Culturally Responsive Teaching ETR LEA DRA

1. Culturally Responsive Teaching ETR LEA DRA Kasey Coatta, Rachael Metcalfe, Brittney Erickson, Chelsea Brown, JustinaSmet, Katie Lutzke • Allow time for peers to share their feelings about universal themes in order to build the classroom community. • ETR is the experience-text-relationship method. It uses discussion to link what the child already knows to what he/she will be reading about in the basal reader. • E=Experience –The students discuss previous experiences they have had that relate to the story they’re about to read. • T=Text—The students will begin reading short passages (usually one-two pages) of the story and answer questions based off the content they read. • R=Relationship—The teacher attempts to describe relationships between the students past experiences (E sequence) and the text being read (T sequence). • The E, T, R sequences guide the children systematically to the understanding of a written story. • The teacher should be a “skilled questioner” leading the children to the correct answers rather than directly telling them the answers. • Interaction with the teacher is extremely important. • For minority children who do not often succeed in school, E sequences may be of particular importance in learning to read.

2. LEA=Language Experience Approach—reading instruction based on activities and stories developed from personal experiences of the learner. • The personal experiences are written down by a teacher and read together until the learner associates the written form of the word with the spoken. • Benefits: -Brings together writing, reading, art, and language. • -Extends the learner’s creativity in storytelling through writing. • -Helps learner’s understand that what they think and say can be written. • -Is learner-centered and demonstrates that the learners' thoughts and language are valued. • -Provides reading material that is predictable and readable because it uses the learners' natural language. • Example activities: -Take a trip to an interesting location • -Bring an animal/object to the classroom to observe/discuss • -Invite a guest to class • -Take a walk and observe • DRA=Directed Reading Activity=A strategy that provides students with instructional support before, during, and after reading. • Resources • Hu-Pei Au, Kathryn. (March 1979). Using the Experience-Text-Relationship Method With Minority Children. • Mays, Lydia. (2008). “The Cultural Divide of Discourse: Understanding How English- Language Learners’ Primary Discourse Influences Acquisition of Literacy.” The Reading Teacher. Volume 61, no. 5. • DRA Directed Reading Activity. National Education Association. www.nea.org/reading/directedreading.html • What is the Language Experience Approach? 1999 SIL International • http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/literacy/referencema terials/glossaryofliteracyterms/WhatIsTheLanguage ExperienceApp.htm