Before reading the textbooks, completing the discussion boards, workshops, and projects of READ 3356, I had never taken into consideration the vast range of connections between literacy and content areas in educating children. Literacy has been a universal theme throughout my undergraduate courses at Tarleton; yet, none discussed the importance of integrating literacy into content area instruction. Consequently, several new ideas about content literacy were processed throughout this course. Therefore, because so many students struggle with comprehension in content areas, the three new ideas that will be the most helpful for me as a teacher are evaluating a textbook/readability and the tools for measuring it, vocabulary building, and classroom strategies.
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Completing workshop 5.2 aided in learning how to gain knowledge on how to find suitable materials for my students at their reading level for a better understanding. Using the Fry Readability Graph formulae to measure readability will assist me in the future classroom by helping me check the readability of various texts to insure that it is meets ESL students’ requirements and reading skills. Additionally, I believe that using this measurement system will help me improve reading skills of students that struggle with the English language as a whole. In addition, learning about readability helped to evaluate a textbook which a teacher may use in the classroom. The Strategy Notebook project helped me realize that there is much more to choosing a textbook than picking one out and distributing it to the class. This strategy will help me in my future classroom because I will know what to look for in textbook. I will know how to analyze a text for aspects that go beyond readability to help students better understand and learn the
Completing workshop 5.2 aided in learning how to gain knowledge on how to find suitable materials for my students at their reading level for a better understanding. Using the Fry Readability Graph formulae to measure readability will assist me in the future classroom by helping me check the readability of various texts to insure that it is meets ESL students’ requirements and reading skills. Additionally, I believe that using this measurement system will help me improve reading skills of students that struggle with the English language as a whole. In addition, learning about readability helped to evaluate a textbook which a teacher may use in the classroom. The Strategy Notebook project helped me realize that there is much more to choosing a textbook than picking one out and distributing it to the class. This strategy will help me in my future classroom because I will know what to look for in textbook. I will know how to analyze a text for aspects that go beyond readability to help students better understand and learn the