Planning Effective Reading Instruction

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Requires Lopeswrite
Assessment Description
The ability to use data to inform and develop effective reading instruction is an important skill teachers must exhibit to create and deliver lessons that meet the diverse needs of students in the classroom. Another important aspect of effective planning is ensuring that lessons are based upon specific standards and measurable objectives and that research-based instructional strategies are applied to engage students and instruct them in ways where they can effectively make meaning from the text.

Allocate at least 2 hours in the field to support this field experience.

With your mentor, complete the following:

Discuss an upcoming standards-based literacy lesson that your mentor plans to teach in the classroom. Discuss the specific standards on which the lesson will be focused.
Identify a small group of 2-4 students with similar literacy skills deficits for whom you could develop a lesson based on these same literacy standards discussed above.
Review existing skills data and reading performance for the students in the small group and discuss the specific needs the students have to overcome the skills deficits.
Using the lesson plan template of your choice, develop a standards-based literacy lesson that would be appropriate for the small group. The lesson should include the standards and objectives, activities for activating prior knowledge, and research-based engagement, instructional, and assessment strategies, and activities that are appropriate for the students in the group.
When the lesson plan is complete, practice executing it with your mentor in the role of the students to ensure that you are correctly implementing each part of the lesson.
After practice teaching, debrief with your mentor about your implementation of the lesson and make adjustments to the lesson plan that the two of you believe are necessary to make it more effective.
NOTE: In the Topic 8 “Clinical Field Experience E: Providing Effective Reading Instruction” assignment you will teach the lesson with the small group of students you identified.

Use any remaining field experience hours to provide support or assistance to the class as directed by your mentor.

Submit the lesson plan you created with your mentor.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.

Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.

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