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Three Text Types
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Beginning Literacy
Framework™
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An effective means for developing beginning readers' word knowledge and comprehension is exposure to text. For students with significant reading difficulties, meaningful reading experiences should happen throughout the day and with a variety of texts. Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters offers topic-specific sets that combine Enrichment, Transitional and Conventional text types to accomplish all-day reading experiences. This allows teachers to take every opportunity to create teachable moments that introduce reading skills through both direct and indirect approaches.
Three Considerate Text Types Develop Critical Beginning Reading Skills
• Enrichment text introduces new topics, concepts and vocabulary to expand background knowledge and oral language
• Transitional text supports students' vocabulary and oral language understanding
• Conventional text promotes word-reading accuracy, automaticity and fluency as students practice repeated reading
Considerate Supports Ensure Longer Engagement
• Professional narration models fluent reading and keeps students engaged
for longer periods of time
• Vocabulary cards reinforce and keep new vocabulary and sight words
active for students
• Considerate photographs illustrate
text and enhance meaning
Teachers Target Beginning Reading
Skill Development
By using a combination of the three types of text, teachers focus reading instruction in four areas
• Oral language
• Print conventions
• Alphabetic principle
• Phonological awareness
An Intervention Planning Tool is provided to determine each student's reading profile and targets a reading plan that fits individual student needs
How To Implement Into Your Classroom
Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters provides teachers with different avenues to reach a variety of very novice readers throughout the day, right in the classroom.
• Project computer books on a white board interface for small group instruction to address students with similar skills
• Use the read to me, read with me and read by myself versions to provide different levels of practice
• Integrate the colorful paperback books into students' day for peer and independent reading
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