Teaching+Literacy+in+Ohio

Teaching Literacy in Ohio
 * Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency Standard
 * Acquisition of Vocabulary Standard
 * Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
 * Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard
 * Reading Applications: Literary Text Standard
 * Writing Process Standard
 * Writing Applications Standard
 * Writing Conventions Standard
 * Research Standard
 * Communication: Oral and Visual Standard

There are ten main standards for teaching literacy in Ohio. Tobie has students look at these backwards because that way you can see how the standards move from more global to more specific. This is in line with the idea of whole to part to whole. In other words, in order to learn, we need to know the scope of what we are learning, then it can be broken down, then reassembled into a whole. When I teach music by ear, I begin not with the first notes we are going to learn but by playing the whole tune so the students can hear how long it is, how it is constructed, whether or not they like it and want to learn it, and if it has any striking characteristics. Then I teach it phrase by phrase and after that we play it together.

[Tobie, you could put your standards story here]

First standard (quote is from standards book):
 * Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition and Fluency Standard**Students in the primary grades learn to recognize and decode printed words,developing skills that are the foundations for independent reading. Theydiscover the alphabetic principle (sound-symbol match) and learn to use it infiguring out new words. They build a stock of sight words that helps them toread quickly and accurately with comprehension. By the end of third grade,they demonstrate fluent oral reading, varying their intonation and timing asappropriate for the text.

Ways to address this standard: oral reading with students, word wall, word sorts,