The child that I tested for the PLS-5 Test was a four-year-old girl named Katelyn. Katelyn did pretty well for her chronological age, and she tested into the age equivalence bracket of four to seven years old. She is a very bright girl, although there are some weaker areas that she struggled with. Her focus on the test also varied throughout the test. At the beginning of the test, she was focused on the test and answered the questions quickly, but towards the end of the test session, she was…
Some activities of this stage are predicting from words, which consists on showing the students a word from the text in order to make them predict what the text is going to be about; predicting from title or first sentence, during this activity, the teacher writes the title or first sentence of the text they are going to read on the board in order to make predictions about what it is going to be about; predicting from a key illustration, which is basically show the students a illustration…
Gabriela M. Santiago Michael Vaughan English 1020 30 October 2016 The Story of an Hour When reading about “The Story of an Hour” we can agree that there are multiple positions regarding Mrs. Mallard’s reaction to her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard, a woman suffering from a heart condition is notified about her husband’s death in a car accident. Positions, such as a woman being repressed, or being in a male-dominant society, could be possible positions for the expectations during that century.…
boards. On the top of the boards, she asked her students to place six manipulatives from the word problem. On the bottom of the board, there was space for students to write their pictorial model. In another space, she asked them to write the number sentence. I believe the use of time to pass out the manipulatives and boards took too long. She passed two bins with the two different types of manipulatives in the middle of the circle and asked students to go pick their manipulatives. I think she…
demonstrate how she treats “centering” as a never-ending journey rather than a destination to be reached. The title, “Centering”, is one word foreshadowing the theme of becoming “one with oneself.” Throughout the article, the use of run-on, prolonged sentences and verbosity can be read as mirroring Richards’ conceptualization of the process of “centering”; that it goes on longer than…
areas for me I have to be able to communicate and do it academically correct. I do not want to be looked at like a fool for not being able to write correctly in the professional world. Nobody wants to have a nurse that doesn’t know how to write a sentence or paragraph. We want our nurses to have the skills and education to know what they are talking about in words and on paper. I do look at writing completely different now, and I see more importance in writing than I did before this class.…
So I finally settled on the poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver. The overall theme of the poem has the meaning of nature and finding one’s self. I found this poem to be enticing because the whole idea of figuring out who you are is the epitome of life and a crucial part of everyone’s lives. Oliver begins the poem with three rhetorical questions. These questions increase in specific detail order. The first question surprises the reader because the answer is obvious. This introduces another…
Dimension: Quality of Feedback Focus of dimension: Assesses the degree to which the teacher provides feedback that expands learning and understanding and encourages continued participation. Summary of strengths: Scaffolding: There were a few examples of teachers providing children with the necessary help to allow them to succeed or complete a task. For example, a child was having difficulty opening up a cheese wrapper. The teachers provided assistance by giving verbal (push it up, hold it…
It starts out with Hummel reflecting on when she stopped believing in Heaven. The first two sentences allow us to see that Maria once believed in heaven, but no longer does, and she is not sure when this transformation occurred. Then it changes and Hummel talks explicitly about why she lost faith in Heaven. She starts off by explaining that she…
The key parties are George, John, the customers, the owner of the car parts store, and John’s family. George is one of the key parties and what George has at stake is his friendship with John if George chooses to confront John resulting in a conflict if John chooses not to heed George’s advice. George will then have to face the difficult decision if he is unable to persuade John to listen, to be a “rat” and tell the owner/other managers or authorities about what John is doing since it is illegal…