Supporting+Emergent+Readers

Chapters 10-14 1. What do Fountas & Pinnell mean by the terms story awareness, language awareness, and print awareness?

2. How will the implementation of emergent storybooks help you teach story, print, and language awareness?

3. How often should you read aloud to your students? List 5 of your favorite Read Alouds.

4. Discuss the practice of "turn and talk" or as Scholastic calls it "think, turn, and talk".

5. Shared Reading is the next step on the Continuum after interactive read aloud. During an IRA, the teacher is reading and students are listening and comprehending. During Shared Reading, the students begin to read along. They begin to notice print. Discuss the ways to make this successful as referenced on page 129.

6. Looking at page 128, 334, and Appendix A describe a Shared Reading lesson in your classroom.

7. Besides teaching students about the cover, title, author and illustrator, there are other important behaviors we want to teach early readers. Discuss what you learned from pages 132 and 133.

8. Every teacher should understand the reading process. Fountas and Pinnell break this process down for us using 3 terms: Thinking Within the Text, Beyond the Text, and About the text. Discuss the "within the text" thinking.

9. Discuss the "Beyond the Text" thinking process.

10. Discuss the "About the Text" thinking process.