Reading Principles

Delineate your essential beliefs about the reading and the teaching of reading and list these.

I believe_______________(principle or belief about reading, about learning reading, or about the teaching of reading) _______________.

 

For each belief, provide rationale from the research you have read or that you can find, from your own experience, or/or from your expereince in tutoring.

I believe (belief from above) because___________________(rationale for belief)______________________.

 

For each belief, list the things that that belief would lead you to do in the classroom.

Because I believe (belief from above), I will do the following in my classroom:

(Freire (1970) noted that reflection should be inextricably lined with action (praxis). Without action there is unfilfilled reflection and without reflection there is only runaway activism. List the things that you will do in your classroom based on your beliefs and experience.)

Reading Principle Resources

Appleman, Deborah.  Critical Encounters in High School English:  Teaching Literary Theory  to Adolescents.  New York:  Teachers College Press, 2000.

 

Beers, Kylene.  When Students Can’t Read, What Teachers Can Do.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books, 2003.

 

Booth Olson, Carol. The Reading/Writing Connection:  Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Calssroom.  Boston:  Allyn and Bacon, 2007.

 

Braunger, Jane and Jan Patricia Lewis.  Building a Knowledge Base in Reading. Urbana Champagne, Illinois:  NCTE, 2006.

 

Schoenbach, Ruth and Cynthia Greenleaf, Christine Cziko, Lori Hurwitz.  Reading for Understanding:  A guide to Improving Readin in Middle and High School Classrooms.  San Francisco :Jossey Bass, 1999. 

 

Smith, Frank.  Understanding Reading. 6th Edition.  Mahwah, New Jersey:  Lawernce Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

 

Weaver, Constance.  Reading Process and Practice:  FromSocio-Psycholinguistics to Whole Language, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.

 

 

See your instructor's attempt at teaching beliefs, constructed in 1982.  Examples will be shown to you in class.