This material was very detailed and gave a play by play as to how the material should be read. It also gave students the opportunity to use higher order thinking. It gave students the opportunity to explore various medias and also halped students to gain more information out of the text by having activities all through the book in order to help them expand their knowledge. This article also expresses that teachers model for the students what they should be doing. This article also focuses on the importance of helping students distinguish on their own vocabulary words and the word meaning based off the text of other methods. The articles also stresses the idea of helping students focus on text structure within the text and identifying those concepts.
Double Entry September 30, 2009
This article is a new way to introduce a topic and assess student work. This gives students to pick out inportant texts and then to sate what they think about that particular piece of work.This can also allow the teacher to help lead them in a correct path to finding important information within the text. This is an easy thing for the students to do and requires little teacher assistance. This could give the teacher time to work one on one with students that may need that extra time.
Brown Article September 30, 2009
This article focuses on the importance of spelling lists within the classrom. It is important to have tests taht appropriate for the grade level in which you are teaching and to make sure that the words follow the patterns that will most help students. As stated in class spelling books do not change over time the words are still the same and only activities seem to change from year to year. It is important to know what level our students are own before we give them a list that is to hard or vis versa. AS a future teacher I should strive to do what is best for my students and lend them a hand in any way that I can.
Fisher Article September 29, 2009
This article was very informative and gave good information about strategies to use in the classroom. I had the opportunity to see some of these strategies carried out in a classroom during block one. the teacher used a big book and it seemed to really help the students comprehend of course they were on a K-1 level but the technique was still very effective for that age level. As a future teacher it is important for me to use techniques that are going to be most beneficial to my students and make my job easier. If I have to teach them certain things why not teach them on a level that they will understand and make it easier for me so I don’t have to continue to do the same thing and them not comprehend. As a future teacher I should model what will best suit children in my classroom.
Workshop September 21, 2009
The Internet workshop was very informative and showed how easy it is to be misinformed. There are many ways of finding out how things came to be the trick is finding out what is the truth and what is false. The workshop also had lots of links and information and all sites that seemed to be very good sites just very different in the information in which they provided. It is important as educators to understand that information on the Internet is not always true and there should be research and sites found on the teacher’s part in order for students to get the facets instead of false information. As we go through this unit i think it will be evident how we can find resources that are helpful and resources that are not so helpful. This was a good exercise and very beneficial to be aware of.
Pirates! September 15, 2009
These two articles are very informative. I like that this unit is integral and incorporates multiple standards and subject areas. The unit also discusses the who, what, when, where, how, and why which is a great thing to have students focus on and gain the knowledge how how to disect a piece of literature. This can also help with student writing and help them to know what they need to put in their writing to make it the best that their writing can be. The pairing of the text is also a great way to get students to comprehend the differences in a variety of litrature and be able to clasify text when they read it. This can also help them to know what is a good internet resource and what is not a reliable source. this unit seems to cover alot of bases and can be very useful in any classroom.
Sunshine!!! September 9, 2009
So much depends upon an
early ray of sunshine.
Its gentle, bright warm touch
encourages me to escape my dreamland.
Engaging on a new and exciting journey.
Love that Dog! September 9, 2009
This book was very creative and inventive. This book was nothing like I expected it to be. I never thought that a poet would write about a child that was struggling and the many many attempts that he made before he ever wrote his first poem. This book is perfect for the classroom in that it shows how that it is not easy and sometimes a poem will not be created the first time you try, or the next but eventually anyone can create their own poem. This book also shows that it is okay to borrow from others to create what you are trying to create. Sometimes when you take a piece of work it is not stealing it used as an inspiration for you in your personal writing.
Brown Angels…. September 9, 2009
This book of poetry was my favorite with all the many photos along with the poems. My grandmother has pictues of the time period from which most of these photos come from and the poetry reminded me so much of her and how that I miss her so. I especially liked the poem “Pretty Little Black Girl” this poem just talked of even the variety of color even among African Americans and what they consider the color of their skin to be. I think that the time period for which this is written color was a big issue and probably these poems raised that issue.This book is also written from an African American and gives a different point of view which is always good to have in the classroom.
All the Small Poems September 9, 2009
This book of poetry was very simplistic and talked of everyday things. I really enjoyed all the little everyday things that the author herself made come to life and have true character. The objects as she described them just seemed to come off the page and leap at you with all that they were. Children could read this book and be encouraged because the words do not always rhyme and the poems are also short and meaningful to the poet to which wrote them. It is important for students to understand that they do not have to have poetry that meets certain criteria that sometimes it breaks all the so called rules and is just a poem because they said that it was. This book is a very good basis to get students excited about poetry and to intrigue their knowledge.
