Fiscal year

I walked up the steps, only to see several students scattered everywhere confused. It was loud, as I trudged through them to get to my locker. I had nothing organized and had no idea where any of my friends were. Standing there wishing summer wasn’t over. I didn’t know if I could handle the middle school. Slowly I turn myself around. There I was, a new sixth grader at Port Clinton Middle School terrified, yet hopeful. I was excited that I was finally in the middle school, but also extremely…

expect were that the teachers would be more strict and that the work would be more challenging than in sixth. Throughout the year I was able to get to know the teachers and learn that most were very nice and that I had nothing to worry about. The work was a little more challenging than in sixth but it’s supposed to be. One of the highlights of my seventh grade school year is that I played basketball. At the beginning of seventh grade I was able to play school basketball. I had an awesome time…

As I opened the book, a tiger attached to a boy with spiky blond hair bounced off the page, greeting me and the second grader sitting on the floor next to me. My finger touched the blank space right below the type, prompting Sawyer, my “Little Buddy,” to breathe the words on the page. He managed to choppily enunciate the words he saw, but the toothy smile he gave me when he was done reading the comic displayed a much deeper understanding than his initial speech had indicated. Quickly, I…

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We will take a few minor and major fieldtrips each year. These fieldtrips will consist of driving to neighborhoods where they can visually see success, going to local corporations so they can visualize who working class people are and the road stories of what it took to get them to their current place in life. Fieldtrips will be taken to different levels of restaurants to learn etiquette and dining at each level. We will visit companies based on the interests and outcomes of the…

My journey with literacy has been a part of my life and began before I even entered school. During my early days you would say I was a “repeater”. I repeated things that I would hear from my parents and people that were around me all the time. Some of them were good to say and some not so good to say. My parents always sat down and read to me. While growing up as well my parents worked a lot so my grandparents basically raised me by watching me in the morning and taking me to two by two,…

Once I was old enough to join my sisters at the Montessori school, I went there for my second year of pre-school. By the end of this year my oldest sister was in the fourth grade and my mom could not find a middle school with a strong enough education for her, so she decided to home school all three of us. During my kindergarten year as a true homeschooler my mom found a virtual school that would guide her through teaching us in a more effective way with a curriculum…

I became literate at a very young age around one or two years old and people could understand what I wanted. For example, bolitas (meant balls in Spanish) cooked beans and no bolitas was refried beans. I had a way of commutating with my family but sometimes I would forget what the word was and I used to describe the item itself. They would eventually understand what I mean. Unlike one of the cases in Deborah Brandt’s Sponsors of Literacy, I did not have a tutor or anything like that. However, I…

of Success for All showed an increase in students reading abilities and special education placement had declined. However, more current research shows that students receiving Success for All instruction are still reading anywhere from a month to a year behind their…

what I wanted to be in the future. I had also owned a journal entry where I would scribble down random thoughts and ideas, write all different kinds of stories and even poems. My first year of kindergarten came and like all kindergartner 's they look at that year has being full of fun, naps, and food. That is the year when children start learning all the basics of their reading and writing skills. Then first grade came, then second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifith grade, and finally…