For strategy section V, I selected the strategy microelection because I believed this would best benefit Sophia because it is helpful when students are required to read long texts that contain significant amount of new information. Since Sophia is so advanced in the EL program, I believed that choosing strategies such as microelection would best benefit her in the classroom. This strategy highlights the ability to find key words in individual sentences, which students need to have when finding the main idea in a longer reading passage.
3. Before implementing this strategy into my lesson, I would explain the importance of understanding the meanings of significant words in a sentence in order to understand the sentence as a whole. While I implemented this strategy into my lesson, I would make Sophia stop reading and I would ask her to go back and …show more content…
If I was to use this strategy again, one modification I would make is providing more diverse informational passages for her to read. Instead of just having her read mostly fictional short stores, I would use passages about other subjects such as science and history. By doing this, I would be expanding her vocabulary of the different key terms she would have to identify within the passage. I believe it is important to incorporate as many different subjects into reading as possible, especially subjects like science or math, which are not given the a lot of time to teach in schools. Since Sophia is advanced in the EL program, I believe this would be more challenging for her by asking to her read passage concerned with science or history and having to identify key terms and explain the definition if possible. Another modification I could make if I were to use this strategy again is to have Sophia identify the important words in the passage that would help her figure out the main idea, however if she was unsure of the definition, I would have her look it up in the dictionary which would get her use to navigating a
3. Before implementing this strategy into my lesson, I would explain the importance of understanding the meanings of significant words in a sentence in order to understand the sentence as a whole. While I implemented this strategy into my lesson, I would make Sophia stop reading and I would ask her to go back and …show more content…
If I was to use this strategy again, one modification I would make is providing more diverse informational passages for her to read. Instead of just having her read mostly fictional short stores, I would use passages about other subjects such as science and history. By doing this, I would be expanding her vocabulary of the different key terms she would have to identify within the passage. I believe it is important to incorporate as many different subjects into reading as possible, especially subjects like science or math, which are not given the a lot of time to teach in schools. Since Sophia is advanced in the EL program, I believe this would be more challenging for her by asking to her read passage concerned with science or history and having to identify key terms and explain the definition if possible. Another modification I could make if I were to use this strategy again is to have Sophia identify the important words in the passage that would help her figure out the main idea, however if she was unsure of the definition, I would have her look it up in the dictionary which would get her use to navigating a