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The DIGILIT FRAMEWORK
Selecting and integrating the use of digital texts or tools in literacy lessons are
complex tasks. The DigiLit Framework provides a succinct model to guide planning,
reflection, coaching, and formative evaluation of teachers’ successful digital text or tool
selection and integration for literacy lessons. For digital text or tool selection, teachers
need to consider content accuracy, quality for supporting literacy development,
intuitiveness, and user interactivity. For integrating these in instruction, modeling and
guided practice should be provided for both literacy skills/strategies and the use of digital
text or tool affordances. Also, instruction should capitalize on the digital affordances to
transform instruction beyond what is possible with paper and pencil texts or tools.
Examples of using the DigiLit Framework to evaluate digital text and tool selections and
their integration in literacy instruction are provided.
DEMYSTIFYING IRI COMPREHENSION DATA: HOW ARE CLASSROOM TEACHERS USING IT?
This study examined the classroom practices of nine teachers as they collected,
scored, identified comprehension objectives, and used data from informal reading
inventories (IRIs) to inform comprehension instruction with 23 students. Using open
coding and constant comparative analysis (Corbin & Strauss, 2015), video recorded IRI
administrations, post-IRI interviews, follow-up reading lessons, final interviews, and 440
pages of artifacts were analyzed. Data were analyzed for patterns of collection, scoring,
comprehension objective identification, and follow-up instruction both within teachers
and across teachers. Findings revealed that teachers showed strengths in administering
suggested prompts, gaining additional information by asking open-ended questions,
completely scoring comprehension sections, and scoring many sections completely
accurately. Teachers’ needs were especially evident in the accurate identification of
comprehension objectives for upcoming instruction based on IRI data and in how to
provide appropriate follow-up instruction based on data from an IRI. Implications include
the need to explore individualized professional development given that different teachers
had differing strengths and needs as they used IRIs to collect, score, inform objectives
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