My education course, “ED 451: Literacy within the Content Area”, highlighted the significant importance of reading and writing within literacy in regards to my own area of social studies education. Prior to the class, I understood that my students needed to comprehend …show more content…
Those skills are universal in the world of academia. They are used when students are reading a passage within the textbook or trying to provide a summary of a reading orally or written. As in Richardson’s Chapter 4, it states that comprehending to read leads to understanding the big ideas as well as understand the supporting information that leads up to the main ideas. (Richardson, 2009) So having students close read to understand key ideas and reread recognize the structure of the text to integrate the knowledge. Once this is mastered, then students are able to summarize the text or rephrase sections of a text when writing a research paper. Reading and writing skills go hand in hand with each other. Students need to comprehend this to enable them additional understanding and development of deeper levels of thinking that assist them when they come across new complex content …show more content…
The process is broken into I do (teacher modeling the strategy), we do (guided practice), and you do (students’ independent use of the strategy. This would be one of my stronger skills, since it a process I’ve thought of applying but through the activity of an in class debate. Although, now I know how to apply this strategy to content information. It can help my students take control of their learning especially if they come across a class where the teacher is not helping them excel. It is a growing process for the student as well as for the educators like myself. (Froemming, Lecture