Webinar for week 2 on emergent and beginning reading.

1. OPTIONALWEBINAR
WEEK 2
LIST 5373, SPR 16
Dr. Peggy Semingson
Tuesday, 4/19 (6:00-6:45, CST)
Join Link: Link to join the webinar: https://elearn.uta.edu/webapps/bb-
collaborate-bb_bb60/launchSession/guest?uid=ee42c9b7-daa0-48b1-
85a3-ac4c936df68aYou can join by computer/laptop or by the mobile app
for “Blackboard Collaborate”.

2. Plan for theWebinar
■ Reminders about assignments
■ Check-in for how we are doing with the Professional Development
Handout and Lesson Plan Handout
■ Chat/dialogue about key ideas for the course forWeek 1 and 2
■ A few mini-lectures throughout and commentary from Dr.
Semingson
■ A word of encouragement!
■ The webinar will be about 30 minutes (or so) in length!

3. Reminders of key assignments!
■ Reading Response & Replies every
week
■ Quizzes every week
■ Phonics Quiz-Week 3
■ Word Study Plan-Week 4
■ Professional Development
Handout-Week 5
■ *Be sure you have purchasedTK20!

4. How’s it going?
Any general
questions so
far?
How are the
readings
going?
How are
discussions
going online?

5. What are your ideas so far for the….
■ 1) Professional
Development Handout?
■ 2)Word Study Lesson
Plan?
Image: Bitmoji app

6. PD Handout: 10+ tips that connect or draw from the
research (evidence-based practice)
■ At least 10+ tips should be presented that focus on several key
areas of a targeted grade level or grade levels.
■ You should elaborate (BE SPECIFIC) on the tips so that any
teacher could take this from your presentation and put the ideas
into practice.
■ All points must have research support (cite source).You must
draw on the research-based journal articles that you read.
■ Examples are on Blackboard to explore.

7. Quotes about beginning reading….
■ "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." — Emilie Buchwald
■ "Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to
them as a precious gift." — Kate DiCamillo
■ “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building
the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”
― Marilyn Jager Adams
■ The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic
awareness.-Marilyn Jager Adams
■ More on Marilyn Jager Adams: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm
■ Beginning to Read:Thinking and Learning about Print by Marilyn Jager Adams
CHAT WINDOW DIALOGUE:
1)Which of the above quotes stood out to you?
2)What are your earliest memories of learning to read and/or write?

8. What do we know about…
■ Emergent literacy and
beginning reading?
■ -connections
■ -resources
■ -experiences

9. Additional Ideas to Discuss
■ Learning to read versus Reading to Learn (Jeanne Chall)
■ Debate of “whole language” versus “phonics” and “balanced
literacy”
■ Matthew Effect (Stanovich, 1986)
■ Discussion of Chall’s stages of reading development:
http://www.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/r/readin
g_bestpractices_assessment_red_c1_L02_tr_alookrsrch.pdf

10. Recommendation:
This movie is on Netflix streaming:
The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia
http://kpjrfilms.co/the-big-picture/

12. Group dialogue: Chat in real time!
■ What is the role of teacher modeling in beginning
reading? How does the apprenticeship model apply
to early and beginning reading?
■ Demonstration of Dr. Semingson thinking-aloud
about reading strategies….

13. Closure
■ What ideas stood out to you?
■ What is a goal you have for your own learning in this class?
■ Reminder: #slowchat onTwitter (optional).Topic: Elementary
literacy learning

14. Encouragement
■Keep going!
■Reward yourself
■Finish
assignments
early.
■Resources on
Blackboard!
■Contact Dr. S if
needed!