Good morning

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Good morning

• Without looking, please take a cube from the bag
  and sit at the table with the same color cube
  (there are two shades of blue).

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Goals

• Look at ways to assess guided reading
• Discuss and experience some reading comprehension
  strategies

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A Balanced Reading Program

• Read Aloud
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• Independent Reading

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Assessing Reading Development

• Informal Reading Inventories (IRI)
• Graded words lists
• Graded passages
• Running records/miscue analysis
• Graphophonic/syntactic/semantic errors
• Comprehension questions/retelling
• Frustration/instructional/independent levels
• Other components

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Graded Words Lists
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Running Record with Miscue Analysis
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• Substitution
• They did not have books.
• Omission
• they dove the waves
• Insertion
• splashing and spraying the water
• Correction
• in the shade of the tall palm tree
• Multiple attempt
• How lucky he was to live in a Somali village
• Partial word
• Mohamed loved to go swimming in the sea.

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Cueing Systems
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Running Record with Miscue Analysis

• The little monkey had it.
• to see if there was any danger. He heard the
• Every day except Friday

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Gradual Release of Responsibility

• There are, in the end, only two main ways
  human beings learn by observing others
  (directly or vicariously) and by trying things
  out for themselves. Novices learn from experts
  and from experience. Thats all there is to it.
  Everything else is in the details.
• --Deborah Meier

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Think Aloud(from Opitz, M. Rasinski, T.
(1998). Goodbye round robin 25 effective oral
reading strategies. Portsmouth, NH Heinemann.)

• Select a passage to read aloud.
• Begin reading the passage aloud as the students
  follow along. When you come to a trouble spot,
  stop and think it through aloud while students
  listen.
• When you have completed the reading in this way,
  invite students to add their own thoughts.
• 4. Pair students had have them practice the
  procedure with each other.

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Connecting

• TT Text-to-text
• TS Text-to-self
• TW Text-to-world
• Other Codes
• ? Question
• P Prediction
• R Reminds me of
• Important idea
• huh? or C Confusion

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Story Artifacts
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Questioning

• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -
  Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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• One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all.
  And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies
  saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the
  grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher
  until one's cheeks burned with the silent
  imputation of parsimony that such close dealing
  implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar
  and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would
  be Christmas.There was clearly nothing to do
  but flop down on the shabby little couch and
  howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral
  reflection that life is made up of sobs,
  sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
  predominating.

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• While the mistress of the home is gradually
  subsiding from the first stage to the second,
  take a look at the home. A furnished flat at 8
  per week. It did not exactly beggar description,
  but it certainly had that word on the lookout for
  the mendicancy squad.In the vestibule below was
  a letter-box into which no letter would go, and
  an electric button from which no mortal finger
  could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto
  was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham
  Young."The "Dillingham" had been flung to the
  breeze during a former period of prosperity when
  its possessor was being paid 30 per week. Now,
  when the income was shrunk to 20, though, they
  were thinking seriously of contracting to a
  modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James
  Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat
  above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by
  Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced
  to you as Della. Which is all very good.

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• Della finished her cry and attended to her
  cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the
  window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking
  a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would
  be Christmas Day, and she had only 1.87 with
  which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving
  every penny she could for months, with this
  result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far.
  Expenses had been greater than she had
  calculated. They always are. Only 1.87 to buy a
  present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she
  had spent planning for something nice for him.
  Something fine and rare and sterling--something
  just a little bit near to being worthy of the
  honor of being owned by Jim.There was a
  pier-glass between the windows of the room.
  Perhaps you have seen a pierglass in an 8 flat.
  A very thin and very agile person may, by
  observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of
  longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate
  conception of his looks. Della, being slender,
  had mastered the art.Suddenly she whirled from
  the window and stood before the glass. her eyes
  were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost
  its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she
  pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full
  length.

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• Now, there were two possessions of the James
  Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a
  mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had
  been his father's and his grandfather's. The
  other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba
  lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della
  would have let her hair hang out the window some
  day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's
  jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the
  janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the
  basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch
  every time he passed, just to see him pluck at
  his beard from envy.So now Della's beautiful
  hair fell about her rippling and shining like a
  cascade of brown waters. It reached below her
  knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
  And then she did it up again nervously and
  quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood
  still while a tear or two splashed on the worn
  red carpet.On went her old brown jacket on
  went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts
  and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes,
  she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to
  the street.Where she stopped the sign read
  "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One
  flight up Della ran, and collected herself,
  panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly
  looked the "Sofronie."

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• "Will you buy my hair?" asked Della."I buy
  hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's
  have a sight at the looks of it."Down rippled
  the brown cascade."Twenty dollars," said
  Madame, lifting the mass with a practised
  hand."Give it to me quick," said Della.Oh,
  and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings.
  Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking
  the stores for Jim's present.She found it at
  last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one
  else. There was no other like it in any of the
  stores, and she had turned all of them inside
  out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and
  chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value
  by substance alone and not by meretricious
  ornamentation--as all good things should do. It
  was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw
  it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like
  him. Quietness and value--the description applied
  to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her
  for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents.
  With that chain on his watch Jim might be
  properly anxious about the time in any company.
  Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it
  on the sly on account of the old leather strap
  that he used in place of a chain.

