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Teaching Reading in the Greek Fashion
Greek
Latin
The Hornbook
• The ABC Method• Letters of the alphabet• Memorize them forwards• Memorize them backwards• Practice reading syllables aloud• Reading aloud with the teacher
McGuffey
• Grade Levels• Teacher’s Guide• Directed to good oral reading
Horace Mann
• Review of classroom teaching• 5/8 of instruction is bad• Students look like fish
The Industrial Revolution
• Women in teaching• Beginning of disappearance of one-room
school houses• Teacher training
Edmond Burke Huey - 1906
• Silent reading• The silliness of ba, be, bi, bo• The most influential development in
reading pedagogy
Vocabulary Control
• Words in students’ spoken vocabulary• Introduce a few at a time• Repeat them often enough for students to
learn them• Teachers are changed forever!
High Frequency Vocabulary
• What’s right with them?• What’s wrong with them?
Dolch - 1936
• 220 Service Words• Textbooks – and Dolch• In use today in many classrooms
Publishers and Reading
• Soldiers – World War I• Teachers responsible for low reading
achievement• Lack of adequate training• Lack of adequate support
William S. Gray
• Directed Reading Approach (DRA)• Introduce Background• Introduce New Vocabulary• Guided Reading• Comprehension Check• Related Skills Instruction
William S. Gray
• Readers should contain real characters that beginning readers can relate to.
• Advanced teacher’s guides• Directed Reading Approach (DRA)
Directed Reading Approach (DRA)
• Introduction – Background• Introduce New Vocabulary• Guided Reading• Comprehension Check• Skills Instruction
DRA
• DRA is widely used to teach reading• Are there advantages/disadvantages?