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Reading

1.Goals for reading and writing include speed, accuracy, and comprehension.

2.Skills include summarizing, understanding the main point, identifying how a reading or writing is organized.

3.Evaluating how well a writer supports his or her argument.

4.Using strategies to understand unknown vocabulary, generalizing, using sight words, predicting, and drawing conclusions.

Writing

  The popular 6+1 trait writing framework (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2016) focuses on

1.content

2.organization

3.voice

4.word choice

5.sentence fluency

6.conventions such as proper spelling and grammar

Supporting Reading and Writing

1. Provide opportunities for differentiated learning to benefit students at all levels.

2. Let students, not the tools or texts, determine authenticity.

3. learning strategies. Strategies such as discerning patterns, using context clues, word analysis, guessing, and deducing are effective at helping learners reach reading and writing goals

4. Students should be exposed to extensive reading and writing.Teachers can adapt computer-based materials and texts by adding external documents (Egbert, 2001) that help students notice conventions or by following suggestions to adapt such activities as WebQuests.

5. It is still possible to provide students with feedback through computers and/or design computerized tasks to support the learning process.