A Love for Reading
I really loved this video. I thought it was so important for teachers to watch. If we watch this and are aware of the importance of home life, we can easily remind parents the importance of reading at home. When children are exposed to texts and literacy at home they become more familiar with texts. Children learn from their parents. If parents love to read, children will want to follow them and learn to love to read as well. I constantly remind my students' parents to read to their children. It will help them learn fluency, expression, and see their parents loving to read.
SMART Tables
Although I am very familiar with SMART Boards I have only learned a little about SMART Tables. When I think of these tables, I typically think of the younger grades. I really do think that these tables could be amazing tools in the classroom. Even if there is only one or two in a school, they could be used for students to actually manipulate all types of materials in front of them on the table.
Exploring Social Studies and Technology
I really liked seeing how technology can be used to help teach Social Studies. I find that in many schools, Social Studies is taught straight out of the book. I think that using technology, such as the SMART Tables would be an amazing tool. I really liked watching the students in the video manipulate a map. I think that technology can be used across the grade levels and students can learn through exploration, watching videos, etc.
Integrating Science and Literacy in Early Childhood
When will we realize that textbooks don't teach children? So many schools continue to use textbooks as their ways to getting information across to students. Now, do I believe that textbooks should go away? No. But I do think they should be paired with other means such as technology, graphic organizers, teaching students to outline, etc. I really think that Science and literacy can easily be integrated so that students don't have to learn straight from the textbooks, but use the textbooks as a guide.
Development of Literacy
With this article I found out that Information Literacy, or IL is why information is needed. I think that IL, if taught to various grades is a great inquiry lesson for students. IL is going to continue to grow and we can use IL across the grades.
Expository Text Structures and Signal Words
In second grade we do two whole units on non-fiction texts. Non-fiction texts have specific cue words that can be taught to help students understand where the text is going or how to extract specific information. These cue words, can be very helpful with non-fiction texts as they can provide a map for students.
Article: Expository Text Structures- Moss
This goes along with what I just wrote above. Trade books are a valuable tool that can be used to teach text structure. Because non-fiction texts are so difficult, using trade books, particularly ones students are already familiar with will help them ease into a different genre and be able to understand and comprehend what they are reading.
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