Kylie's First Blog!

This course definitely set me up with a lot of positive resources for my future classroom that I am grateful for. I believe that I did very well in the text presentations. I wish that I would have made them a little more creative, (considering they were all powerpoint slides) but I am very pleased with how I did. My favorite presentation that I did was the "The Book Whisperer." I loved this presentation so much solely because the book was INCREDIBLE. It taught me basically everything I need to know, need to prepare for, and different activities to get my students to love reading. It is a book that I will always keep in my classroom. Some of the discussions that I remember enjoying a lot were over graphic novels. I loved going to the library with the class and looking over different graphic novels together and how they are just as beneficial as other novels. I believe that I grew a lot in this class. I believe that my participation throughout this course has benefitted my thin...

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids Fun Activity for your Classroom!! Gather all of your students and assign them to a group of approximately 2-4 students per group Assign them each an important category to reading literature: simile, metaphor, setting, plot, etc. Have them each write on a poster board the definition, a picture, and the importance of that sub-category to reading literature Have each group present their poster to the class

I believe that the NES can be helpful in many ways. One of the main helpful things that the NES does is it is kind of set up to look at a text, break it up, and analyze it. It is super important to teach this to your students because this is a huge part of reading. I feel like all people know how to skim read, and do it often. It is hard for a lot of kids to comprehend long texts. Not even just their attention span, but also the content of the text can be a lot for students to take in fully. Being able to break up the texts into different parts can help the student analyze each text and then mend all of them together. How this relates to the CCSS is the fact that the CCSS is broken up as well. The Common Core State Standards are broken up by different standards for different grade levels. The way that these standards are broken up are related to the NES because they each are divided which help the teachers and the students understand the content better. If the CCSS were all connected, ...

Everybody is a Reader providing students with the opportunity to choose their own book strengthens their self-confidence and rewards their interests free voluntary reading if everyone is doing it, it becomes part of the class's culture requiring 40 books to read 10-20 books is not enough to install a love for reading read with your students students who enjoy the social aspects of school read when it is required to participate in the culture of a class reading notebooks conference meetings about the students and their books, assessing what they're liking and disliking about the book they chose talk about books be enthusiastic about reading, wiling to share opinions and willing to share about their books reading improvement plans commit to a certain amount of reading per day, choose books that personally interest you, reflect on your struggles Teaching Methods free-reading time in the classroom stop reading novels they ignore what students ...

Something that was shocking to me while reading was how important all of the little things are in everything that we do as teachers. I remember doing little bubble outlines before writing a paper and I thought it was so silly to do those because to me, it was kind of pointless. I, personally, felt like my papers were better when I would just write. That is when I felt like my creative side came out was when I would do surprised timed-writes. There would be no specific structure and my brain would just shut off and I would write. I feel like now, being in college, I do find that I use those little outlines a little bit more but not to that extent. I am so sick of the typical 5 paragraph essay with the introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and conclusion. I feel like although it is helpful to begin with, every single student relies on that format and it is killing a student's creativity!! That is why I loved the timed writes. I also loved them because I feel like they helped me write in d...

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In the Common Core State Standards, there was not much on visual literacy. Although there is a small section for it, it is not as big of a deal as other standards which I think is whack. Visual literacy is so important and needs to be included in the classrooms a lot more. It is not only something fun for the classroom, but it also is such a different way to interpret information in reading that students would benefit from! The book talked a lot about visual literacy in the media which I thought was interesting. It talked about how it is used in commercials and other types of the media for different ads and whatnot. I think it would be cool to teach more of that in the classroom. It’s interesting to see how different corporations and companies use visual literacy to persuade people to buy products. The different colors they use, the fonts they use, the type of wordings they choose, all of it is important in creating visual literacy. These different techniques would do the classroom and...

Oral and Visual Communication in the Classroom I thought that the NES pages of the assignment were extremely helpful in trying to find different ways as a teacher to get the students to listen in a positive way that benefits them and everyone else around them. Something that I took out of this reading was to focus on transitions. The text says that students should be able to listen to different transitions between ideas, but that can get difficult when it comes to reading because it is more linear than circular like in a classroom discussion. Something that can help when it comes to this is to take a minute after each central idea of the text or the discussion and to have the class get into small groups and kind of outline what they heard or what they read. I feel like getting into smaller groups to do this rather than doing it by oneself will help the students get MORE from what they read/heard. Also, I feel like this overall technique is just like 'active reading' in helpi...

Classroom Discussions There are a lot of important aspects when it comes to class discussions. Some teachers just give the students free reign to chat it out without any particular direction, and I think that this article helped give more direction to teachers to give to students that will benefit them. One of the important aspects that I thought will be super beneficial for students is the speech policy. The article talks about how forcing students to speak during discussion does not really do anything from them. It says that just because someone is not speaking, does not mean that their brain is not working hard and thinking about the content. A student should not be forced to talk or be told they will fail in the participation scale if they do not speak, because that only fears a child and honestly does nothing for their confidence and the discussion as well. This is something I appreciate because I am STILL in classes today where I am forced to speak or else I will not get the pa...

A Quantitative Investigation of Globalization In school, students normally have a decent amount of open and free space to basically go ham on whatever they want when they are writing. If given a topic in America, we do not necessarily need a particular structure and I admire that. In Japan, however, they crave structure. They need it. They need to know the word count, the structure, the spacing, everything. And although this is somewhat similar in America, it is more extreme in Japan. In Japan, everything is structured. Everything comes with a set amount of rules and requirements, where in America, students can normally write in a  more creative way, unless said so. This would be very difficult for a teacher in Japan because they would have to completely change up their routine and what they have been taught and given in order to let the kids write whatever they want, and how they want to. I feel like this could be so helpful for students in many different ways. I believe they wo...

Graphic Novels What's your familiarity with graphic novels? Why/how might graphic novels be useful for the secondary English language arts classroom? I do not have the greatest familiarity with graphic novels. In one instance, I did write a paper on the graphic novel of Batman. It was interesting because I had never really read a graphic novel like that. It was always just for fun, and to admire the pictures.  I believe that graphic novels are really useful for the secondary English language arts classroom for a lot of reasons regarding that it is visual! It provides a really engaging way for students to learn rather than the basic reading a book. They are a great way to engage visual learners to read, especially those who really struggle to sit down and read a book. They also have a great way of influencing readers to understand the material while also filling in the words between each panel of pictures. It can be such a brain-stimulating way of interacting with your s...