as one piece of content that may help students. However, my main goal as an educator is to inspire a passion for learning.I truly believe that the foundation of this goal rests on giving students a chance to discover concepts at an individual pace in a meaningful context. So much of the history of our educational culture has caused a chasm between learning and studying. We've spent generations turning schools into prisons that demand basic skills be recited and drilled so that everyone attains one goal, measured in one way. Even today, children as young as third and 4th grade tell me they hate school and can't stand homework, because to them, it's a series of pointless fill-in-blanks that simply don't unlock wonder and imagination. Yet I see that these same children have a deep passion for learning when they watch a spider making its way across the cafetaria floor or when they organize their friends in the choreagraphy of a dance that they continue to evaluate and improve on.
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\nWe can preach the rules and tools till we're blue in the face, and our students will learn it because they have no other choice. But we aren't TEACHING until students are excited about learning and see that there really isn't a separation between school and life. I can't escape my arts background, so the core of my teaching philosophy continues to be getting things into children's bodies first, then giving them a rich, meaningful piece of repertoire to explore, and then allowing their discoveries guide my presentation of the formal concept. In music, this would involve dancing in a circle and singing a song with accompanying hand motions. The kids aren't aware that the hand motions actually correspond to where the notes lie on the scale, but when we ask them sing those notes in isolation, they've already got a a really good feel for the interval because they've sung it so many times AND have a physical guide that keeps them from overshooting or falling short of the pitch. Finally, we teach them the names of the notes, and give them tools to not only read and hear them, but also to arrange the notes in their own compositions. The entire time, the kids just thought they were playing. Learning is not only fun, but successful. It's a method that works, often for more of the population than traditional "bookwork". There's no reason why academic concepts should be approached any differently. After all, we teach children, not miniture scholars.","dateCreated":"1300393017","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"oconnors611","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/oconnors611","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1296444978\/oconnors611-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"35806524","dateCreated":"1300069841","smartDate":"Mar 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dragasatavares","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dragasatavares","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gltp502.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35806524"},"dateDigested":1531983810,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"assessment","description":"I found a great phonemic assessment for kindergartners. Since we were talking about assessments, this may be really helpful.
\nhttp:\/\/www.pps.k12.or.us\/curriculum\/literacy\/video\/assessments\/k-phonemic.pdf<\/a>","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"35769620","dateCreated":"1299965200","smartDate":"Mar 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"oconnors611","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/oconnors611","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1296444978\/oconnors611-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gltp502.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35769620"},"dateDigested":1531983810,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"GOOD STRATEGIES","description":"If you come across good strategies that we can include on a handout, post them here.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35769678","body":""...as Adams (1990) pointed out, vowel sounds are more consistent in phonograms. This research suggest that vowels might be taught through phonograms, at least as part of an effective phonics program." (Stahl, Duffy-Hester, Dougherty Stahl 1998)
\nFull citation is on my research page.","dateCreated":"1299965315","smartDate":"Mar 12, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"oconnors611","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/oconnors611","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1296444978\/oconnors611-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"35806860","body":"I found a link as to how to teach phonograms. I have seen the word tile method used in a first grade classroom. http:\/\/www.all-about-spelling.com\/teach-phonograms-and-spelling-rules.html<\/a>","dateCreated":"1300070411","smartDate":"Mar 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dragasatavares","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dragasatavares","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"35657610","dateCreated":"1299781684","smartDate":"Mar 10, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"oconnors611","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/oconnors611","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1296444978\/oconnors611-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/gltp502.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35657610"},"dateDigested":1531983810,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Phonics: More than memorizing","description":"How can we present the tables on page 94 of Pinnel and Fountas' text while staying true to the authors' belief that phonics should be taught in context, rather than as a list of rules to be memorized.
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\n(Please feel free to edit this original question to better represent the intent discussed on Tuesday.)","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35806396","body":"I found a website that my daughter's kindergarten teachers have used to teach short vowel word families. http:\/\/hubbardscupboard.org\/printable_booklets.html#WordFamilyBooklets<\/a>
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\nI also found a website with consonant cluster worksheets.
\nhttp:\/\/www.firstschoolyears.com\/literacy\/word\/phonics\/clusters\/clusters.htm<\/a>
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\nAnother website offers great ideas of children's books that articulate certain sounds.
\nhttp:\/\/www.talkingchild.com\/ToysBooksartic.aspx#soundsblend<\/a>","dateCreated":"1300069608","smartDate":"Mar 13, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dragasatavares","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dragasatavares","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}