How does this activity engage students who are at different levels of
literacy development?
The activity provides students an opportunity at different levels various
activities to practice their literary skills. Some of the activities include a
shared reading component which allows them to work on their oral language and
develop their vocabulary. For students to achieve mastery of the English
language, the introduction of the words must be seamless. Ms. Perez introduces
a word wall in which students may reference. Students associate the words they
learn by referencing vowels and Consonants
through phonological awareness and encouraging students and using
rhyming.
During her explicit phonics lesson, how does Ms. Perez support students'
problem-solving skills?
During the phonics lesson, Ms. Perez provides support to students by
using common everyday animals and previous lesson plans and activities as a
reference tool for student who are having difficulty. In addition, she
encourages students by encouraging them by sounding out words together and
asking fellow classmates to help when they have difficulty solving.
Based on what you saw in the video, what are the different ways that
shared reading can be used to promote literacy?
Shared reading can help with word identification, students begin to
remember words and use words that they’ve seen/read previously as a reference
when sounding out new words. In addition, it develops their oral speaking
skills and they feel successful when they can connect the relationship. Sound
sequencing allows them to strengthen their fluency/automaticity.
Why does she think it's important for students to verbalize their
strategies? What else do you notice about how she helps students build meaning
in text?
Ms. Perez utilizes the assessment of students verbalizing their
strategies because it allows students to expand their vocabulary and to make
connection to the text. By connecting the strategies, it’s easier for students
to understand the reason she uses these assessments and allows students to
think and connect the text to the actual words and the acknowledge the steps
they take to understanding the text. By masking the text, it challenges the
students to breakdown a sentence and work one on one with students to identify their
needs.
How does Ms.
Perez organize her classroom to support a wide range of learners?
Ms. Perez
organizes her classroom by utilizing her co-teacher by developing a writing
extension that allows students to practice on various words that allow them to
identify words that have the same letters. In addition, she has a game that
provides students an opportunity to match words and a making words activities,
students utilize letters to develop words like the sound they are working on
perfecting. These activities are a great way to keep students engaged and
practice their awareness and knowledge of context clues.
How are reading
and writing connected in classroom activities?
In the classroom, reading and writing are connected significantly
because as students are writing, they are learning new words and expanding on
their writing capabilities. For example, by participating in the masking
activity, student’s pick-up on the context and connect the meaning of the word
used in the sentence and have an example of ways they may use it in their
future writing.
How does Ms.
Perez use ongoing individual assessment to guide her instruction? How can the
class profile be used to help group students and differentiate instruction?
Ms. Perez use
ongoing individual assessment to guide her instructions by finding out the area
in which students struggle the most in. Once she’s identified the areas of
weakness, she develops activities for the student to practice and strength the
area that need improvement. I believe Ms. Perez’s methods are ideal as they
allow students to grow and keep them engaged, when I shadowed 1st
grade students last year, I realized that many of the students struggled to
How can ongoing
assessment be integrated into your own classroom practice?
By utilizing stations, students can work in smaller groups and work
off each other strengths and expand on their abilities. I loved the masking
activity and the matching endings with photos by the rhymes. I look forward to
using both in my classroom to further assess the development of students writing
and reading abilities. I noticed in the past when I observed in the classroom, stations
were an important way to get students on different levels in various categories
to expand their learning.
