Integration of the Reading Components

Week 7: Integration of the Reading Components: Comprehension
Week 7: Integration of the Reading Components: Comprehension
The topic for this final week of Reading Competency 1 is the

Required Reading
Chapter 10: “Organizing for Instruction” Tompkins (2017) Literacy for the 21st Century, Seventh Edition, 328-364.

Choose 1 additional reading based on your students (i.e., elementary, middle school, high school):

Phonics Instruction for At-Risk Third Graders:
What word identification strategies can be used to support a middle school reader who struggles with decoding?

BUILDING READING PROFICIENCY AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL

Assignment
Now that you have completed each of the required Week’s readings and assignments, create an action plan in a formal (APA format) paper including how the research you have read and reflected on–Integration of the Reading Components–is now part of your understanding of intensive reading instruction by answering the following questions:
How has this course changed your thinking in regards to incorporating reading strategies into your lesson plans?
What are some of the strategies and/or reading concepts you are going to take away from this course?
What will you do differently next year in your classroom?
What have you learned that will improve your classroom practices?
Be specific with your examples/don’t forget to cite your sources.

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