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RDG 415 Entire Course

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 1

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 2
RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 3
RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 1
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 2
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 3
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 4
RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 5
RDG 415 Week 2 Assignment Informal Reading Assessments Questi
ons

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)

How might environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic factors affe

ct a student's reading success? Provide specific examples from our
readings or other resources.

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP)

What strategies may we employ as teachers in order to produce st

udents that not only can read, but do read?

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP)

Do you believe that all teachers are reading teachers? Defend your
answer

RDG 415 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP)

What are the major issues that many students face in the reading t
o learn stage? Defend your answer

RDG 415 Week 2 Assignment Infor

mal Reading Assessments Question
s (UOP)

What are the components of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?

What reading skill does an oral retelling check?
Look at the Concepts About Print Checklist. Explain the importance
of students having some of these skills before they enter kindergar
ten. How might lower socioeconomic students be at a disadvantag
e in knowing these skills.
What are metacomprehension strategies?
What is a miscue analysis?

RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)

What are some of the challenges in administering an Informal Rea

ding Inventory (IRI) found in Miller's textbook, The Reading Teache
r's Survival Kit?

RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP)

Which of the informal assessments that Miller and or Gillet propos

e do you think may provide the most accurate picture of students'
reading abilities? Please give specific examples. Which informal ass
essments (like the ones you will be using with your client) would yo
u want to use to help diagnose your client's reading difficulties? Ta
ke a look at the tests that are required for your Final report. Which
one(s) of these and others that the authors describe would be valu
able

RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP)

What are some strategies that you will utilize to ensure that assess
ment is continuous in your classroom?

RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP)

How do you think collaboration among colleagues in analyzing ass

essment results may benefit classroom assessment and instruction
?

RDG 415 Week 2 DQ 5 (UOP)

How will you use data to group students for instruction, select inte
rventions, manage your data, and monitor progress of students?

RDG 415 Week 3 Assignment Scenar

io Powerpoint (UOP)

Read the Scenario for your team.

Share and Discuss ideas with your teammates about what area of
difficulty your student is experiencing and about how you would re
mediate this students reading difficulties.
Each team member chooses

RDG 415 Week 3 Assignment The Re

ading Assessment Research Graphi
c Organizer (UOP)

Research reading assessments as recommended by the National R

eading Panel, Reading First, No Child Left Behind, or the Reading E
xcellence Act.
Select, as individuals, one assessment to research. Consider, but y
ou are not limited to the following examples:
Dynamic Indicators

RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP)

What are the pros and cons of standardized assessments?

RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)

In Chapter 3 of Gillet's book, reading is compared to swimming. Pl

ease discuss: Do you agree with this comparison? Why or why not?
Which two or three of the informal assessments that Carly gave wo
uld you choose? Why?

RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP)

When the state-required reading achievements are given in your sc

hool, a teacher you know reads difficult items aloud to some of her
lowest readers. She defends her actions by saying, Its wrong to m
ake them struggle with material everyone knows they cant read. A
rgue for or against her actions.

RDG 415 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP)

You are a member of a committee in your district. What criteria wo

uld you use to select a formal assessment to be used district wide?

RDG 415 Week 4 Assignment The In

structional Activity Paper (UOP)

Choose four instructional activities from The Reading Teachers Sur

vival Kit that would be appropriate for your client.
Write a 100- to 150-word rationale for each of the chosen activities
.
Implement one of the activities with your client.
Write a 350-word reflection describing the implementation of the a
ctivity and the results.
Note. You may want to consider posting this assignment or resourc
es to your personal Presentation Portfolio or Resource Folio in Tas
kStream. This is not required.

RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP)

We all need some skills both in reading by sight words and by pho
nics. But if you had to choose teaching one more than the other, w
hich would you choose and why?

RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)

Given all the strategies that have been discussed, how will this infl
uence your instructional approach to teaching reading? The title of
this course implies that you learn about the diagnosis and remedia
tion of reading difficulties. Do you feel that both of these were cov
ered adequately, keeping in mind we have a grand 5 weeks to work
together? What area needs more emphasis, resources, or clarificati
on?

RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP)

What study skill, from the website below, do you think is the most i
mportant? Why?

RDG 415 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP)

What has been the most challenging part of working with your clie
nt for the case study/project? How might you approach the challen
ge next time?

RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP)

How will you design instruction to embrace several different learni

ng styles in a classroom situation?

RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP)

How would you prepare for and conduct a parentteacher confere

nce regarding a student who is having reading difficulties?

RDG 415 Week 5 DQ 3 (UOP)

What do you consider the most important issues regarding diagno

sis and remediation of reading difficulties? How have your views ch
anged since the start of this course?

RDG 415 Week 5 Final Diagnostic and Instructi

on Recommendations Report (UOP)

Recommendations Report Instructions, and Sample Final Diagnosti

c and Instructional Recommendations Report
Participate in a teaching situation with one reading client located fr
om possibly one of the following:
Neighborhood children

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