Throughout our lives we are taught different stories that can affect us dramatically, either in a positive way or negative way. During our childhood we read the Tortoise and the Hare, which is a story that taught us the moral, “slow and steady wins the race”. We also read things such as: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, which taught us essentially not to lie, because if you lie enough, you won’t be believed when you tell the truth. These stories taught us valuable lessons growing up, but not only do these children books teach us lessons. As we get older we start reading things known as creation myths in our classes.…
Learning to Read Malcom X 1) Generally speaking, people start off learning to read at a young age. They primarily attend school, where they are taught with images and words in which they learn to formulate small sentences at a time. They are given “beginners” vocabulary which begins to advance with one’s cognitive understanding, age, and grade.…
There are some many of Jeanne Willis' books I would choose to use in my teaching. I liked Tadpole's Promise, Dumb Creatures and Mole's Sunrise among others. I realize that many of Jeanne Willis' work had really good object lessons within. So they are not just helping children to read but teaching important life lessons.…
When starting Daily 5 for the first time with a class, it is important to start small and build up from there. Repetition is also very important when beginning Daily 5. It is important to have short practice sessions and then come back together and talk about how it went. This will help the students to nail down a few places that are best for them when it comes to reading independently. On the first day of school the author encourages the teacher to let the students look around and chose a few book they think are good fit books for them.…
Art and literature are the foundation of life. Long before Netflix and social media existed, people used books to entertain themselves. Mason Cooley said “reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are”. Even in 21st century, the age of technology, people use books as a source of entertainment and writing as a form of self-expression. Books and reading in general has many benefits like mental stimulation, gaining knowledge and much more.…
(1) Encouraging pupils to participate in shared reading and writing activities. The teaching assistant could read to the pupils on a daily basis, this will help pupils learn fluent sounds. This will also help pupils understand how sentences and text can make sense and learn when to pause for full stops, question marks etc. • Sharing books, stories, poems and rhymes to introduce pupils to different literary styles or genres including picture books. This also includes looking at other types of printed materials, e.g. newspapers, magazines, comics, signs.…
Northern Vance High School is one of three high schools in Vance County alongside 17 others schools from Elementary and Middle Schools with majority of them being traditional public schools. Northern Vance has about 1160 students who attend the school; with the class size ranging from 18 to 26 students. Northern Vance High School is located in a rural area near a small highway surrounded by restaurants and gas stations. There are roughly 77 classroom teachers. There is a turnover rate of 35 %.…
Going away to college is one of the most awaited stages in a young person’s life. Here is where people face being independent for the first time, where they have to become responsible young adults in order for them to succeed. The college atmosphere includes a lot of freedom, where there is no direct parental supervision, and this is where many young adults find themselves. However, too much freedom leads to people making unwise decisions, like drugs and alcohol.…
In this article, Neil Gaiman shows us the importance of reading and the helpful of libraries. Our future depends on books, our children need to read to sharpen their knowledge, find information that will be useful to them and work their imaginations. One of the best ways children can read and acquire knowledge of, it’s by reading a book. He shows us that the world needs libraries and books because of everything around us, once was in the mind of someone, then imagination runs everything.…
Literature is an essential part of any classroom, because if gives the students many different options and abilities to learn about certain subjects, work on phonics and print awareness. In my pre-k class at Downey Elementary literature is used to inform students on important ideas and concepts about their own daily lives, and then teach students about vocabulary and things of interest. The teacher in my classroom uses books that are “based on the students interest” for read-aloud, and that they are not supposed to have “themes” per say. The books for their large group reading normally corresponds with a health and safety standard that is posted in the room in several spots.…
Many people don't understand the importance of books. Growing up, books were not a big importance in my life, they were only used as a punishment. As I got older I grew to understand the importance for…
It teaches us about problem solving and the wrong assumption that many people make trying to impart their solution onto other’s problems. Sometimes just sitting back and looking at the big picture can solve the problem. May be there wasn’t a problem to solve, it just some animals not minding their own business? It also teaches us to respect and the text provides a valuable lesson about diversity and not to focus on ‘looks’. Literature is a faucet that can give flow to language that creates ideas and floods the imagination and gives rise to knowledge.…
Whether it be a Goosebumps books or Mark Twain books you 'll go anywhere it leads you, but once I got into middle school and high school the books weren 't like that anymore. School books do have plenty of information in them, but they’re uninteresting to read. Not too many people want to get lost in a book about photosynthesis, they would much rather read a story about action and adventure. I do feel like reading the informational books for studies and homework did help when I would read them to finish my school work, but thats only if I could make myself read through them. Usually I would just skim through the book rather than read it word for word to get the main idea.…
Which strategies do you like? As an educator, I think that anything can be implemented into the classroom as long that it is used for the purpose of learning. Every educator has a different way of teaching and implementing different methods. I would definitely implement the use of different manipulative.…
Reading is the base of every child’s education. A child has to learn to read to get through life. Reading is used in every subject of school and is even used after school. Since it is the base how teachers build on it is very important and can make or break a child’s education. A child who is taught to love reading will read more and will excel at more things.…