Other studies have shown that there can be a negative impact when the teacher or caregiver uses strategies that are less than ideal. It is not enough to just read with your child. How you interact with them as you read is important. Do they like you to read to them? What conversations do you have with your child as you read?…
Weekly e-Journal # 6 Vogt & Shearer Chapter 10 and Bean Chapter 8 integrate the foundational guidelines for a reading specialist/literacy coach to know possible ways to develop a literacy program. Bean's orientation for reading specialist leads to provide guidelines for planning literacy programs for schools or districts; these guidelines encompass the awareness of possible problems of difficulties that the we can find when we develop this kind of programs, the knowledge of what effective schools do in terms of developing programs, and a possible framework to develop literacy programs. Additionally to Bean's points, Vogt & Sheare provide a clear framework for selecting and evaluating instructional and technological materials for literacy programs.…
This portfolio is a representation of the observations completed for the class M464 – Methods of Teaching Reading taught by Dr. Hope Smith Davis. These observations have been conducted and recorded by Joshua Lindsey, a teacher candidate at Indiana University South Bend during the spring semester of 2017. These observations give prospective teachers a chance to be immersed in a content-area classroom and to witness day-to-day operations within the secondary classroom as they occur. While these observations were sparse (one class period a week), teacher candidates were able to observe the same classroom and the same group of students which gave a sense of fluidity when it came to viewing the evolution of a particular classroom during a seven-week…
The CORE addresses the misconceptions, such as fluency skills developed through independent silent reading. Contrary to traditional approaches to fluency instruction, the manual reinforces modeling reading strategies for students through teacher assisted readings. One example of modeling is as stated “Research has shown that repeated and monitored oral reading, improves fluency and overall reading achievement” (Diamond & Gutlohn, 2000, pp.363). The repeated oral reading strategy gives students the opportunity to reengage with the text, which fosters the development of fluency skills. In addition, repeated reading can be performed in a various ways, such as teacher assisted reading, peer assisted reading and choral read alouds.…
In my classroom, I normally follow 2010 National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling’s close reading strategies. Over time, I have modified it to meet the needs of my students. While reading, students are doing three basic things: making observations, noting patterns, and drawing conclusions. However, just giving students a poem and asking them to read and highlight can go terribly wrong.…
In “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt, he explains his experience in school, as a student. He argues how reading and/or English should be fun, exciting, and adventurous. I agree with John Holt but you have to read the books that the school gives you. As a kid I did not really like when the teacher called me to read out loud, I preferred the teacher reading it to us.…
I attended Pi Beta Phi Elementary School from kindergarten through eighth grade. Through my time there, I learned many things which still influence my life today. My experiences during my nine years as a mountaineer influenced my knowledge, gratitude for my surroundings, and my appreciating for the people in my life. As a kindergartener, Mrs. Kathy taught me how to read, and as a sixth grader, I took AR tests in Mrs. Smith’s class over the entire Harry Potter series.…
The National Curriculum (2014) and the impact it can have on teaching pupils Literacy In Primary Education, teachers are responsible for ensuring pupils reach age – related expectations which are noted in the National Curriculum (NC) (2014). The NC provides statutory and non – statutory guidance for every subject including English which assists teachers. The purpose of the programmes of study in the NC is for teachers to understand what pupils need to learn and helps teachers to plan effective lessons. The NC covers aims which include the teacher’s responsibilities to: “Promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken word and written word, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment” (DfE, 2014: 13). The aims also comprise conventional literacy skills which the National Early Literacy Panel…
Reading Pages Reading the pages was very useful. I would get to know about the story. it was reading through pages. It helped me learn more about the story.…
Personal Literacy Statement for Shannon Brasher While I don’t remember learning to read as a child, I do remember being forced to read books that I had no interest in. Not only was this not enjoyable as I was not interested in the book, often times they were considered old classics like Shakespeare which were hard for me to comprehend what I was reading. This lead not only to frustration but I would quit reading the book which caused me to miss out on whatever the teacher was trying to teach. As a teacher I would strive to promote a love of reading in my students by allowing them to choose what they read from a selection of books.…
In Dr. Cook’s Materials for Teaching Reading, we learned effective ways to give a read aloud. In many of my language arts lessons, I had to read aloud a text to the student. Also, every day after lunch I would read a chapter from a Ready Freddy book to the students. We learned to introduce the book to the students and to mention the title, author, and illustrator. When I would do a read a loud in my language arts lesson I would always do this, the students were very interested to hear this about the book we were reading.…
After learning about literacy i discovered the benefits of using Read Alouds within the classroom. It was encouraging to discover how the Read Aloud assisted in the level of comprehension students…
You see literacy much more frequently in math now. The Common Core requires the students to be able to example how they came to answer using words along with the correct math equations and steps. With the enchantments of literacy in math, came improvement of literacy in English Language Arts. The teacher candidate observed a “Literacy Block” every week in her classroom.…
“How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” is a personal memoir of John Holt’s recollections of being an English teacher. Holt remembers the times when he was the teacher that made children dissect books until their minds no longer held the real meaning of them. Their minds were drilled into finding the ‘correct’ answer and moving on as fast as possible. After multiple arguments with his sister telling him his approach to teaching reading was wrong and hurting the children's love for reading, he slowly started to listen. In his memoir, Holt shows growth of being a dynamic character and his ways of teaching change alongside him.…
But it wasn’t until I stepped into Mrs. Estelle Barber’s Fourth Grade classroom at Bell Elementary School that I fell in love with learning. She didn’t teach from a book but from an array of hands on activities, many of which I incorporate each year into my own classroom. Thinking back, Mrs. Barber provided me with my first teaching job. A neighborhood friend needed help in reading so Mrs. Barber ask me to work with her. After a month, my classmate was reading fluently so my job ended.…