Design of an Ideal Early Literacy Program
Design of an Ideal Early Literacy Program
Goals
I have such an overwhelming feeling come over me when I think about the fact that in a few short months I will be responsible for helping nearly thirty students either learn to read or improve in their reading abilities. It is such an exciting yet daunting task! I already had many ideas and goals in my head about how I wanted my literacy based classroom to look and run, and after taking this class, I feel as though I am bursting with great ideas and various approaches! The hard part is narrowing down my focus and keeping in mind that as a first year teacher, I will be largely in survival mode. In other words, I have to decide what I feel are the most important things that I need to do as a teacher to help and encourage my students to read, while fostering a love for doing so. With that in mind, I have to say that my overarching goal and hope for my literacy program is that the end result is students who love to read. Certainly I plan to assess my student¡¦s reading through conferences, model effective reading strategies, introduce and offer a variety of genres, and encourage my students to respond to and reflect on what they have read...but my focus will be to provide my students with plenty of opportunities to read and to approach the practice and teaching of reading with the attitude that comes from being a true lover of reading myself. I believe that this will encourage and support a culture of reading in my classroom and beyond. I want my students to be so absorbed and invested in their reading that they groan when it is time to put our books away and transition into something else. I want them to spend just as much time reading at home as they do in my classroom (if not more). Along with that, I want my students to encourage their family members to read with them. I want them to remember Miss Detrick¡¦s second grade class because it was the year that they started pleasure reading all the
Goals
I have such an overwhelming feeling come over me when I think about the fact that in a few short months I will be responsible for helping nearly thirty students either learn to read or improve in their reading abilities. It is such an exciting yet daunting task! I already had many ideas and goals in my head about how I wanted my literacy based classroom to look and run, and after taking this class, I feel as though I am bursting with great ideas and various approaches! The hard part is narrowing down my focus and keeping in mind that as a first year teacher, I will be largely in survival mode. In other words, I have to decide what I feel are the most important things that I need to do as a teacher to help and encourage my students to read, while fostering a love for doing so. With that in mind, I have to say that my overarching goal and hope for my literacy program is that the end result is students who love to read. Certainly I plan to assess my student¡¦s reading through conferences, model effective reading strategies, introduce and offer a variety of genres, and encourage my students to respond to and reflect on what they have read...but my focus will be to provide my students with plenty of opportunities to read and to approach the practice and teaching of reading with the attitude that comes from being a true lover of reading myself. I believe that this will encourage and support a culture of reading in my classroom and beyond. I want my students to be so absorbed and invested in their reading that they groan when it is time to put our books away and transition into something else. I want them to spend just as much time reading at home as they do in my classroom (if not more). Along with that, I want my students to encourage their family members to read with them. I want them to remember Miss Detrick¡¦s second grade class because it was the year that they started pleasure reading all the