Course Reflection

This semester has been a wonderful learning experience! Watch my reflection on all aspects of this course here.

Thematic Unit

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ELL Case Study

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Week 11 Assignment 2

Using read-louds or shared reading during instruction is the best way for students to learn fluency. When students hear or take part in fluent reading, they are effectively taught how to do it on their own. Teachers should read aloud each day and across all subjects. This way students learn content specific vocabulary, build their background knowledge, and hear reading fluency. I’d like to incorporate the use of read-alouds throughout all subjects in my classroom. When teaching about the concept of zero, I can read the book, “Zero the Hero” by Joan Holub. “Little House on the Prairie” books can be used during geography instruction while the Magic Tree House series can be used during history lessons. The more we read-aloud to our students, whether they are reading along with us or not, the more fluent in reading they become.

View this supporting article. The article discusses the importance of using assisted and repeated readings to help students increase their reading fluency. This will help students in all three dimensions of reading fluency, namely, accuracy in word decoding, automatic processing, and prosodic reading.

This lesson plan teaches second-grade students to read text with proper expression and volume, chunk groups of text while reading, read at an appropriate pace, and recount key details of a read-aloud text.

Week 10

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Running Record Keystone Assignment

I conducted a running record on my student Devoiry K. using the text, The Parking Ticket. View my running record here. View my running record and miscue analysis.
Retelling Record, Mini-lesson, Reflection

Week 9 Assignment 3

You can view my lesson plan here.