{"id":16985,"date":"2015-03-30T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T21:05:00","slug":"6-ways-uwm-improves-young-students-reading-and-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/6-ways-uwm-improves-young-students-reading-and-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"6 ways UWM improves young students\u2019 reading and literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading skills in some Milwaukee and Wisconsin schools need improvement, with one study showing that only 15 percent of Milwaukee fourth graders are proficient in reading.<\/p>\n<p>Here are ways the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u2019s School of Education works with teachers to help young students read well.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>College students tutor youngsters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16986\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/students_tutor-uij6j8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16986\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/students_tutor-uij6j8-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Junior Caroline Johnston shares a happy moment with a first grader as she sounds out words during her lesson.\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/students_tutor-uij6j8-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/students_tutor-uij6j8.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Junior Caroline Johnston shares a happy moment with a first grader as she sounds out words during her lesson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Literacy expert Ruth Short, an associate professor of education, works with an early intervention program for Milwaukee children in kindergarten through third grade in which students receive tutoring and literacy-focused, after-school activities for two years. Parents are encouraged to work with their children.<\/p>\n<p>Some 90 college students, predominantly UWM students and education majors, tutor children in 11 schools.<\/p>\n<p>The first two-year evaluation showed students improved their reading skills significantly. Early results for the second two-year effort confirmed that trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe truly love having UWM students as tutors,\u201d says Pat Marcus, director of program development in early childhood education for Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Literacy in two languages \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16987\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/literacyin2-1l47brw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16987\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/literacyin2-1l47brw-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Students at the Guadalupe Head Start Center enjoy reading about \u201cRainbow Fish,\u201d in English and Spanish. (UWM photo by Derek Rickert)\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/literacyin2-1l47brw-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/literacyin2-1l47brw.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the Guadalupe Head Start Center enjoy reading about \u201cRainbow Fish,\u201d in English and Spanish. (<em>UWM photo by Derek Rickert<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to improve teaching and learning in bilingual Head Start programs, UWM and partners in Milwaukee\u2019s Latino community recruit bilingual early childhood education teachers for preschoolers who are learning English.<\/p>\n<p>The team recently bought books in Spanish and English for 23 classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s increasingly important that the students not only learn to speak in both languages, but also learn the academic language they\u2019ll deal with in school, says Jennifer Mueller, associate professor of education.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Building \u2018Word Headquarters\u2019 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Brinn-qtgidq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16988 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Brinn-qtgidq-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Brinn\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Brinn-qtgidq-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Brinn-qtgidq.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children and their parents try out some of the activities in the Betty Brinn Museum\u2019s new Word Headquarters. UWM faculty and reading experts were among those advising the museum on the new display. <em>(Photo courtesy of VIP Photography\/Betty Brinn Children\u2019s Museum.<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Short, Christopher Lawson and Christiane Wood were consultants on The Betty Brinn Children\u2019s Museum\u2019s new Word Headquarters \u2013 described as a pretend factory in which children explore the building blocks of literacy, including letters, words and the punctuation needed to create sentences, stories and songs.<\/p>\n<p>In this factory-like setting, children fill orders for compound words, verbs, nouns and other literacy concepts that demonstrate the mechanics of reading and writing. Other activities include word games, audio books, an interactive performance space and role-playing.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Teachers teaching teachers<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16990\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/WritingProjectBradley-rw5h53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16990 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/WritingProjectBradley-rw5h53-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"English teacher Tracy McCubbin leads one of the 2013 workshops. MPS also shared the information on its district website, and the teachers did a regional presentation. (Photo by Kyle Stevens.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/WritingProjectBradley-rw5h53-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/WritingProjectBradley-rw5h53.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">English teacher Tracy McCubbin, one of the teachers who led the Bradley Tech project in 2013, works with student Timothy Thao. (<em>Photo by Kyle Stevens<\/em>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In partnership with the UWM Writing Project, teachers at Bradley Tech High School improved literacy among students. One teacher\u2019s students panicked at the words \u201cresearch report,\u201d but loved to ask questions. She developed lessons that channeled their questions into research projects. Some 80 percent of students showed increases in the quality and quantity of their writing, according to English Leadership Quarterly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16992\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Distance-Ed-Story-1qi4hsy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16992\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Distance-Ed-Story-1qi4hsy-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"One of the school districts that has brought the UWM Early Reading Empowerment methods to its classrooms is Rhinelander. This photo, from 2010, shows a teacher working with a young reader.\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Distance-Ed-Story-1qi4hsy-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2015\/03\/Distance-Ed-Story-1qi4hsy.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the school districts that has brought the UWM Early Reading Empowerment methods to its classrooms is Rhinelander. This photo, from 2010, shows a teacher working with a young reader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>Early Reading Empowerment<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Developed in 1991 at UWM, Early Reading Empowerment helps students across Wisconsin read better in early grades before they struggle and become discouraged. Teachers learn new techniques through classes at UWM (and on-line). Faculty members also train teachers in their school districts, where some end up training other teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can get the kids to believe in themselves and become confident readers before they fall behind, it sets the stage for success all through school,\u201d says Short.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Preparing reading teachers.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>When Wisconsin required a new test in 2014 for those wanting to become reading teachers and reading specialists, UWM created workshops to help them prepare \u2013 and even opened those workshops to students from other colleges and universities.<br \/>\nStudents can prepare for the test as part of their regular coursework, receiving academic credit. UWM will evaluate how much the workshops \u2013 first offered last year \u2013 are helping future reading teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are ways the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u2019s school of education works with teachers to help young students read well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,175],"tags":[],"section":[122,123],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[347,148],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","section-campus-community","section-campus-partnerships","uwmnews-feed-community-engagement-professions","uwmnews-feed-education"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 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