I agree, Brian. There is a lack of literacy skills that hamper the growth of many students. I agree that teachers need to teach critical literacy skills by giving the students material worthy of being read. However, for assignments that are of little interest to students and for those assignments that are difficult reads, I agree that scaffolding during lessons is necessary. Teachers will be better able to reach their students when scaffolding reading assignments by showing the students how to determine importance within the reading material, predicting, inferencing, and by providing summarization skills through after reading evaluations.
Teachers need to teach literacy skills, but I wonder why in the many posts I have seen that there is no mention of the home. The things we try to do during the 6.5 hours with students is lost if we don't have the parental support at home.
It was a pleasure first off hearing your perspective having read the same sections as myself. I think that it shows that reading the same information means something different to someone just by what there are exposed to from their own classroom and population! I must agree as an individual not too fond of standardized test that if we spent half the time teaching students to think and be thinkers, we would be more successful teaching and strengthen our future.
Content literacy instruction begins at the elementry and middle school level of education. Students should be well prepared to address and deal with the complexities of in-depth reading and writing in secondary content learning.
You stole my point that all these great techniques are lost in the focus and regiment of standardize testing. Pretty sad when elementary grades dont get science or social studies consitently because its not testing subject area.
Without literacy in content area I feel that students'learning will be affected because of the greater concerns for standardized test scores. Thinking aloud is a good strategy to use to identify how much students have learned and most importantly how students think. This gives teachers a chance to understand the students they teach. Teachers can have portfolios on each student to show students' progress. Meta-cognition is essential for both teachers and students to understand how people think. Literacy in the content area can bridge the gap from the disengage to the engaged by motivating students to read what they like, use their own thoughts, and reflect. This is empowering the students to use critical thinking skills with literacy in the content area.
I agree that often times the teacher is so caught up in trying to follow the rules and give a certain amount of information to the class that they forget the student. I think it is more important to gain students understanding then it is to just merely cover large amounts of texts.
I also agree with your way of thinking that teacher have to definitely understand meta cognition in order to fully teach reading along with having student become world thinkers.
I agree, Brian. There is a lack of literacy skills that hamper the growth of many students. I agree that teachers need to teach critical literacy skills by giving the students material worthy of being read. However, for assignments that are of little interest to students and for those assignments that are difficult reads, I agree that scaffolding during lessons is necessary. Teachers will be better able to reach their students when scaffolding reading assignments by showing the students how to determine importance within the reading material, predicting, inferencing, and by providing summarization skills through after reading evaluations.
ReplyDeleteTeachers need to teach literacy skills, but I wonder why in the many posts I have seen that there is no mention of the home. The things we try to do during the 6.5 hours with students is lost if we don't have the parental support at home.
ReplyDeleteIt was a pleasure first off hearing your perspective having read the same sections as myself. I think that it shows that reading the same information means something different to someone just by what there are exposed to from their own classroom and population! I must agree as an individual not too fond of standardized test that if we spent half the time teaching students to think and be thinkers, we would be more successful teaching and strengthen our future.
ReplyDeleteContent literacy instruction begins at the elementry and middle school level of education. Students should be well prepared to address and deal with the complexities of in-depth reading and writing in secondary content learning.
ReplyDeleteYou stole my point that all these great techniques are lost in the focus and regiment of standardize testing. Pretty sad when elementary grades dont get science or social studies consitently because its not testing subject area.
ReplyDeleteWithout literacy in content area I feel that students'learning will be affected because of the greater concerns for standardized test scores. Thinking aloud is a good strategy to use to identify how much students have learned and most importantly how students think. This gives teachers a chance to understand the students they teach. Teachers can have portfolios on each student to show students' progress. Meta-cognition is essential for both teachers and students to understand how people think. Literacy in the content area can bridge the gap from the disengage to the engaged by motivating students to read what they like, use their own thoughts, and reflect. This is empowering the students to use critical thinking skills with literacy in the content area.
ReplyDeleteI agree that often times the teacher is so caught up in trying to follow the rules and give a certain amount of information to the class that they forget the student. I think it is more important to gain students understanding then it is to just merely cover large amounts of texts.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your way of thinking that teacher have to definitely understand meta cognition in order to fully teach reading along with having student become world thinkers.
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