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 * I am currently serving at Central Elementary School in Northampton County as an intern. My background in education began with an elementary school for seven years teaching Fourth and Fifth grade students. I then became an AVID Elective Teacher and Site Coordinator for a middle school serving 6th, 7th,and 8th grade students. My areas of expertise are building relationships, playing basketball, and spending time with love ones.**


 * Wrap-Up**
 * Take Aways-The detailed descriptions of the Big 5's, Tagxedo, and xtranormal**
 * Big Ideas-The Literacy Principles-I really enjoyed the discussion of the Literacy Principles and to know that the teachers are using some of them in their instructions.**
 * Questions- I currently don't have any questions. I have enjoyed the session for today and look forward to what tomorrow will bring.**


 * Increase fluency**
 * --repeated reading of the same text**
 * --use books with dialogue and repeated lines**
 * --Reader's Theater**
 * --move students down to easier text levels**
 * --their is such a thing as too fast**


 * Day #2**


 * Big 6's of Effective Literacy Instruction**
 * Time-Text-Teach-Talk-Tasks-Tests**

1. Recognize pronoun antecedents 2. Use context clues to figure out the meanings of unknown words 3. Understand the grammatical role of unknown words 4. Recognize character tone 5. Identify the beliefs, personalities, and motivations of characters 6. Understand character relationships 7. Provide setting details 8. Provide explanations for events and ideas in the text 9. Offer details or their own explanations of events in the text 10. Understand the author’s point of view 11. Recognize the author’s bias 12. Relate the text to events in their own lives 13. Construct conclusions based from the facts in the text
 * What Skill Readers do When Making Inferences**