1. EDRD 597 – WK # 10 Opener Mid-Term projects presented
Reading Article # 11
Fran Pettigrew’s video from TFL
Assignment: Article # 10
Closure

2. The Role of Explicit Instruction in Reading
Whole language: emphasis on authentic, literacy-rich environments, accompanied by embedded phonics instruction
Explicit instruction: underscores explicit modeling of information processing

3. Implicit Instruction
Rooted in the progressive movement, which focused on children and their experience rather than on children and the curriculum.

4. Samples of Implicit Reading Instruction
Whole language
Language experience
Literary response theory
Extensive reading
Free voluntary reading

5. Characteristics of Explicit Instruction
Reading is an active process that involves readers’ interaction with text to produce meaning
Thinking about thinking
Reader uses declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge
Raises learners’ metacognitive ability