Sunday, March 13, 2011
3/13/11-reading comprehension
After reading through the readings I have learned a little more about my own reading comprehension. Like all other sbuject areas, every student is different and has there own learning style. After reading Thompkins, I have learned more about my visual learning style. On paage 297 it shows a beginning-middle-end story map and this would be helpful for my visual learning style along with many other visual learners. I enjoyed this comprehension stragety becuase it is a way for students to express their understanding of the book through a visual outlet instead of just paragraph writing format. As a future teacher it is important to switch it up and use different comprehension assessments and tools for all different learning styles. Being able to provide multiple tools to help guide students through their reading will also provide success in their comprehension and enjoyment of reading. There are many different tools to successfully master this, K-W-L charts, shared reading, learning logs, and book club, to name a few. Having more organized guidence will be helpful for different learning styles and be helpful for students who need that extra guidence throughout the reading.
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I think like Erin mentioned, the readings give me a deeper look into my own methods, but also of the strategies used in my placement school. Reading about various strategies and techniques for literacy learning either gives me a new idea of how to teach literacy, or makes me more aware of things that I could use in my placement or future classroom. I always enjoy reading about the different types of learners like Thompkins mentions on a few chapters. I can really see students in my class who benefit from having the opportunity to learn with various styles. Especially with younger students and short attentions spans, it is a good idea to incorporate their strengths and interests with learning. Last semester, we really looked at the KWL charts and how helpful they can be in planning a lesson. Activities with small groups, can also help the students in learning, the teacher in assessing, and can be overall a good thing for students to get comfortable doing so they get used to working in different contexts.
ReplyDeleteI like both Lisa and Erin believe that the readings have enriched the way I think about reading strategies. I belive that it is very easy to say that your placement school, ct and even yourself use different strategies when teaching, but once you have a clear idea of strategies such as those mentioned in the readings it gives you a more clear idea of how to incorporate strategies as well as if you are actually helping all learners.
ReplyDeleteEach lesson plan implemented daily should be geared toward every child in your classroom. Once you have created a prior knowledge of each students learning abilities the strategies implemented in your lessons should help each child. For me personal like Erin I am a visual learner so on page 297 the map would be very helpful for me. I believe that teachers need to have extra materials on hand to show or pass out to children to help them when reading to support their learning until they are able to create maps and KWL charts to help them lay out their thoughts and those of the text.
By having different assessments at the end of units will also help teachers to better assess students. Some students may be fully capable to write out their thoughts or take a test and this will let the teacher see what they know and do not know. Yet, some students may know the subject matter being assessed and not be able to write their thoughts completely or read questions and multiple choice answers correctly, which will lead the teacher to assess them inaccurately.
This leads me to believe that the teacher needs to use multiple reading strategies for both lessons and assessments.