Thursday, July 30, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Blog #3
The reader response is a way to check for reader comprehension. It gives the teacher the ability to identify how well the student understood the text or story he/she read. As teachers we will use this effective tool when we engage our students in their daily reading activities or reading material in any given subject. One of the most popular ways to check for reading comprehension is to have students keep a reader’s response journal. Students can keep a reader’s response journal to write their thoughts, feeling, or connections to the subjects they read about. As teachers, we would be able to read these journals and make sure that their journal entries align with the reading subject matter covered.
Other ways to check for reading comprehension are:
Write a letter to the teacher
Compare and contrast characters, two books or texts, etc.
Create an alternate ending.
Create a book jacket.
Summarize a book
Write a letter to a character.
Make a puzzle depicting a scene or a character.
Create a poem about the text.
Create a crossword puzzle based on the story.
Make a cartoon of your favorite scene or an entire story.
Write a review.
Create a scrapbook.
My favorite book we read was My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston. I liked the idea of a teacher making an impact on many generations of students. I would read this to my students and explain to them that we all have an impact in someone’s life. I would also point out to my students that books permit us a way to travel to other places and times.
My least favorite book was The Amazing Bone by William Steigh. This book was too wordy. I did not like the way the story flowed. I felt that the story-line was choppy and disconnected.
Other ways to check for reading comprehension are:
Write a letter to the teacher
Compare and contrast characters, two books or texts, etc.
Create an alternate ending.
Create a book jacket.
Summarize a book
Write a letter to a character.
Make a puzzle depicting a scene or a character.
Create a poem about the text.
Create a crossword puzzle based on the story.
Make a cartoon of your favorite scene or an entire story.
Write a review.
Create a scrapbook.
My favorite book we read was My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston. I liked the idea of a teacher making an impact on many generations of students. I would read this to my students and explain to them that we all have an impact in someone’s life. I would also point out to my students that books permit us a way to travel to other places and times.
My least favorite book was The Amazing Bone by William Steigh. This book was too wordy. I did not like the way the story flowed. I felt that the story-line was choppy and disconnected.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Blog #2
This week’s classes were fun and entertaining. I can already see myself in the future using some of the strategies that I have learned from Dr. Harris. I think that a writing activity like “the grossest ice cream ever” will be a great one to use with the students as we start a lesson in creative writing. It was neat to think of things that would be gross. And as we all know, boys (and some girls too) get a kick out of thinking gross stuff to write about. This past year, I had a student, who shall remain nameless. J She loved to mix her food like chocolate milk with cheese broccoli and eat it!!!! This would gross the other kids out during lunch. My lovely and gross student would love to write on a topic like the one we used on Thursday. She would have probably loved to try the broccoli and fisheye ice cream we made in class. Overall, I love that we are really getting to have a hands-on experience by practicing some of the strategies that we will teach our children. I hope that when I get to be a teacher, I will be as excited as Dr. Harris about teaching.
The activity we are using to narrow our song choice is neat too. I found myself using it on my husband and son. We laughed and had fun trying to think of words that described us. We found out my son is adventurous and thrifty, my husband is obedient (or so he says), actually he is a dedicated and charismatic caretaker, and I am bossy and loving.
Five words that would describe me:
Bossy
Resourceful
Loving
Hard working
Patient
I am bossy, many may say,
But it’s only because I care so deeply
Once my love is shared.
The activity we are using to narrow our song choice is neat too. I found myself using it on my husband and son. We laughed and had fun trying to think of words that described us. We found out my son is adventurous and thrifty, my husband is obedient (or so he says), actually he is a dedicated and charismatic caretaker, and I am bossy and loving.
Five words that would describe me:
Bossy
Resourceful
Loving
Hard working
Patient
I am bossy, many may say,
But it’s only because I care so deeply
Once my love is shared.
Friday, July 10, 2009
EDRG 3344 Blog 1
So, far the first week of summer II has been pretty interesting. I have learned new things: How to blog...and some neat strategies from Dr. Harris that will be very helpful to me this coming 2009-2010 school year. The new things I have learned in this class will benefit my son Antonio, who will be a 4th grader this next year (we all know writing TAKS!) and my students that I tutor during the school year.
This class is building my schema on the aspects of reading and writing; it will also help me to be a better reading tutor to my kiddos at school. This new knowledge that I am gaining is giving me confidence to better help my tutoring students and my son. I have a deeper understanding of the reading process and the steps that help students better understand what they are reading. The first year that I tutored, I felt lost, because I was unsure of my skills as a tutor. As, my college education has progressed, so has my ability to aid my students.
Learning about the reading process gives me a better idea on how to approach the needs of my students. Dr. Harris mentioned several strategies, on how to break down the reading process and how to encourage the feedback of the students to check for understanding. I like the idea of having the students having grand conversations, they get to pause and discuss their comprehension of what they read as a group. This allows them to see each others point of view and gain new insights.
The writing process is all coming back to me now. It has been a long time since I had to pull that information from my file cabinet; and I have definitely added to to it this week. I really enjoy how Dr. Harris is changing my views of what the writing process is all about. I recall is as a boring and annoying thing that I had to do in my early years. She has given me a fresh start. I feel that writing can be a fun process, not just a cumbersome task I had to do as child. With this new beginning, I feel that I can make a similar impact on those students that will depend on me. I hope to make them feel that it is a neat and challenging journey to be enjoyed. Who know, maybe inspire a few to make a career out of it.
So needless to say, I hope to acquire more knowledge in the coming three weeks.
This class is building my schema on the aspects of reading and writing; it will also help me to be a better reading tutor to my kiddos at school. This new knowledge that I am gaining is giving me confidence to better help my tutoring students and my son. I have a deeper understanding of the reading process and the steps that help students better understand what they are reading. The first year that I tutored, I felt lost, because I was unsure of my skills as a tutor. As, my college education has progressed, so has my ability to aid my students.
Learning about the reading process gives me a better idea on how to approach the needs of my students. Dr. Harris mentioned several strategies, on how to break down the reading process and how to encourage the feedback of the students to check for understanding. I like the idea of having the students having grand conversations, they get to pause and discuss their comprehension of what they read as a group. This allows them to see each others point of view and gain new insights.
The writing process is all coming back to me now. It has been a long time since I had to pull that information from my file cabinet; and I have definitely added to to it this week. I really enjoy how Dr. Harris is changing my views of what the writing process is all about. I recall is as a boring and annoying thing that I had to do in my early years. She has given me a fresh start. I feel that writing can be a fun process, not just a cumbersome task I had to do as child. With this new beginning, I feel that I can make a similar impact on those students that will depend on me. I hope to make them feel that it is a neat and challenging journey to be enjoyed. Who know, maybe inspire a few to make a career out of it.
So needless to say, I hope to acquire more knowledge in the coming three weeks.
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