This study sought to determine if the 2012 Eighth Grade Summer Reading Camp curriculum was aligned with the students’ needs. To determine if curriculum alignment existed, the researcher completed a qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitative study consisted of interviewing the school district program development team to ascertain how the curriculum was designed. The quantitative segment involved running descriptive statistics for student performance on the Pre-program Benchmark Examination. The determined student knowledge voids were compared to the amount of instructional time spent taught teaching those individual benchmarks to ascertain if the curriculum was aligned with student need. The curriculum was determined to not be aligned with the performance deficiencies of the students.

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The thesis Reading Workshop in Kindergarten as a support for the development of reading literacy deals in the theoretical part with the characteristics of pre-school children and their capabilities. It further investigates the methods that could be used for and are essential for the development of reading literacy in the pre-school age and the role of the family in this respect. The theoretical part is concluded with the introduction of the scheme Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking mentioning its basic resources. It shows that the reading workshop methods are very efficient for the active learning of children. The practical part describes 7 reading workshops that have been implemented in a typical kindergarten and this is supplemented with detailed comments. The empirical part investigates the family environment of children and, as based on parents' observations, it evaluates the contribution of reading workshops to the development of reading literacy of pre- school children. Reading workshops proved to be beneficial especially in terms of the growing interest of children in reading and also in terms of children's creativity development. KEYWORDS Reading Workshop, reading literacy, kindergarten, work with book, Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT), family, reading, literary education

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:44:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3644.pdf: 4810555 bytes, checksum: daacca33aee499e6f80c92491889b3f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-29 / In contemporary society the acquaintance of reading is considered a fundamental resource for the individual s citizenship achievement. Despite the schools dedication to their students, there is no guarantee that all students learn with the mastery and fluency required. Within this context , there are students who present Intellectual disabilities , and by their specific characteristics have significant limitations, both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior. Many of these students are inserted in regular schools which offer assistance in specialized pedagogical extra hours, but nevertheless they often reach the upper grades of elementary school without the necessary reading and comprehension skills . Studies in the area of stimulus equivalence have demonstrated that the application of systematic methodologies with individualized procedures can reverse that problem in several steps and ways of teaching. The purpose of this research study was to verify the effectiveness of an individualized reading e writing Program in order to improve the skills of students with intellectual disabilities , and attend the resource classes at elementary school. The participants were two students, which presented different stages of literacy, both students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in primary education in regular classes and resource rooms. The participant 1 was exposed to the program 1, which teaches the reading of simple words( consonant vowel ) and the participant 2 was exposed to the program 2, which teaches the reading of more complex language s words . In both cases the results indicated the effectiveness of the teaching reading Program. In conclusion It could be verified that the effectiveness of the Program as an additional instructional procedure to those already used in the classroom, since it enhances the student s learning in Literacy. The resource room features as a specialized pedagogical service with different resources and It can be effective, with small number of students, as an important space to the application of the program as well as monitoring the student s performance. / Na sociedade contemporânea o domínio da leitura se coloca como um recurso fundamental para o indivíduo exercer sua cidadania. Apesar das instituições escolares se dedicarem ao seu ensino, não há garantia que todos os alunos aprendam com o domínio e a fluência necessária. Inseridos nesse contexto, estão os alunos com Deficiência Intelectual, que por suas características específicas apresentam limitações significativas, tanto no funcionamento intelectual quanto no comportamento adaptativo. Muitos desses alunos estão inseridos na escola comum com atendimento pedagógico especializado no contraturno, mas ainda assim, frequentemente chegam às séries finais do ensino fundamental sem as habilidades necessárias para a leitura com compreensão. Estudos na área da equivalência de estímulos têm demonstrado que a aplicação de metodologias sistematizadas, com procedimentos individualizados, pode reverter essa dificuldade, nas diversas etapas e modalidade de ensino. O objetivo desse estudo foi verificar a efetividade de um programa de leitura e escrita individualizado para aprimorar as habilidades de leitura de alunos com deficiência intelectual que frequentam Salas de Recursos no Ensino Fundamental. Os participantes foram dois alunos com deficiência intelectual matriculados no ensino fundamental em classe comum e em sala de recursos, em estágios de alfabetização diferentes. A participante 1 foi exposta ao Programa 1, que ensina a leitura de palavras simples (consoante-vogal) e o Participante 2 foi exposto ao Programa 2 que ensina a leitura de palavras com dificuldades da língua. Os resultados indicam a efetividade do programa para o ensino de leitura, tanto para as palavras simples, quanto para aquelas mais complexas. Como conclusão pode-se verificar a eficácia da utilização do programa como procedimento pedagógico suplementar aos que são utilizados em sala de aula, potencializando a aprendizagem dos alunos no domínio da alfabetização. A sala de recursos, como Serviço Pedagógico Especializado, com recursos diferenciados e número de alunos reduzidos pode se efetivar enquanto espaço importante de aplicação do programa e monitoramento do desempenho do aluno.

The thesis deals with the possibilities of developing emergent literacy, especially story comprehension, with preschool children using selected methods of critical thinking. The theoretical part is devoted to the ways of developing passion for reading and reading literacy in preschool education, it pursues the possibilities of using some of the methods of the RWCT programme (Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking) in working with books in the educational process of the kindergarten. It further describes the development of chidren of preschool age and reading strategies that can already be cultivated at this age. The practical part describes the project Working with Jiří Stránský's book Tales for little Clara that is based on didactic application of its texts intended for preschoolers. The project makes use of selected methods of the RWCT programme. Research using the method of structured interview finds out how methods of critical thinking can influence story comprehension among five-year-old children. It evaluates and interprets the findings from the beginning and the end of the project implementation, compares the determined levels of story comprehension in a group of girls and in a group of boys. The outcomes of the research show a considerable improvement of comprehension following the...