It is an excellent resource for modelling literacy strategies. Other resources and prop used in the lesson are helpful on children 's learning. The Costumes, a diagram of the flea life cycle and onomatopoeia and picture matching cards gives the visual cues and create interest in the lesson (McDonald, 2013). The free written task assists with children 's writing skill, and it enables children to express their imagination, creativity, interpretation and values. The written task also affords teacher a concrete evidence to analyse children 's learning in English.…
Environment Poem Unit 3: Analyze to Understand (Criteria B and C) Using proper poetry conventions, figurative language, sensory detail and imagery, describe an environment that you enjoy. This can be a place you visit, a place you call “home”—anything. When someone else reads this piece, you are going to attempt to use your description to put the person right there with you. Level 7-8…
This book talks about a fun-filled day of pumpkin picking at the local pumpkin field on a beautiful autumn afternoon with family and friends. All the vocabs are very easy to read and understand. So children are able to read it alone. The plot supports a lot the art in this book. For example, it talks about how the pumpkins grow in rows.…
I chose to record a 25-minute whole group, English Language Arts lesson that focused on the 7-Steps Vocabulary strategy and Sentence Frames. This lesson focused on two selected terms (play and dip) from the targeted story “Pig in a Wig.” As I began the lesson, I activated students’ prior knowledge by asking students if they remembered the two words that they learned the previous week. Students were able to recall the terms and their definition and were able to remember the way those words were introduced to them. I began explaining to students that they would be introduced to two new words from a new story we would begin reading the following day.…
Why Students Should be Involved in Performing Arts Classes Imagine, being on a stage with the brightest lights cascading only on you. It is now time for your solo, the one you have spent over a month perfecting, the one that is irrevocably perfect. Millions of judging eyes puncture the slightest ounce of confidence you have left. All you can think about what mistakes you’ve made and which mistakes are bound to happen. If only you took that Performing Arts course when you were younger.…
“In order to innovate, you must play with fire”, Tony award winning director, Julie Taymor, often expresses. To make something new and create, one must be willing to play with the unknown. To do what is dangerous and expose himself or herself truthfully for the sake of play. As an actor, there must always be this curiosity to play with fire and do what is unexpected not only to the audience member, but the actor as well. This risk is the most difficult challenge to any artist for they must harness courage within themselves to go into the unknown and reap the benefits of their adventure.…
I appreciate your email response to my previous letter to you in regards of the ongoing drama program under your watch at bridge Academy. I would have expected you to understand that a written response was expected from you given the seriousness of our concern as parents. I will also like you to understand that this is not about Yomi; rather it is about the concept of using this controversial piece of 1920 O'Neil's work as a drama for 13 years old children in the year 2016. It is also about the credibility that Bridge Academy has built and deserve for quite long time as a diverse educational institution which is the motivation behind every parent that choose Bridge Academy as their first choice all the time. This is not the first time Yomi is taking part in the school activities including Drama, we welcome and encourage his participation and we also understand the needs to study expressionism in drama, human rights and responsible leadership in Drama.…
Learning literacy in specific content areas is a significant facet of education. The importance of literacy came as a shock as I read through this chapter. I’ve always understood that literacy is imperative to our daily lives, but have never considered…
Stephen King once said, “We never know which lives we influence, or even when, or why.” This quote rings true for Vanessa Perrault, who maintains that the influence that she has been able to have on numerous students over the last six years is the primary reason that she still teaches. I met Vanessa for the first time in my sophomore year. At that time, she was working at Franklin Towne Charter High School in Philadelphia and was the director of the musicals at Saint Hubert Catholic High School for Girls, her alma mater, and the place where I would audition for their school musical. One of the reasons that I had decided to audition at Saint Hubert was because I had heard glowing reports from those who had previously acted under her.…
While speaking at a Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference in 2006; Sir Ken Robinson, a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts, spoke on the importance of human creativity in a world of uncertain future. Sir Robinson states that education, creativity, and literacy should be considered as equal. Therefore, meaning degrees in the arts should have the same equal value as degrees in the sciences. Sir Robinson uses the story of a young girl who is drawing a picture of God when she was informed that no one knew what God looked like. The girl replied, “They will in a minute.”…
In his article, Writing for Teachers, Peter Elbow talks about the many difficulties a student faces when writing for a teacher, and also the obstacles that both the parties involved must overcome. Elbow points out that students are often asked to write for the teacher but are supposed to address a general audience – “a creature blessed by intelligence, a certain amount of education (“general”), and an open mind”, but one whom they have no information about. They are rarely ever told the specifics of the audience, such as its opinion on the topic, the age group, the setting in which the audience might be reading, or any other specifics which would help them formulate a strong argument. Additionally the assignment is never really to persuade…
Observing a child’s dramatic play is one of the best methods to obtain a genuine knowledge of how a child relates to and understands the world around them. This particular learning center allows children to demonstrate their skills in many different areas of development. In this activity, the focus is on language development, letting the child express what they have learned through their lived experiences (tactile). The Dramatic Play area provides children a secure environment where they can become aware of how the world works, act out a variety of roles, and gain a greater understanding of their own roles and interests.…
Theme 1: Creating an enjoyable and stimulating learning environment for all One major area where my philosophy didn’t quite match up with my experience on placement was creating an enjoyable and stimulating learning environment for all due to the various aspects that feed into teaching and learning. There have been a number of incidences that have stood out, both for positive and negative reasons. My critical reflection (appendix b) related to low level disruption and drew upon one particular incident to highlight the issue. But for the purpose of this essay I will focus on a different issue. Within placement the year eleven sit their GCSE RE exam a year early so have already completed a GCSE course.…
Throughout the past few weeks of Studies in English Education, the main aspect that has been addressed is the term ‘multiliteracies.’ From completing this portfolio and attending each of the workshops, I have learned that to become a text producer I need to be involved with the variety of functions in language and literacy. Hill (2012) states that ‘to be multiliterate means to be literate in print-based and new communication technologies’ (p. 361). Such technologies include ‘electronic literacies, technoliteracies, digital literacies, visual literacies and print-based literacies’ (Hill 2012, p. 361).…
Reading is a “conscious and unconscious thinking process” (Mikulecky, 2008, p. 1) in which several reading strategies need to be applied in order to have a better understanding of a particular text. In order to make this understanding happen, the reader has to compare the information that is presented in the text and connect it with the schemata he or she has (Mikulecky,2008). In order to teach students to read in an effective way, teachers need to make the use of interactive lessons which will allow students to activate their schemata, provide them opportunities to talk about what they comprehended from the text. At the same time, teachers need to make students aware of the benefits of reading extensively (developing…