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• When Della reached home her intoxication gave
  way a little to prudence and reason. She got out
  her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to
  work repairing the ravages made by generosity
  added to love. Which is always a tremendous task,
  dear friends--a mammoth task.
• Within forty minutes her head was covered with
  tiny, close-lying curls that made her look
  wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked
  at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully,
  and critically."If Jim doesn't kill me," she
  said to herself, "before he takes a second look
  at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island
  chorus girl. But what could I do--oh! what could
  I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?"At
  7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan
  was on the back of the stove hot and ready to
  cook the chops.Jim was never late. Della
  doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the
  corner of the table near the door that he always
  entered. Then she heard his step on the stair
  away down on the first flight, and she turned
  white for just a moment. She had a habit for
  saying little silent prayer about the simplest
  everyday things, and now she whispered "Please
  God, make him think I am still pretty."

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• The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed
  it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow,
  he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a
  family! He needed a new overcoat and he was
  without gloves.Jim stopped inside the door, as
  immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His
  eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an
  expression in them that she could not read, and
  it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise,
  nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the
  sentiments that she had been prepared for. He
  simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar
  expression on his face.Della wriggled off the
  table and went for him.

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• "Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me
  that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because
  I couldn't have lived through Christmas without
  giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you
  won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My
  hair grows awfully fast. Say Merry Christmas!'
  Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a
  nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for
  you.""You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim,
  laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that
  patent fact yet even after the hardest mental
  labor."Cut it off and sold it," said Della.
  "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me
  without my hair, ain't I?"Jim looked about the
  room curiously."You say your hair is gone?" he
  said, with an air almost of idiocy.

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• "You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's
  sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's
  Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went
  for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were
  numbered," she went on with sudden serious
  sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love
  for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"Out of
  his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He
  enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard
  with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential
  object in the other direction. Eight dollars a
  week or a million a year--what is the difference?
  A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong
  answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that
  was not among them. This dark assertion will be
  illuminated later on.Jim drew a package from
  his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the
  table."Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said,
  "about me. I don't think there's anything in the
  way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that
  could make me like my girl any less. But if
  you'll unwrap that package you may see why you
  had me going a while at first."

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• White fingers and nimble tore at the string and
  paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy and
  then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical
  tears and wails, necessitating the immediate
  employment of all the comforting powers of the
  lord of the flat.For there lay The Combs--the
  set of combs, side and back, that Della had
  worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful
  combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled
  rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful
  vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she
  knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned
  over them without the least hope of possession.
  And now, they were hers, but the tresses that
  should have adorned the coveted adornments were
  gone.But she hugged them to her bosom, and at
  length she was able to look up with dim eyes and
  a smile and say "My hair grows so fast,
  Jim!"And them Della leaped up like a little
  singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"

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• Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She
  held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm.
  The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a
  reflection of her bright and ardent
  spirit."Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all
  over town to find it. You'll have to look at the
  time a hundred times a day now. Give me your
  watch. I want to see how it looks on
  it."Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the
  couch and put his hands under the back of his
  head and smiled."Dell," said he, "let's put our
  Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while.
  They're too nice to use just at present. I sold
  the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And
  now suppose you put the chops on."

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• The magi, as you know, were wise
  men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to
  the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of
  giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their
  gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing
  the privilege of exchange in case of duplication.
  And here I have lamely related to you the
  uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a
  flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other
  the greatest treasures of their house. But in a
  last word to the wise of these days let it be
  said that of all who give gifts these two were
  the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts,
  such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are
  wisest. They are the magi.

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QARs Question Answer Relationships

• IN THE TEXT
• RT Right There
• TS Think and Search
• IN MY HEAD
• AM Author and Me
• OMO On My Own

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QAR A possible lesson sequence

• Teach students strategies for finding answers to
  questions. Begin with simple category (e.g., In
  the Book and In My Head).
• Provide experiences so that students can learn
  the distinctions between categories (e.g., In the
  Book Right There vs. Think and Search)
• 2. Provide experiences so that students can
  learn distinctions between question types within
  a category (e.g., In the Book Right There vs.
  Think and Search In My Head On My Own and
  Author and Me)
• 3. Students read short passages and
  corresponding questions. They sort questions
  based on category and/ortype.
• 4. Students write their own questions and
  interpret others questions.

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• In what ways is Jim unwise?
• In what ways is Delia wise?
• How much did Della spend on a watch fob for Jim?
• How did Della feel at the beginning of the story?
• Why does O. Henry refer to the characters as
  children?
• What does the title have to do with this story
  about Della and Jim?
• How does Della get the money to buy a gift for
  Jim?
• How does Jim feel when he gets his present from
  Della?
• Why did O. Henry write this story?
• What did Dellas gift look like?
• What does this story have to do with present day
  celebrations of this holiday?
• Are these gifts useful? Frivolous? Both?
• Pick a character. Which characteristics do you
  find most admirable and why?
• What was the best gift you ever gave/received?
  Why?

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Bibliography

• An Observation Survey of Early Literacy
  Achievement by Marie Clay