FOUNDATIONS OF LITERACY Module I Introduction Power Point

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Directions: 1. Please read the Module I: Introduction, The Need on pp. 1 -2 and 1 -3 in the participant manual. 2. As you read and find connections to the reading components discussed in the Overview section and listed on the posters around the room, write those connections on a colored post-it note matching the appropriate poster. Each post-it should only have 1 idea or connection. 3. Be ready to share your connections. 4. The post-its will be placed on the appropriate posters after discussion in the whole group. 1 -3

• 85% of all juveniles within the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate. • Functionally illiterate prison inmates comprise 60% of the prison population. • Over 70% of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level. • Literacy is learned. Illiteracy is passed along by parents who cannot read or write. • One child in four grows up not knowing how to read. www. begintoread. com/research/literacystatistics. html 1 -4

• 43% of adults at Level 1 literacy skills live in poverty compared to only 4% of those at Level 5. • Three out of four food stamp recipients perform in the lowest two literacy levels. • 90% of welfare recipients are high school dropouts. • Low literacy costs $73 million per year in terms of direct health care costs. 1 -5

• Literacy is learned. Illiteracy is passed along by parents who cannot read or write. • One child in four grows up not knowing how to read. • 50% of approximately two million immigrants who arrive in the U. S. each year have low literacy levels and lack a high school education. www. begintoread. com/research/literacystatistics. html www. scilearn. com/blog/low-literacy-united-states. php 1 -6

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• • Activities to stimulate print awareness Activities to stimulate phonemic awareness Learning the names and sounds of letters Practice in reading words by blending letter sounds together • Opportunities to write meaningful sentences and stories using emerging spelling skills • Activities and discussion to help children construct the meaning of what they read 1 -11

Question 1: What is the critical role of phonemic (phonological) awareness? 2: Why are developing automaticity and Question understanding important, and what is meant by the term “linguistic gymnastics”? Question 3: Why do some students have difficulty when learning to read? Question 4: What implications does this research have on our teaching practices, and how do we move beyond assumptions? 1 -12

Reflection Journal My reflections of Foundations of Literacy. • Why is Beginning Reading Instruction so important? 1 -13

Action Research Assignment 1 Reflection Journal Questions 1 -14

Foundations of Literacy Module I: Introduction Power. Point Presentation Diana Brown 352 -394 -4411 dbrown@pls 3 rdleaning. com Title Page- i. Stockphoto. com/denisenko i. Stockphoto. com/liangpv i. Stockphoto. com/simonox PLS Images PLS Videos Power. Point Presentation By: Lawanna Martinec © 2013 PLS 3 rd Learning. 1 -15