Module 5 Application: Extension and Reflection
Samantha Wilsbach
American College of Education
Module 5 Application: Extension and Reflection Students have three main influences: school, family, and community, which can either positively or negatively affect their relationship with education (Elish-Piper & Lelko, 2012). To ensure that students are supported in their learning, these three influences must maintain communication. This is especially important during summer vacation when students struggle to retain the skills that they had previously mastered throughout the school year. According to Cooper, Nye, Charlton, and Greathouse (1996), “at best, students show little or no academic growth over the summer; and at worst, …show more content…
According to Shaywitz (2015), forty-three percent of Americans with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty. Since “language aids conceptual development, the development of a theory of mind, episodic memory development, and is the basis of working memory” (Goswami, 2015, p. 11), the ability to read texts is an important aspect of learning. Therefore, it is imperative that students not only learn to read and write, but learn to utilize various strategies to extrapolate information from text. One strategy that will increase student learning and influence reading comprehension is to teach metacognitive skills. Bonds and Bonds (1992) recognized “the relationship between metacognition and reading because good readers use words for information and read more strategically while poorer readers depend on contextual sources for meaning” (as cited in Hopper, Jayroe, & Franz, 2008, p. 7). To ensure that students become lifelong readers, they must be instructed on how to deepen their comprehension of …show more content…
Teachers model a strategy, then the class works through the strategy, and finally, the student demonstrates mastery by utilizing the strategy independently. This is often references as “I do, We do, You do” and utilizes Vygotsky’s Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (Schultz, 2017). Since learning takes place through social interactions (Goswami, 2015), when the learner is developmentally ready to acquire knowledge (Schultz, 2017), the completion of independent practice proves that students understand the concepts. Additionally, scaffolding and modelling allows the students to learn from the content at multiple opportunities which further supports genuine
Samantha Wilsbach
American College of Education
Module 5 Application: Extension and Reflection Students have three main influences: school, family, and community, which can either positively or negatively affect their relationship with education (Elish-Piper & Lelko, 2012). To ensure that students are supported in their learning, these three influences must maintain communication. This is especially important during summer vacation when students struggle to retain the skills that they had previously mastered throughout the school year. According to Cooper, Nye, Charlton, and Greathouse (1996), “at best, students show little or no academic growth over the summer; and at worst, …show more content…
According to Shaywitz (2015), forty-three percent of Americans with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty. Since “language aids conceptual development, the development of a theory of mind, episodic memory development, and is the basis of working memory” (Goswami, 2015, p. 11), the ability to read texts is an important aspect of learning. Therefore, it is imperative that students not only learn to read and write, but learn to utilize various strategies to extrapolate information from text. One strategy that will increase student learning and influence reading comprehension is to teach metacognitive skills. Bonds and Bonds (1992) recognized “the relationship between metacognition and reading because good readers use words for information and read more strategically while poorer readers depend on contextual sources for meaning” (as cited in Hopper, Jayroe, & Franz, 2008, p. 7). To ensure that students become lifelong readers, they must be instructed on how to deepen their comprehension of …show more content…
Teachers model a strategy, then the class works through the strategy, and finally, the student demonstrates mastery by utilizing the strategy independently. This is often references as “I do, We do, You do” and utilizes Vygotsky’s Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (Schultz, 2017). Since learning takes place through social interactions (Goswami, 2015), when the learner is developmentally ready to acquire knowledge (Schultz, 2017), the completion of independent practice proves that students understand the concepts. Additionally, scaffolding and modelling allows the students to learn from the content at multiple opportunities which further supports genuine