Franciscan University DataStars

Database of Sharing, Teaching, & Applying Reading Strategies

Welcome to DataSTARS: Database of Sharing, Teaching, & Applying Reading Strategies!

 

DataSTARS is the result of work done out of a grant called: Preparing Teachers to Use a Variety of Evidence-Based Reading Strategies & Tools in the Science of Reading through Creation of a Shared Virtual Database: A Collaboration between Pre-service and In-service Educators – Applied in Virtual & F2F Environments. Read more here.

Science of Reading Connection

Site Organization

Word Recognition 

  1. Phonological Awareness 
    1. Isolating Phonemes 
    2. Practice Blending Sounds, Diphthongs (oy, ey, ai), and Digraphs (ph, sh, th) 
    3. Clapping out Syllables 
    4. Combine Word Patterns to Build Compound Words 
    5. Compound Words 
    6. Search for Small Words inside Big Words 
    7. Mystery Bag 
    8. Drawing a Phonetic Alphabet 
  2.  Decoding 
    1. Sketch-to-Stretch (StS) 
    2. Recorded Reading for Accuracy and Fluency 
    3. Explicit Instruction as Applied to Morphology 
    4. Repeated Reading 
  3.  Sight Recognition 
    1. Word Automaticity 
    2. Six Types of Syllables 

Language Comprehension 

  1. Background Knowledge 
    1. PreReading Plan (PreP) 
    2. Story Impression Strategy 
  2. Vocabulary 
    1. List-Group-Label 
    2. Concept Definition Word Map (CD-Word Map) 
    3. Vocabulary Triangles 
    4. Using DARTS (Directed Activities Related to Text Strategy) 
  3. Language Structures 
    1. Point of View Guides Writing Strategy (POVGs) 
    2. Unsent Letters 
    3. Sentence Anagrams 
    4. Sentence Variation 
  4. Verbal Reasoning 
    1. Knowledge Ratings 
    2. Discussion Web 
    3. Questions the Author (QtA) as Applied to Increasing Reading Comprehension 
  5. Literacy Knowledge 
    1. Reciprocal Teaching 

The Simple View of Reading

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(Gough & Tunmer, 1986)