Change!

I think that I have changed some over the course of this class. I have most definitely learned a lot about Language Arts that I had not known beforehand. I have learned about the different types of writing, listening and the 6 Language Art! I have really been amazed about all the things I had forgotten. I realize that I am not very good at grammar and will have to look over it before I begin teaching my students. I have also realized how much I love read alouds! I am going to have them in my classroom. Listening to the books that Dr. Duncan read made me want to go out and read all of the books. I want that same thing to happen to my students in my classroom. I also think that I will try to do writers workshops in my class, depending on what grade I am in. I might not do them if I am teaching a preschool class. I also want to try and do a literature circle in my class. I think that they students will like these activities. I have really learned a lot of fun and exciting things that I can do to promote literacy in my future class.

Field experience!

I have had so much fun in my field placement class this semester! My teacher has a literacy activity everyday in her classroom. I have observed her doing small group work and mini lessons with the whole group. I have really seen a lot of the topics that we discuss in Mrs. Biven's class when I go and observe. This has really helped me to put what we have learned and apply it to a real classroom. I think that after learning about literature groups and writers workshops, I could really tell in the class if the activities they were doing were falling into one of these categories. I think that these observations at me placement have really made a positive impact on my out look of literacy in the class. I think that I have gotten a lot of great ideas and will be using them when I become a teacher.

Peer revisinng/editing

During class we did peer revisions and editing to our narrative stories. I really enjoyed doing this. I thought it was very helpful to get feed back from a peer on the content and structural parts of my paper. I also liked being able to read over another peer's paper to try and help them. I think it gave me good practice on revising a paper so I will be able to revise my students papers in the future. I also think that this activity would be very helpful in the classroom. I think the students will be more motivated to try if they know that a peer will be looking over their paper. This will also give students good experience with knowing how to give feed back to a peer. It will also help the students know how to revise his or her own paper better.I think the same concept will be good for doing this activity with middle and high school students. I think that they students will benefit from this activity by working together to try and produce the most effective paper possible.