This year I have the honor of spending my days with 24 five year just starting their literacy journey. The undertaking is a daunting task (thankfully I have an amazing classroom teacher leading the way), the standards in place for kindergarten students are high. Finding a balance between strategies that distill a text into identifying letters and producing letter sounds, and allowing the students to find delight in a book of their own choice is imperative. I am humbled daily by their fortitude and willingness to participate in the tasks necessary to become lifelong readers and writers. The pendulum swings between excitement and frustration during our ELA lessons, which leads me to reflect on my own literacy experiences, and wonder and hope that I can give them what they need.
My earliest reading experiences date back to times spent with family, mainly a group of cousins that I was close to for the majority of my childhood. My Grandmother was the matriarch of this brood who insisted we stay connected and spend time together as a family often. …show more content…
I spent five years working as a compliance officer in the finance industry. Every document I wrote was under review. I had to use concise language to correspond with clients, legal departments and financial administrators. This hindered my ability to make my writing descriptive. The next ten years were spent working in the digital media industry for a pregnancy and parenting website. Here I was tasked with weaving pages upon pages of member content into content that was yet again clear and concise. It had to be clickable and appeal to marketers. I enjoyed creating useful content that supported women during pregnancy and early stages of parenting, however, my writing process became streamlined due to deadlines and quick turnaround times for client requests. The topic also appealed to my preference to read fact based
My earliest reading experiences date back to times spent with family, mainly a group of cousins that I was close to for the majority of my childhood. My Grandmother was the matriarch of this brood who insisted we stay connected and spend time together as a family often. …show more content…
I spent five years working as a compliance officer in the finance industry. Every document I wrote was under review. I had to use concise language to correspond with clients, legal departments and financial administrators. This hindered my ability to make my writing descriptive. The next ten years were spent working in the digital media industry for a pregnancy and parenting website. Here I was tasked with weaving pages upon pages of member content into content that was yet again clear and concise. It had to be clickable and appeal to marketers. I enjoyed creating useful content that supported women during pregnancy and early stages of parenting, however, my writing process became streamlined due to deadlines and quick turnaround times for client requests. The topic also appealed to my preference to read fact based