1. How does elementary reading instruction contribute to poor literacy attainment for older children?
Literacy is key to school achievement. Improving school outcomes requires that we focus on raising literacy achievement. The goal is to have all children reading on grade level by grade three. Literacy skills are a foundation for success in math, science, history, and other school subjects.
2. What are reading test scores good for?
Reading scores are used for evaluating students, but also the testing of students is used to evaluate teachers and, in fact, the entire educational system. If reading scores are low then many critics conclude that our schools are failing and propose plans for immediate action.
3. What reality about a literacy myth surprised you the most? Why?
5. What kind of literacy do you have that was not acknowledge in school? (Literacy means being able to use texts and technologies to accomplish one's purpose in the world.)
I think being able to use technology in general is a literacy skill that I have now that was not acknowledge in school only simply because when I was in school technology was not as "big" as it is today. You can find many texts on the Internet to help you answer questions you might have rather then searching and searching through books.
6. Give an example of a literacy practice.
Literacy is key to school achievement. Improving school outcomes requires that we focus on raising literacy achievement. The goal is to have all children reading on grade level by grade three. Literacy skills are a foundation for success in math, science, history, and other school subjects.
2. What are reading test scores good for?
Reading scores are used for evaluating students, but also the testing of students is used to evaluate teachers and, in fact, the entire educational system. If reading scores are low then many critics conclude that our schools are failing and propose plans for immediate action.
3. What reality about a literacy myth surprised you the most? Why?
None of the myths really surprised me. After taking the reading content courses I have had a Fairmont State and taking my Pedagogy class I have learned many things about children and their literacy skills.
4. What do you know about teaching reading comprehension in the content areas? Give an example of a strategy you might teach during a science or social studies lesson.
When teaching reading comprehension in content areas you want to make sure you do before reading, during reading,and after reading. For example, in science if you are getting ready to do an experiment you and you have a list of instructions for the students to follow you want them to read them first and brainstorm about what they are going to do. After they have brainstormed or predicted something you want them to actually do the experiment and have them question what is happening and have them build connections to their predictions. Finally, you want them to reflect and summarize what they did.
When teaching reading comprehension in content areas you want to make sure you do before reading, during reading,and after reading. For example, in science if you are getting ready to do an experiment you and you have a list of instructions for the students to follow you want them to read them first and brainstorm about what they are going to do. After they have brainstormed or predicted something you want them to actually do the experiment and have them question what is happening and have them build connections to their predictions. Finally, you want them to reflect and summarize what they did.
5. What kind of literacy do you have that was not acknowledge in school? (Literacy means being able to use texts and technologies to accomplish one's purpose in the world.)
6. Give an example of a literacy practice.
7. What is a discourse community?
A discourse community is basically a community of people who share similar thoughts and ideas.
8. What can happen if students valuable multiple literacies are not recognized as valuable in school?
If a students multiple literacies are not recognized or engaged, adolescents choose not to read or write.
9. Give an example of how a teacher might build on the extracurricular literacy practices of their students?
You could have children act out a certain poem short play and portaying it in different way. For example, having them talk in a different dialect or dressing dirfferent.
10. Describe a time in which a teacher in your 4-12 schooling experience employed one of the reasearch-base strategiest to improve motivation.
When I was in highschool teachers began to use more technology in the classrooms even though we really didn't begin to use a lot unitl I entered college.
11. Give an example from your own K-12 schooling experience that engaged you in multicultural literacy developnment.
You could have children act out a certain poem short play and portaying it in different way. For example, having them talk in a different dialect or dressing dirfferent.
10. Describe a time in which a teacher in your 4-12 schooling experience employed one of the reasearch-base strategiest to improve motivation.
When I was in highschool teachers began to use more technology in the classrooms even though we really didn't begin to use a lot unitl I entered college.
11. Give an example from your own K-12 schooling experience that engaged you in multicultural literacy developnment.
I took four years of Spanish and one particular year we had a new Spanish teacher and he was amazing! He was all about teaching Spanish in a fun way, and he also did he best to make us feel like a part of the Spanish culture.
12. What do teachers gain recognition and respect from their peer also do well on?
12. What do teachers gain recognition and respect from their peer also do well on?
I think that if a teacher has the respect of their peers that it is for a reason. It can only mean that they know what they are doing and must get the same reaction from their students.
Sources:
Adolescent literacy. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Positions/Chron0907ResearchBrief.pdf
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