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What DOES Literacy Instruction LOOK LIKE?
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As I look back on my life, I am confronted with the illustration that I once conjured up in my mind as an adolescent of how one day I would have a classroom with my name hanging on the door. I practiced playing the role of the very person I would work diligently in school to become. At that young age, my idea of a school teacher was shaped by the media, my parents, and what I witnessed at school from my very own teachers. Ten years later and I have an ever-changing view on what teaching is, how I should teach, what should I teach, how children will demonstrate their learning, how to best meet students varying needs, and what is the purpose behind it all. Based upon my experiences in and out of the classroom, my knowledge from textbooks, articles, and research, I have produced just a few of my teaching ideals, revolved around literacy instruction, that are rooted in my love for this calling and for all of my students. I cherish time, every minute that a student is not reading, writing, or engaging in meaningful conversation is wasted time. I believe in the one-third/two-third balance of time, one-third of the time I teach and two-thirds of the time the students demonstrate their knowledge; children need time to practice what they have learned. Studies have shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year (Anderson, 1988). By incorporating time during the day to read literature with my students and allow them to independently read, I am setting them up for success, not only in my class but in future academic endeavors. To ensure every teachable moment isn’t taken for granted, I would allow for cross-curricular connections. Students need exposure to all content areas and they need to be familiar with writing and reading common vocabulary in science, math and social studies. In order to achieve academic gains in each student in one 180 day school year, I am not only responsible for how I manage my time with each student and the class as a whole, but I am responsible for making students develop goals for their own learning so they can work hard throughout the year.
Catering everything to the individual student is one of my goals. I value meeting the children where they are and working with what they bring to the table. I plan on building each students previous successes with reading and writing in order to ensure future motivation. Literacy becomes increasingly complex overtime, so I plan on building each students fluency, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and comprehension through readiness centers, the daily five, scaffolding, and modeling to ensure they don’t encounter future bumps in the road. My classroom will have exposure to all forms of language; we will use resources like magazines, novels, textbooks, websites, biographies, menus, and encyclopedias to gather information and widen their exposure to multi-media print. The more integrated and diverse my instruction can be the better. EXPERiences with literacy Instruction. |
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