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My literacy lesson was created for a first grade class. The standard for this lesson was RL.1.4 - Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. This lesson was all about learning to use illustrations and words and phrases from a text to be able to identify different feelings within a story. The book My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother by Patricia Polacco was used to guide the lesson. The main activity involved students matching illustrations from the story to different words that describe feelings such as happy, cheerful, mad, angry, silly, goofy etc.
A strength from my lesson was the introduction. The introduction consisted of asking students how they were feeling today and why. I provided my
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Modeling the activity was a great strength I had within my lesson. I demonstrated to students exactly what had to be done and talked through it, giving direct examples. This was a strength because when you model for students exactly how the activity should be completed, it will lead to a higher level of success. On note for improvement, however, is making the images that I used for the demonstration larger. I need to make sure that the demonstration is visible for all students. Another strength of the activity was providing positive reinforcements to all my students. This is indeed a strength because praise motivates students. When students are motivated they work better. One way in which I did not provide a positive reinforcement is when I called out a student for not following directions. Instead of calling out students individually, I should have repeated directions to the entire class. This would have prevented the student from feeling targeted. In addition, if any other students made the same mistake, they would have heard the directions all over …show more content…
The closing was a strength because I end in a way that shows how relevant the lesson is to real life. I bring the entire lesson together by asking why illustrations and words in a story are important. I then relate it to real life by stating “Illustrations are like our facial expressions and gestures, they can show people how we are feelings. On the other hand, words and phrases are like our behaviors and tone of voice, which also are other ways to tell people how we are feeling, similar to stories. Overall, my lesson had many strengths and points of improvements. I think the lesson as a whole was coherent and relevant to students. Many of my points of improvement are minor, but significant to enhance the lesson. After analyzing, my lesson and evaluating myself, I will make the necessary changes in order to be prepared for the field, and present an incredible lesson to a first grade
My literacy journey commenced at a young age. My story begins with the typical bed time stories and slowly progresses into complex novels. Some points in my literacy journey have made me admire the written word but other times literacy frustrated me. These ups and downs within my story have made me the person I am today. My parents noticed that my reading was not up to par with other children in kindergarten and I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia at the age of five. My parents provided me a reading mentor named Mrs. Mandeville who has shaped my literacy journey in many ways. Events in my childhood have shaped my literacy in various ways.
The teacher,presentation, and overall enthusiasm helped as well because without it all of the students motivation would have fallen off.
As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
Literacy embraces reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Integrating all of these into a literacy program is key. Teachers must provide endless and ongoing opportunities for their student to read, write, listen, and speak.
My relationship with literacy began when I started elementary school and that was the first starting point of my positive relationship with literacy. I really started to grow as a reader and writer throughout my middle school and high school years. Throughout my years of going to school I had many positive experiences that shaped my view of literacy today. My literacy skills have also enhanced throughout my educational years.
At one point, for instance 4 minutes 3 seconds into clip 1, the class was getting a bit noisy and I tried to talk over them. Instead, I should have tried a method the teacher uses, such as clapping or closing the lights. It is important to never try to talk over the class or compete with them. At 2 minutes and 38 seconds in clip 2, I began to distribute the graphic organizers and send the students back to their groups to work with their partner. At this point, I noticed I was a bit unorganized and this could have gone smoother. When I was distributing the papers the class was getting chatty and impatient. For future lessons, I plan to do this differently. Perhaps, I could have a paper monitor hand out the papers or could have the students line up and take one. I will also work on giving perfectly clear directions to ensure all of my students are on task and understand. Next time, I will ask a student to repeat my instructions after I have given them to ensure they were listening and are ready to move on. For example, in clip 1 at 2 minutes and 19 seconds, I asked, “Did everyone hear what he read for us?” Next time, I will ask a student to repeat what was actually said. Another thing I would do is work a little bit more with the weekend motivation I began my lesson with. After I retold the class my weekend, I could have worked a little bit more with that example at about 40 seconds into clip 1. Next time, I will ask the class to turn and talk quickly to their partner and retell them their own weekends in order using details. This gives the students a chance to interact with their peers while retelling and personalizing the information. Also, I would enforce sequencing vocabulary a bit more in the responses on the graphic organizer. The organizer was broken up into columns labeled beginning, middle, and end. In the columns I feel it would be better if there was more
I feel that one of my greatest strengths as a teacher is the ability to
Student A is a 2nd grader and does not have much interest in reading. She told me that her mom rarely reads to her because she doesn’t have the time. She also said that she just wants to be a mom, so she doesn’t need to know how to read. She told me she likes little kids, so I told her she should be a teacher, but she said that would be too much work. Student A is not interested in reading, is not motivated to read at home, and doesn’t see the importance of reading. During literacy activities she hardly ever participates, she doesn’t pay attention to what the teacher is saying or doing, and does not follow along with the class during reading activities. When doing research for an animal book, Student A had a hard time finding information on
I realized that what you’re teaching is not always the most important part of your classroom. The environment you provide for your students can make or break your classroom. Every single thing you do as a teacher has an impact on your students from asking about their home life to telling them if they don’t pass a test they will fail. Also, I learned that your strategies and the environment you provide go hand and hand. Students will not be able to learn without both working
In our schools today, literacy should not just be a task for the English or Reading teacher. Instead, literacy should be a shared venture by all teachers within all content areas. Teaching literacy in all content areas is important because a teacher with a solid understanding of teaching literacy in his/her content area will tremendously help all students achieve greater success on class assignments and standardized assessments. There are three main points that surround the idea of teaching literacy in all content areas. Teachers need the necessary skills and knowledge to teach literacy, once the necessary skills and knowledge are gained then there is justification for teaching literacy across content areas, and
“While it is true that more books are sold today than ever, recent statistics show that only about 15% of books bought today are read. Evidently, they are of more use as furniture—coffee-table books—than as a source of information or aesthetic buzz. The statistics continue; of those that are read, less than 20% are read all the way through. The unfinished book symbolizes the state of attention spans today”. Eric McLuhan opens up his 2010 argument against technology with this quote. He seems to believe that literacy is only fully achieved through limited technology and hard copies of books. He fails to realize there is more to literacy that picking up a book defined as a ‘classic’ and reading it cover to cover. Literacy covers all spans of artistic
The one aspect that through me off a bit was, grouping the students. When planned out the lesson, I planned out the grouping for all of the students and when a few were absent, I had a difficult time adjusting. It took me a minute, but eventually I figured it out. I have also been trying to work on direction, so what I have started to do is incorporate the instruction into my presentation. I will also go around give individual instruction, which works out well since some of the students need more individual instruction. This also allows for me to check student work and give feedback, and interact more with the
This being my first year of teaching I feel there are so many things that I have learned, and have helped me too become a good teacher. Yet I have so much more to learn, I still believe that students have the ability to learn and as a teacher it is my job to find ways to help them to become the best person they can be. Through being a reflective teacher, using professionalism, respecting diversity and having collaboration and community connecting this can be accomplished. When I am having fun teaching the student will have learning that material, this will help them to be relaxed and engaged in that lesson. I feel it is important to connect what they are learning to things that they have experienced in the real-world.
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I feel one major thing I need to work on is how to effectively say everything I need to include. As I was teaching it, I remembered little small things that I needed to go back and readdress, which I felt made it the demonstration a bit choppy for the students. I also felt a bit discombobulated when I was starting the lesson and figured out that someone from the previous class had taken all of the tools we used for the first