Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h4KHcpC04608; Tue, 20 May 2003 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <194.1963cfe2.2bfbc1a2@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2322] teaching reading X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 39 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 2428 Lines: 54 This is an excerpt from the PEN weekly News Blast for May 16, 2003. The full article can be accessed at http://www.headfirstcolorado.org/adm/view_article.php?story_id=38 *INVESTING IN EXPERTISE* --Everyone, it seems, is an expert in education, particularly in the teaching of reading. If one has learned to read, evidently one knows what one needs to know about teaching reading. Conversations in every venue from restaurants to PTA meetings to state houses focus on how reading should be taught.-- I am hoping, especially, that those who carry on conversations about teaching reading to adults will become familiar with the EFF Standard and Components of Performance for the Standard Read with Understanding. The full description is listed on the NIFL Web site. Focusing the content of the Standards. This focus on purposeful application of knowledge and skills is continued in the description of the content (knowledge and skills) of the Standard. Here is the description of the Standard Read With Understanding: * Determine the reading purpose; * Select reading strategies appropriate to the purpose; * Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies; * Analyze the information and reflect on its underlying meaning; * Integrate it with prior knowledge to address reading purpose. The Standard has been framed to include the key elements of the reading process as defined in the Reading Excellence Act (REA).19 In the REA, reading is defined as "a complex system of deriving meaning from print that requires all of the following: a) the skills and knowledge to understand how phonemes, or speech sounds, are connected to print; b) the ability to decode unfamiliar words; c) the ability to read fluently; d) sufficient background information and vocabulary to foster reading comprehension; e) the development of appropriate active strategies to construct meaning from print; f ) the development and maintenance of a motivation to read" (Sec. 2252(4)). These necessary components of reading are reflected in points two and three of the EFF Standard: Select reading strategies appropriate to purpose and Monitor comprehension and adjust reading strategies. In the EFF Standard, these specific skills and abilities are explicitly wedded to the reader's "purpose." This really is brain surgery! All the Best, Meta Potts nifl 4-eff Moderator FOCUS on Literacy Glen Allen, VA.
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