Reading Strategies

for 1 Graders
st

Nuong Nguyen
Steinbeck Elementary School

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Problem
• 38% of 1st graders are reading
below grade level

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Target Audience
• First Graders at John
Steinbeck Elementary School
• Age 6-8
• Range of reading skills

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Solutions
• My solution is to teach them 7 reading strategies:
1. Learn to look at pictures
2. Make each phoneme sounds
3. Stretch out the sound
4. Change the vowel sound (from short to long vowel or visa versa)
5. Reread the sentence
6. Break up the words into word families
7. Use context clues to figure out the unknown word

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Methods/Procedures
• Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction (1981)
1. Gain attention
2. Inform the learner of the objective
3. Stimulate recall of prior knowledge
4. Present the material
5. Provide guidance
6. Elicit Performance
7. Provide feedback
8. Assess Performance
9. Enhance retention and transfer

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Theories
• Cognitive Information
Processing Theory (CIP)
– Activate students’ prior
knowledge
– Make connections between
words and picture
– Call attention to what’s
important
– Small amounts of new
information
– Memory aids

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Final Deliverables
• 7 eLearning Modules
• Blended Delivery Approach
• Each module presents one reading strategy in a LMS
• Created in Adobe Captivate
– narration
– videos
– graphics
– animation
– Lots of practice

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Sample
• eLearning Module One “Eagle Eyes”

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Challenges
• Using Adobe Captivate
• Finishing the rest of the 6 eLearning Modules
– Making it interactive
– Allowing time to test the product
– Providing enough practice for the learners

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 Image Credits
• Dean, Andy (Photographer). (2018). Success and failure [digital image]. Retrieved from
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/success-failure-road-sign-dramatic-clouds-
4416988?src=JUVEcmL4G8clw0t1NIo-ig-1-75

• Powell, Bert. (2018). Eagle [digital image]. Retrieved from

• Input Ouput [Digital image]. (n.d). Retrieved from https://www.affairscloud.com/machine-input-

output-solved-examples/

• Kids Reading [Digital image]. (n.d). Retrieved from http://houstonlibrary.org/learn-

explore/kids/kids-book-lists

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Questions?

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