CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORIES
Constructivism: the integration of new knowledge with existing knowledge
PSYCHOLINGUISTIC THEORY
LANGUAGE CUE SYSTEMS
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 65)
Syntactic Cues
Semantic Cues
Graphophonic Cues
Beliefs
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 65 - 66)
Readers rely on LANGUAGE CUEING SYSTEMS to help them rapidly read text.
PREDICTIONS:Students make predictions based on their knowledge of cues
One can gain insight into the cueing system that readers used by analyzing their miscues.
SCHEMA THEORY
Practices
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 60)
Activate students' background knowledge
Webbing
Vocabulary activities
Anticipation guides
Previewing
Beliefs
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 60)
People organize everything they know into SCHEMATA or knowledge structures
Restructuring: learners must create a new schema
Schemata are pliant and expandable
Three processes
Accretation: learners take in new information but do not need to change existing schema
Tuning: an existing schema is modified to incorporate new information
Restructuring: learners must create a new schema
INQUIRY LEARNING THEORY
Beliefs
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 57)
Education's purpose is to produce citizens capable of successfully participating in and contributing to a democratic society.
Practices
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 57)
Emphasizes problem based learning
Students needs to:
-formulate hypotheses
-collect data
-draw conclusions
-reflect on the original problem and the thinking processes used
Promotes:
-Collaboration
-cooperation
-democracy
METACOGNITIVE THEORY
Practices
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 70)
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION of metacognitive strategies
Teachers use the gradual transfer model of teaching.
Beliefs
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 69)
The goal of metacognitive instruction is to help readers become more aware of their own thinking during the reading process which should lead to increased text comprehension
Metacognition is the process of thinking about one's own thinking
TRANSACTIONAL THEORY
Beliefs
(Rosenblatt, 2013, p. 927-928)
Readers use their "linguistic experiential reservoirs" during reading
Purpose of reading/writing is communication
Every reading act is a transaction involving a particular reader and a particular text
PURPOSES FOR READING/WRITING
Effererent
Aesthetic
TYPES OF RESPONSES
Evocation
Expressed response
Expressed Interpretion
WHOLE LANGUAGE THEORY
Beliefs
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 67)
Reading is a natural process that children acquire when placed in a high quality literacy environment.
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are interconnected.
Practices
(Tracey&Morrow, 2017, p. 67-68
Uses authentic pieces of high quality children's literature rather than commercially prepared basal reading series as the primary materials.
Center based activities
Reading and Writing Workshop
CRITICAL LITERACY
Beliefs
(Luke & Freebody, 1997, p.193)
Reading and writing are social activities.
All texts are motivated - there is no neutral position
We learn about reading a writing position from those responsible for our learning.
Institutionally purpose-built repertoires of "selves" are represented in all texts.
Critical Practices
(Luke & Freebody, 1997, p. 214)
What kind of person, with what interests and values, could both write and read this naively and unproblematically?
What is the text trying to do to me? In whose interest?
Which positions, voices, and interests are at play? Which are silent and absent?