Reading Across the Curriculum: Brief Edition. 4th edition. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Boston: Longman, 2011. 150-158. Print.…
The Feather of Maat, known as the Feather of Truth is shown in this exhibit, and is now housed at the Smithsonian Museum. The feather is a portion of inlay art, made of glass, which now appears green in color. This artifact is believed to be from the Ptolemaic Dynasty, 305-30 BCE, in Egypt. It is a tiny artifact, measuring only 1 and 1/4 inches, but it has a big legacy. This artifact was most likely used in part of a greater art piece to depict a story with the Goddess Maat.…
CD 1 gave me foundational songs that can be used to help implement the program. I found the beginning information very positive. You never start at the top to build a house. How true is that? It made me think more about literacy. Why did we ever switch to learning words, sight reading, when that is considered the top, before we ever learned phonics? When I say we, I am refering to the children who have been taught in this fashion. With the occurance of dyslexia in America being attached to children who have been taught sight reading over phonics, it 's important that we take the time to teach children the proper way to read. Again, we do not build a house from the top down, just as we should not teach whole words before we learn to sound them out. CD1 also gave foundation to the following CDs and bookwork. It talks about associating sounds with pictures (very interactive), action reading, learning the sounds first means you are on the right track now. The entire program seems to be based solidly on the engine sounds and repeats, repeats, repeats this until a student can say them perfectly and faster than lightening. I could not even say them as fast as my student. I enjoyed the Roman Army. The Romans introduced the alphabet and said we will write our alphabet with two letters to make a sound. Interesting for young children, just like the train engine. The songs like Billly Green,…
Schoenbach, Ruth, et al. Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.…
Learning Point Associates. (2004). A closer look at the five essential components of effective reading instruction: a review of scientifically based reading research for teachers. Retrieved July 26, 2013, from…
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009a). Literacy development in an academically diverse classroom: Literacy assessments for emergent readers. Baltimore: Author.…
Taylor, B., Pearson, P., Clark, K., & Walpole, S. (2005). Beating the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read. CIERA Report #2-006. University of Michigan: Ann…
In the video segment, Getting to Know Your Students (2011), Dr. Almasi states that it is important that teachers get to know who each student is as a person. Therefore, at the beginning of the year I assessed my students’ non-cognitive abilities by using an assessment tool called the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) (McKenna & Kear, 1990). I found that many students (from both high and low groups) enjoy getting a book for present and starting a new book. Both groups also stated…
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009b). Literacy development in an academically diverse classroom: Virtual Field Experience™: 'Read with ' activity. Baltimore: Author.…
My second artifact is a picture book that I made with all the pictures my grandpa and I took together for any type of holiday or a photo to share the fun memories we had together. I chose to make a picture book because I was very thankful to have my grandpa apart of most of my life. I couldn’t have done it without him through most of the hard times. It ties in with my larger theme because I appreciated everything my grandpa did for me before his passing.…
As my first grade teacher rolls the giant TV station into my class, a majority of my fellow classmates let out an over exaggerated sigh. The lights shut and the screen flicks on, filling the room with the outdated theme song to Reading Rainbow, beginning the reading lesson for the day. From despising Reading Rainbow and getting my first Junie B. Jones book to reading The Catcher in the Rye and Fahrenheit 451, my love for reading has grown to the point of wanting to own a library that one would see on pinterest when looking for cute bookshelf ideas.…
How: Students will listen to the teacher while she reads the book, following along, looking at pictures and participating in the discussion about the story.…
As the course textbook states, "the arts give form to what is imagined, express human beliefs and emotions" (xv) and "for the majority of their history, artists have expressed the dominant beliefs of a culture" (xv). When studying the humanities, you can examine written works, musical works, works of art, and architecture to get a sense of what the creators of those works and the cultures from which those creators came believed. Much of this involves placing these artifacts into the context of what is known from other sources about the creators and cultures. A major part also involves looking at just the artifacts themselves to examine and interpret what their form and content reflect. This assignment asks you to follow this process of looking…
I would be a great book to read in class at the beginning of the year to talk to students about reading. Although Dewey is very interested in reading, students who don’t like reading could relate to his classmates who he was recommending books to. This book could be used the teach students that even if they think they don’t like reading, they might enjoy reading about something they life. This also would be an excellent book to read to talk about being patient, since Dewey was not patient at all. When incorporating patience into the lesson, bible verses and stories could be used as well to show students the importance of being…
On the other hand I don’t like to read what so ever, but I’m going to improve my reading this year. I don’t like to read because I fall asleep as soon as I begin to read books. The books that I like are adventurous and action-packed books because they interest me so I won’t fall asleep. These kinds of books stimulate my imagination and help me visualize the story. In order to keep me interested in reading I would like to have audio or graphics books. I did great academically last year as I made A’s and B’s. My academic goals this year are to make straight A’s and to receive scores above 900 on the CRCT.…
