On March 6, 2017, I had the opportunity to observe Ms. Kennedy 4th grade class during her reading lesson. Ms. Kennedy teaches at Martha Gaskins Elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama. The Birmingham City School system students are predominately African-American and come from low-income homes. Therefore, all schools in the system are Title 1 schools except the ones that have been designated as specialty schools. Mrs. Kennedy begins each morning with a morning comprehension worksheet. The students are given a two-page reading selection to read. Attached are approximately ten questions with at least two of the questions being open-ended. The observation I made was the English Language Learner students were given a different morning comprehension. …show more content…
Once the students returned from PE, students were directed to have desk cleared off. Ms. Kennedy began to discuss the weekly reading selection. She then led them to take out their reading workbooks. This week's reading selection was the Great Kapok Tree, and their skill associated with the lesson was the generalization. The workbook had approximately ten pages per story. The students were taught the pronunciation of each vocabulary word and their meaning. They were then given the opportunity to answer questions associated with the vocabulary words. One activity was filling in the missing word and reading sentences that had the vocabulary word in them. The students were tasked to identify the proper meaning of the vocabulary word embedded in the sentence. Ms. Kennedy worked with the students to identify the appropriate responses for both activities. After Mrs. Kennedy had completed both activities, she directed the students to complete the first reading worksheet of the story …show more content…
She gave an illustration of how she applied African American History for the month of February. She began by reading the book Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Margaret McNamara and Mike Gordon. In the book, the teacher had the students draw some of their dreams on a piece of paper. Ms. Kennedy at the end of the story had the students do the same. Once she handed the students the paper, they began to draw their dreams. She then collected up their writings and their pictures and informed the students that tomorrow they would be creating a final draft and she will be posting them outside the classroom for all to see. She informed me that she would be assessing their writings with a rubric the following
Students will be read parts of the first few pages, teacher will then pause at words and say just the beginning sound and have students guess what the words mean. (Ex: Over in the Ju____.) Students will then be expected to guess words that may fit the book and begin with the letter Ju (Jungle). This practice will
The essential literacy strategy goes along with the standards and learning objectives by using context clues to help the student figure out unknown or unfamiliar words. Students will build reading comprehension skills by using context clues for figuring out unknown or unfamiliar words while they are reading. Then the students will perform the strategies individually. The related skills address the use of prior knowledge of synonyms and antonyms during the hook and transition portion of the lesson. The reading and writing connections go along with the learning objectives, because the students will read their assigned book and picking out words they do not understand. The students will have to write the sentence with the unknown word in it, and use context clues to figure out the definition of the unknown word. The central focus for this unit of study is for the students to use context clues to better their comprehension of what they have read in their assigned books. The students will be able to use context clues within sentences to determine the meaning of unknown or unfamiliar words. These lessons deal with comprehending text by using context clues to help figure out unknown words. The lessons build off each other by adding more detail to learning about context clues. As the lessons progress the students will be more independent when using context clues. The first lesson is learning about what context clues are. The second lesson will focus on using context clues to figure
[ ] In order to build on the children’s understanding and content knowledge, lesson one’s purpose is to engage the children through making a prediction based on the text, pictures, and title. Lesson two builds on the language and literacy by continuing with using the mentor text, “Fancy Nancy” and using the rich academic language associated with the central focus of predictions. For example, each lesson has a distinct objective in which the activities are built on but all three lessons build on each other by incorporating similar academic language and literacy. The children start out in a whole group setting and are actively engaged through discussions and sharing activities. The children are then scaffolded into independent reading and activities to assess their understanding of the content objectives. They then use their prior knowledge and rich vocabulary to successfully complete the objective of each lesson through verbal discussions, independent work, and physical movement. In lesson one, the children are actively engaged through participating in a gallery walk. This gallery walk is done with the children’s table groups and encourages community and social interactions. During this activity, the children will work together to activate their prior knowledge of predictions and record through writing what they
Most of the other students in her 2nd grade classroom are able to read classroom text and complete work independently. They also read books for enjoyment on their own. The reading time in her classroom consists of a block during which the teacher works with small groups and the children are expected to work quite independently when they are not working directly with the teacher. The class uses a trade book format and this is utilized across the curriculum. Students are provided with short skills building lessons in large and small groups. Most of the time spent during explicit reading instruction is targeted to helping students develop reading fluency.
