Reflective Essay On Language Experience

1) What were your primary (short term) goals for your student this week? How well do you feel they were accomplished? My primary goals this week were to work on getting to know Grace and getting her familiar with word sorts. I feel these goals were accomplished. I read books with Grace that were aligned with her interests and then we talked about the books, which helped me get to know Grace and helped her become more comfortable with me. I also did a word sort on Tuesday and Thursday with Grace. This helped her understand how to do word sorts, which she picked up quickly and was able to do on her own.
2) What went well this week? The word sorts we played went well. Grace had never done a word sort before, but she picked up the concept of how …show more content…
Briefly describe a plan for improvement. I tried to do a language experience approach strategy with Grace. I started with a story that we read together. We then discussed the book and how the experience in the book related to her. After we discussed the experience I wrote what Grace dictated to me to model how to write. We then read together the text we had written as I pointed to each word. Grace then read the writing alone. I started the language experience approach strategy well, but then I forgot what I should do next. This is where I need improvement. I read the article again on language experience approach and read that I needed to extend the writing and reading experience by having Grace draw a picture to go with our writing. I also should have used our writing to look for familiar words or sounds we were working on. Lastly, I should have written the sentences on sentence strips and had Grace read and sequence the sentences strips. To make this strategy better for future lessons, I will have Grace draw a picture to go with our writing, I will use our writing to work on skills we are working on in reading and writing, and I will make sentence strips to be used to practice reading and sequencing