SESSION ONE

Date: 14^th January 20121. Thursday.

Topics covered

Ø  Introduction to Term Plan.

Ø  Instruction for the first session.

Ø  Chunking sentences and cueing system.

Ø  Components of Literacy Development.

Ø  Decoding Strategies.

Ø  Tompkins’ Literacy for the 21st Century.

Ø  What is Fluency.

 

Lesson Learned

Madam tutor took us through module term plan and made us aware of mode of assessment, aims and objectives of the module, discuss how to maintain Learning Logs. Then, madam tutor presented us on what is reading? Why teach reading? We discussed and shared the main motive behind life-long reading. Then we learned about 'Reading Fluency' and how to improve children's fluency in reading. After I went through the components of fluency (Accuracy, Reading speed and Prosody) in the ppt. slides uploaded in the VLE. I learned the real meaning of chunking in reading and the four reading cueing system. I also learned components of Literacy development and decoding strategy chart.

Lesson Analysis/Reflection

Reading is central key for the learners to improve in their learning, without knowing the strategies of reading, no one can learn or make changes in his/her life. For example we can adapt Chunking sentences reading with poor readers till they get along with others. So just we need to focus on students’ chunking words to make meaningful sentences following the steps of chunking for fluency and comprehension in reading.