Being a leader for what is right could mean death right around the corner. Few people take on this task, risking their everyday lives for something that is morally right. Ender Wiggins and John Fitzgerald Kennedy are two of the brave people to take on the challenge, and responsibility of leading others through rough times. Ender Wiggins and John Fitzgerald Kennedy both showed immense leadership through Creativity, Persistence, and Courage.
During my observation, I was able to observe two students at different grade levels. For my first student, my assessment was based on the criteria of Letter and Sound, Alphabet Knowledge, Site Words and Interest inventory assessments. However, my second assessment was based on the criteria of Running Record, Site Words, and the Interest inventory. Thus within this paper, I will present the data I collected from the assessments of each student.
In the film A Class Divided by William Peters, Jane Elliot is interviewed about an exercise she had created in her third grade class after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Elliot’s purpose of creating this exercise was to help mold her students minds in not only understanding the current events in America, but also having them experience for a fraction what African Americans are forced to go through on a daily basis. In her exercise she divides her students into two groups.
I will hand Katherine a story called Let’s Make Cookies. I will ask Katherine to read the title, look at the picture and predict what she think the story will be about. Katherine will read the story out loud two times and one time to herself. While Katherine is reading she will have the three strategies we worked on today and two strategies from the day before. Then, Katherine will complete a comprehension worksheet.
Our activities that involved children in practicing reading "story retell". We use interactive, manipulative ways of learning literacy. We told the children to look at the picture and we told the children the word was something that can be seen in the picture. We asked the children to look for chunks in the word, such as “Touchdown, Munched, Crunched, and Feathers”, and some of them showed it.
Brooklyn was an African American 6 years old, she will be going to the 1st grade this year, her mother is an admitting clerk at Long Beach Memorial Hospital and her father is a Long Police Officer. I asked her parent if I could asked her a couple of questions for a class assessment, and they agreed.
Due to the relative short period of the teacher–led activity (by another member of staff) and the enclosed nature of the environment, a further narrative observation was felt to be more appropriate than a tick sheet to gain a more detailed analysis. However this time from a purely nonverbal interactive approach, allowing for deeper understanding of the vocabulary knowledge now being used by Thomas during guided reading.
While learning Kalina through this course, I was able to teach her a lesson I develop during the course. I decided to implement lesson 3 which involves the areas of intervention in Reading Comprehension/Expressive Language. The objective of the lesson for Kalina to listen to a chapter of Cam Jansen, The Green School Mystery. Kalina will complete a graphic organizer for reading comprehension in addition be able to express her thoughts using detail information learn from the chapter. Once Kalina finish reading the entire book, she will then use the outline provided during the instruction to be able to complete a 3-4 sentence paragraph of the book to orally present to her peers.
Through literature circles, Mrs Kandel had us read many books such as A Wrinkle in Time, Number the Stars, and many more stories. Some of these novels we dreaded, while others we fell in love with. She would sometimes let us read the novel with “POPCORN” so everyone got to read whether they only read the limit of two lines or the student read until she made you give up their turn. Each story, showed us the different ways that stories can be told or written. Another activity that
• Engaging Students in Learning – Miss Nitzkin provided many opportunities for students to collaborate with their peers (discussion, pair work). Activities were of high interest to the students (peeps). The structure and pacing of the lesson was appropriate to meet the needs of ALL students. Miss Nitzkin explained possible new vocabulary words for some students. (absorb, detergent).
My goal was to focus on Amelia’s reading comprehension. I had planned to conduct an additional running record, however I had hoped to engage Amelia in retelling the text, and answering literal and inferential comprehension questions. I had planned to meet with Amelia twice during the week; once being, after she went “book shopping” in the class library and then the next day to focus on her comprehension on one the books she had chosen. I had planned to have a list of questions for Amelia and I to discuss verbally. I had plan for my questions to have Amelia thinking within the text, thinking beyond the text and thinking about the test.