Comments on: Emphasizing excellence http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/ Evidence-based teaching methods for helping students who are at risk for school failure or who have disabilities. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: JohnL http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59542 JohnL Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:32:02 +0000 http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59542 Hi, Elona. Thanks for stopping here. Kathy's given you a good response to your question: <blockquote>Could you please explain what the “Big Five” are.</blockquote> These days I usually hear this term applied with reference to the US National Reading Panel's (NRP) analysis of research on reading. In the mid- to late-1990s, at the behest of the US Congress, the Department of Education and the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institutes for Child Health and Human Development established a blue-ribbon panel to examine the research on reading, the NRP. (I was nominated, but they got much more qualified people in the end.) The NRP performed narrative and integrative reviews of the most rigorous research in each of five areas: <ol> <li>* Phonemic awareness</li> <li>* Phonics</li> <li>* Fluency (guided oral reading)</li> <li>* Vocabulary</li> <li>* Reading comprehension</li> </ol> Kathy's comment reflects the panel's emphasis on systematic and explicit instruction, a feature that one finds woven through these critical five areas of reading competence. There are good Web resources including one developed expressly to present the <a href="http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/" rel="nofollow">NRP findings</a> as well as <a href="http://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/nrp.cfm" rel="nofollow">one from the NICHD</a> that has comparable content. Hi, Elona. Thanks for stopping here. Kathy’s given you a good response to your question:

Could you please explain what the “Big Five” are.

These days I usually hear this term applied with reference to the US National Reading Panel’s (NRP) analysis of research on reading. In the mid- to late-1990s, at the behest of the US Congress, the Department of Education and the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institutes for Child Health and Human Development established a blue-ribbon panel to examine the research on reading, the NRP. (I was nominated, but they got much more qualified people in the end.) The NRP performed narrative and integrative reviews of the most rigorous research in each of five areas:

  1. * Phonemic awareness
  2. * Phonics
  3. * Fluency (guided oral reading)
  4. * Vocabulary
  5. * Reading comprehension

Kathy’s comment reflects the panel’s emphasis on systematic and explicit instruction, a feature that one finds woven through these critical five areas of reading competence.

There are good Web resources including one developed expressly to present the NRP findings as well as one from the NICHD that has comparable content.

]]> By: Kathy Rollheiser http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59271 Kathy Rollheiser Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:38:12 +0000 http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59271 On a happy note...I found a tutor in Victoria who does the Lindamood program! A colleague put me on to her, and while she is moving to Vancouver in May, we have enough time to go do some good work. The family is ecstatic- and I am much relieved. On a happy note…I found a tutor in Victoria who does the Lindamood program! A colleague put me on to her, and while she is moving to Vancouver in May, we have enough time to go do some good work. The family is ecstatic- and I am much relieved.

]]> By: Kathy Rollheiser http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59270 Kathy Rollheiser Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:34:47 +0000 http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59270 Hi Elona I am referring to the elements deemed necessary for effective early intervention. Shaywitz lists them in her book, something like this: Systematic and direct instruction in: -phonemic awareness -phonics (including sight words and comprehension strategies) 2)Practice in applying these skills in reading and in writing 3)Fluency training 4)Enriched language experiences 5)Appropriate duration and intensity (long and lots!) Hi Elona
I am referring to the elements deemed necessary for effective early intervention. Shaywitz lists them in her book, something like this:
Systematic and direct instruction in:
-phonemic awareness
-phonics (including sight words and comprehension strategies)
2)Practice in applying these skills in reading and in writing
3)Fluency training
4)Enriched language experiences
5)Appropriate duration and intensity (long and lots!)

]]> By: elona http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59160 elona Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:53:32 +0000 http://TeachEffectively.com/2008/01/08/emphasizing-excellence/#comment-59160 John or Kathy, Could you please explain what the "Big Five" are. Thanks. John or Kathy,
Could you please explain what the “Big Five” are. Thanks.

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