Culminating Project: Literacy Instruction

Part 1: Personal Belief System and Reading Models

Upload your Reading Belief System Philosophy Paper from Workshop 1. I will provide this as an attachment!!!

Create and insert a graphic organizer or other visual comparing each of the three models of reading: bottom-up, top-down, and interactive.

Include links or citations for any resources used

Part 2: The Early Years of Literacy Development

Create and insert a diagram or other visual showing the stages of reading development from birth through preschool.

Include links or citations for any resources used.

Provide a description of two to three teaching strategies that target each of the following reading components:

• Concepts of print
• Phonological awareness
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics

Note: You should have a total of eight to twelve strategies (two to three for each component listed above).

Include links or citations for any resources used.

Part 3: Reading Strategies, Interventions, and Instructional Approaches

Upload the Reading Assessment Brochure you created in Workshop 2. I will provide this!!!!!! as an attachment!!!!

Complete the chart below. Describe the purpose of each informal assessment, the type of setting you would implement it in (e.g., whole group, one-on-one, small group), and include two web link resources for each assessment that provide additional information, support, and/or printable for that assessment.

Part 4: Reading-Writing Connection and Technology

Create a matrix or other visual focused on comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.

Provide a description of two to three strategies for developing each of the following reading skills:

• Oral and silent reading fluency
• Reading comprehension
• Vocabulary knowledge
• Reading content area texts

Note: You should have a total of eight to twelve strategies (two to three for each skill listed above).

Include links or citations for any resource used.

Part 5: Reading Assessments

Create a graphic organizer or other visual with four activities for incorporating writing into your everyday curriculum. Branch off a brief explanation of each activity, along with a description of the setting in which it might be used.

Research and incorporate four technology tools you can use in your classroom to enhance reading and writing instruction. Include a brief description for each tool, and how you would use the tool for instruction. Be sure to cite the web link for each tool for future reference.

Part 6: Reflection

Write a 175- to 350-word reflection that highlights the new ideas, strategies, and methods from this course that you might consider implementing into your own teaching environment. Provide a rationale as to why these elements may fit into your current instruction.

Complete in APA format and inclue citations