Orthography

On Monday for Literacy, I taught children the letter Yy. We came up with words starting with Yy, traced the letter Yy, and read My Yy Book. Tuesday, I taught children how to write a personal narrative story. The story discussed what the children did for Thanksgiving. I showed them a story of my trip to Ohio. We added details, finger spaces, and sounded out our words. Children drew pictures to match their sentences. Wednesday, I went to observe a full-day Kindergarten class at Ponderosa…

I can remember learning to read as early as kindergarten, but before that, I was able to memorize repetitive words in children’s book or words that were a sing along. My mother taught me how to read. She would act out the words in the sentence like a scene in a movie. At first I wanted only to look at the pictures because the images conveyed so much meaning. I would take time to stare at the illustrations so I could try to determine what the sentence on the page was about, but my vocabulary was…

At the end of the first semester, I set two goals that I wanted to accomplish throughout the second semester. The first goal was to make my essays stronger by not writing so much, and to create sentences that weren’t too wordy and more meaningful. My second goal was to enhance my vocabulary and not be so redundant. To achieve my first writing goal, I reread my essays multiple times checking to see if I could get rid of any unnecessary words . Rereading my work also went along with my second goal…

The impact that Literacy has had on me, made me the person I am today. When I write or read I go into a different world, my mind and body go free. When I write I have the ability to say anything that pops to my head. Growing up my dad introduced me to poetry, he even had one of his poems published. My dad wrote a poem about me called “Little Man”. I often think to myself as I sit in my room about becoming a writer, my dad always says you can accomplish anything you set your mind to, anything…

When I was young I was never the best at reading even though my parents owned many books and magazines that they read on a daily basis. My mother enjoyed reading her gossip magazines that she would receive in the mail once a month and my father had a whole bookshelf full of history books. My parents would always encourage me to read the books I would check out at the school library to improve my reading and writing but that advice usually went in through one ear and out the other. The only books…

On the fourth grade narrative writing assessment, Isaac scored 5 points out of a possible 20. He was scored on: Focus, Content, Organization, Style, and Conventions. The purpose and idea is slightly unclear in Isaac 's writing. It can be seen that the idea he is writing about is that he is thankful for his dad, however he was unable to provide purpose. The purpose is difficult to recognize because he was also unable to provide an introduction or a conclusion in his writing. Rather than writing…

When I look back at my writing experiences my memories are full of sweaty palms and anxiety attacks. Writing has never been a strong suit, I remember in fourth grade having to write a book, hand written with illustrations, my nightmare. In college my professor told me that my writing was so bad I would make a terrible teacher. Reading is a little more enjoyable than writing, I like reading books before I see the film version of the story. I am a mother now and I do not want my son to face the…

In Chapter five, defines phonemic awareness and phonics and how they are important to learning. But then there are certain drawbacks and benefits teaching those areas of reading. Phonics deals with children seeing the phonograms and how it relates to words instead of only the sounds. There are many types of phonics instruction two examples are analytic and synthetic phonics. There are many nationalities that make up the world especially the U.S. which the dominant is English and children who…

This CBM in writing is intended to record and measure each student progress. Each student were pull-out of their classroom into a resource classroom to take the assessment individually. All three students are age 8 and 9 years old and are in third grade and all are in an inclusive classroom. The topic that was chosen for this writing CBM was, “What is your favorite food, why it is your favorite, and when it id become your favorite food”? This topic was chosen because the students were in…

I have never been the strongest writer out of my peers, but I also have not been the weakest. I am weak in parts of my writing such as grammar, spelling and sentence construction. I am strong in other parts such as getting my ideas out there and getting written down. Reading was a way to get away from all the tragic events in my life; writing had helped me do the same. Though, I was not the best writer, it had taken me to a place that I could finally feel at peace. Usually, I am a closed off…