Intermediate Literacy Reflection

Building upon prior knowledge with new knowledge in hopes of deeper understanding influences the depth of understanding and its relevancy. Reflecting on this course has brought that deeper understanding of the intermediate literacy learner and their ability to decipher information through text and composing in written form. As I continue with my professional development, this course has given me the foundation needed to reach intermediate grade literacy learners by exposing them to a balanced literacy program allowing for their growth in reasoning, organizational, and application skills. Learning about literacy in grades four through six and expecting student growth was no surprise however, the growth that transpired from this educator was. Until this course …show more content…
The close reading lesson was beneficial for my intermediate literacy reader and writer as her met cognitional awareness of gathering information and organizing facts for reasoning was assisted by note taking, highlighting key details, and finding vocabulary meaning using clues in context. This literacy learner’s ability afforded her a smooth transition into another academic content area, science, as hurricane facts turned into cause and effect reasoning. Working with the intermediate level literacy learner allowed me to instill the need for fact-finding, which in turn allows for reasoning and critical thought. This is vital, as her exposure to more information from different mediums will have to be analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated as noted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) (2014b). The intermediate literacy learner is far from the learner who relied on pictures for text comprehension. Now with skill sets to assist in comprehension, this literacy learner expects text to be challenging, insightful, and relevant, which is insightful to me as a literacy