Video on encouraging enthusiasm for reading: It's important that parents read with and to their children to help them build a love for reading. As teachers do in school by modeling the reading process, parents are encouraged to do the same at home to help their children get enthusiastic about reading.
Smart Table: Is a great way for students to interact during an activity. Whether it be a math activity or a reading activity where they can work together to achieve the end goal. It's for primary grades and is an easy way for four students to work together as well as using technology. There are endless amounts of ways to incorporate this technology but for social studies I think it would be beneficial when you are talking about locations to use the technology with maps or create a map with pictures of different events and placing them on the map where they occurred. I just think about my class and I teach US history from the Civil War to today and there are loads of locations my students need to know and how if they could move things around to get a better feel as to where these events take place. With literacy in my classroom I could see students writing a paper then recreating the paper or story on the board to tell the story with friends.
Science and literacy integrated: I think great ways to incorporate literacy development into science could be by making up songs to go along with the important key vocabulary of a unit to get them exposed to the language in a fun and exciting way. Science journal are a great way to incorporate writing into science. Literacy is reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Science content is difficult for students with language barriers because the background knowledge of the vocabulary might not be there. Having students speak about what experiment they just did could help build their speaking skills with key vocabulary in relation to the science content.
Literacy Development: I would say the development of literacy starts with being able to recognize words, read words, speak about reading, then being able to synthesize or analyze what you are reading.
Expository Text: We live in the information age and it's vital for students to be able to retell and engage in conversation about reading expository text. We see through the new common core standards how much emphasis has been put on being able to read and write informational text. Teachers should use expository trade books to teach students how to retell and summarize what is being read.
Research study: The research done showed that when explicit instruction of informational text was incorporated, students were more likely to read informational text on their own. Students are highly influenced by what the teacher is incorporating into the classroom. I found it interesting that the explicit instruction of fiction didn't have nearly the impact that explicit instruction of non-fiction did.
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteThe video on parent's reading involvement being such a key component in a child's life was very revealing. I find that how a parent raises a child (reading wise) and portrays reading as a positive activity is beneficial for a child's reading habits and enjoyment.
The Smart Table described in module 3 is absolutely amazing. My school just got one 2 weeks ago, and I have had the chance to glance at it. I like how you mentioned being able to do social studies activities with this piece of technology. One thing I know that would work for 5th grade on the table is creating a newspaper. I think this would be a great app for the students to use on the table with social studies, as they could research an important event or person. I will definitely let you know more about the success of the table once my class has the opportunity to work with it. :)