Literacy Platform
My Literacy Beliefs
"If we want our students to be excited about literacy, they need to have teachers who love coming to work, who are literacy learners themselves and who find ways to make curriculum relevant to children's lives."
- Regie Routman
READING
As a teacher, I believe in the essential reading life. I must know my students' as readers to be able to teach them literacy. In my future classroom I will implement Reader's Workshop. My goal is to read at least four read alouds a day. I believe in using interactive read alouds to teach cross curriculum. Shared reading is very important to me. It is the heart of the reading lesson. Modeling fluent reading and think alouds will be used during shared reading. Guided reading is very important to meet the literacy needs of every student. I will use my guided reading time for my students to practice reading behaviors, reading strategies, and how to discuss the content. During guided reading, the rest of my class will be working with the Daily 5.
1. Read to Self
2. Read to Someone
3. Listen to Reading
4. Write about Reading
5. Word Work
Independent reading will be attractive, comfortable, and accessible in my classroom. I am very excited to use my newly learned literacy teaching strategies in my classroom!
K W L
Something that I have learned but still want to know more about is Writer's Workshop. I know how I want to incorporate Reader's Workshop in my classroom but I am not yet confident in Writer's Workshop. I want to teach my future class mini lessons on writing and then have them show growth during centers. I think daily four square, and other differentiating options for writing is great for students because it gives them choice and structure for what writing styles and books they shall choose. I am wondering what components of Writer's Workshop show the most improvement in students and how to incorporate it in our daily schedule.
WRITING
I believe writing is very important to teach in elementary school. It is the student's foundation of how they will write for middle school, high school, and college. In my future classroom I will teach the 6 traits of writing, which I learned the book, 6 + 1 Traits of Writing. The six traits include, ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. I will teach my students based on their writing needs. I will conduct mini lessons, writing portfolios, and have a writing center. My mini lesson will include one trait my students need help with. Next, each child will have a writing portfolio where they will have blank paper, an ideas sheet, and a folder to keep all of their work. An example of what a writing center in my future classroom will look like is under 5th Grade Writing Center tab.
My Literacy Platform
My experience with literacy in the classroom begins with the reason why I want to be a teacher. It was my first day in an elementary classroom and I was in charge of supervising first grade reading block centers. I walked around and noticed a girl was having trouble reading aloud. I went over to her and whispered in her ear to try again, but this time, follow the words with her pointer finger. In a matter of a couple of seconds she was flying through the book and fell in love with reading! Being able to help her find her special strategy for reading made me feel like I can teach anyone anything. I realized at that moment I am meant to be a teacher and I am able to teach children the importance of literacy.
Teaching literacy needs to include many unique strategies. I feel as if a guided reading, read-alouds, group and independent readings are the best ways for all students with different learning styles to engage in their readings. The different techniques of reading have different lessons taught in them. For example, guided reading is to find comprehension and group readings are for the students to reflect on what they are reading/writing about. My goal for teaching literacy is to have all of my students loving reading and have fun reflecting it in words, or out loud, on what they have read.
Literacy should be taught in all subjects, throughout the day. This means during Social Studies, for example, students should be reading news articles and writing their thoughts on what they read. Another example of how literacy should be taught is that students should read school newsletters, community magazines, and write daily reflections of what is happening around their life. Being engaged in the school and community helps connect the students to real life situations their homework connects too. It also gives them a reason to share what they are learning with people among the community and students will work extra hard if they know their work is going to have an audience besides their teacher.
A very important part of teaching literacy is assessments. I feel as if I would like my students to be tested for their literacy abilities in different ways. I would like to test them at guided-readings to check for comprehension. I would like to use state tests to find here my class compares t other schools and what reading level my students are on. Finally, I would like to test my students with peer review, with my supervision. I like this idea the best because it includes group work, presenting to an audience, and learning how to appropriately grade their classmates.
My Literacy Beliefs
"If we want our students to be excited about literacy, they need to have teachers who love coming to work, who are literacy learners themselves and who find ways to make curriculum relevant to children's lives."
- Regie Routman
READING
As a teacher, I believe in the essential reading life. I must know my students' as readers to be able to teach them literacy. In my future classroom I will implement Reader's Workshop. My goal is to read at least four read alouds a day. I believe in using interactive read alouds to teach cross curriculum. Shared reading is very important to me. It is the heart of the reading lesson. Modeling fluent reading and think alouds will be used during shared reading. Guided reading is very important to meet the literacy needs of every student. I will use my guided reading time for my students to practice reading behaviors, reading strategies, and how to discuss the content. During guided reading, the rest of my class will be working with the Daily 5.
1. Read to Self
2. Read to Someone
3. Listen to Reading
4. Write about Reading
5. Word Work
Independent reading will be attractive, comfortable, and accessible in my classroom. I am very excited to use my newly learned literacy teaching strategies in my classroom!
K W L
Something that I have learned but still want to know more about is Writer's Workshop. I know how I want to incorporate Reader's Workshop in my classroom but I am not yet confident in Writer's Workshop. I want to teach my future class mini lessons on writing and then have them show growth during centers. I think daily four square, and other differentiating options for writing is great for students because it gives them choice and structure for what writing styles and books they shall choose. I am wondering what components of Writer's Workshop show the most improvement in students and how to incorporate it in our daily schedule.
WRITING
I believe writing is very important to teach in elementary school. It is the student's foundation of how they will write for middle school, high school, and college. In my future classroom I will teach the 6 traits of writing, which I learned the book, 6 + 1 Traits of Writing. The six traits include, ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. I will teach my students based on their writing needs. I will conduct mini lessons, writing portfolios, and have a writing center. My mini lesson will include one trait my students need help with. Next, each child will have a writing portfolio where they will have blank paper, an ideas sheet, and a folder to keep all of their work. An example of what a writing center in my future classroom will look like is under 5th Grade Writing Center tab.
My Literacy Platform
My experience with literacy in the classroom begins with the reason why I want to be a teacher. It was my first day in an elementary classroom and I was in charge of supervising first grade reading block centers. I walked around and noticed a girl was having trouble reading aloud. I went over to her and whispered in her ear to try again, but this time, follow the words with her pointer finger. In a matter of a couple of seconds she was flying through the book and fell in love with reading! Being able to help her find her special strategy for reading made me feel like I can teach anyone anything. I realized at that moment I am meant to be a teacher and I am able to teach children the importance of literacy.
Teaching literacy needs to include many unique strategies. I feel as if a guided reading, read-alouds, group and independent readings are the best ways for all students with different learning styles to engage in their readings. The different techniques of reading have different lessons taught in them. For example, guided reading is to find comprehension and group readings are for the students to reflect on what they are reading/writing about. My goal for teaching literacy is to have all of my students loving reading and have fun reflecting it in words, or out loud, on what they have read.
Literacy should be taught in all subjects, throughout the day. This means during Social Studies, for example, students should be reading news articles and writing their thoughts on what they read. Another example of how literacy should be taught is that students should read school newsletters, community magazines, and write daily reflections of what is happening around their life. Being engaged in the school and community helps connect the students to real life situations their homework connects too. It also gives them a reason to share what they are learning with people among the community and students will work extra hard if they know their work is going to have an audience besides their teacher.
A very important part of teaching literacy is assessments. I feel as if I would like my students to be tested for their literacy abilities in different ways. I would like to test them at guided-readings to check for comprehension. I would like to use state tests to find here my class compares t other schools and what reading level my students are on. Finally, I would like to test my students with peer review, with my supervision. I like this idea the best because it includes group work, presenting to an audience, and learning how to appropriately grade their classmates.