Literacy Classroom Observation

When I met with my host teacher Miss. S, I was able to observe her class during their literacy times. In her class she has twenty three students, ten boys and thirteen girls. Of the twenty three students, two of the students are ELL, two have special needs services, two have ADHD and one of the two is on the autism spectrum, five students have reading intervention, and three are in speech. We talked about the different techniques for teaching words that she uses with her students.

After I observed her literacy block we looked over the different techniques and she pointed out to me that techniques she uses are; crossword puzzles, pictorial maps, labeling, word sorts, and possible sentences. During the literacy block I was able to observe the students using a web organizer for the word “setting” from the story that they listened to. As a class, Miss. S. asked her students what other setting there were in the story and together they filled out the web, and talked about the different settings. I

S. follows the Common Core Standards (n.d.), and the program for reading is called, Ready Gen. For speaking and writing activities, Miss. S., has her students turn and talk about a question to see what kind of answers the students have to say to each other. This is a good way for the students to see what their classmates have to say and a good way for them to interact with each other. This teaches the students that they have to take turns when talking and listen to the speaker. Miss. S., also uses frame words and the students have to write a sentence about the word that is in the frame. She will also have her students write about a word or topic in their notebook using, words, pictures, and sentences. For the English Language Learners in Miss. S. classroom she does a lot of modeling with webs and pictures. This way the students are able to see the words and the spelling, and they are able to see what pictures go with what