Douglas+Millers+Work+page

  Here is my review of a website that I evealuated for content of Martian Luther King. I found this web site to be a refreshing in-depth historically accurate story of his accomplishments. I evaluated the biography web site on Martin Luther King Jr. I found it to be well designed and laid out. I like the way that the web site had a Synopsis that discussed the different phases of his life. This web site highlighted events in Dr. King’s life that are worth knowing about. The web site is aesthetically pleasing with lots of clickable links. One such link allows you to select next to see more famous quotes. I think the website is credible because of the original pictures on the web site. The web site does a great job of allowing you to browse pictures of his life.

http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086

=My internship School is Hollister Elementary in Halifax County North Carolina. (go bear cubs!) = = I taught computer applications I and II at the high school level. I have been the maintenance and transportation director at Roanoke Rapids Graded School district since 2000. I participate in an eclectic array of activities, a few of them are hunting, fishing, skiing, tennis, mountain biking, building electric cars, coin collecting etc. =

=My take away is that oral fluency seems to matter most. Its better to have the students practice reading silently instead of each kid reading a paragraph because you decrease the amount of time students spend on the text and thats what you are really after. New literacy consist of text emails social media etc... =

=Big ideas- maybe we need to rethink reading 3-d that time on assessment should really be spent teaching reading. Questions: How do I motivate teachers to really understand reading? Picking up from last week. I remember the 7C's Oral fluency is the key..... wow ... Its only been a few days and I am having trouble remembering much more. So here are some notes from that day.= What are the Big “5”? Became popular with printing of the book, National Reading Panel. Can get digital copy free on the web (dept of ed.gov?) Did not include writing.

There is a danger when you isolate the 5 when teaching they don’t see how they work together, which they do. Writing is excluded.
 * MYTH: If you cover the Big 5, you’ve taught a balanced literacy program.
 * Professors BIAS: There is one thing that really matters for students: Instructional reading level. This matters more than the class they sit in. You HAVE to meet them at their level and move them closer to their grade level material.
 * Reading strategies are not absent of content, (and don’t always work across content areas). He says content does matter. They need to practice reading at the level they are reading at.
 * MYTH: K-2 they learn to read and 3-5 read to learn. This is just a myth.
 * The power of the teacher is greater than the power of method/curriculum. A good teacher is way better than a program.
 * The pros and cons of technology: technology needs to add value in a way you can’t add with paper and pencil.

The big 5

1 + 2. Word Recognition: Phonemic Awareness plus Phonics: Fluency Vocabulary Text Comprehension

Running record of reading. Best way to determine what to do next. Qualitative inventory Level passages-

Running 3-d computer does the work for you. But oral reading fluency is the best predictor of success.

Reading 3d is the dibbles assessment in electronic version. It evaluates oral reading fluency