When it comes to reading and
writing, we know that children are all on different levels. Some read and write
at a high level, some could read at a high level but write on a low level. Some
children might not even know how to read or write in English, which becomes
quiet a problem. I know from experience how hard reading and writing is in
schools if you do not really know how to speak English. I have a cousin who did
not know English when he started school and I remember how much trouble he had
with school. He would sometimes get frustrated with the work if he could not do
it. Eventually he learned English and everything turned out fine for him.
“The best
teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.” That is one of my favorite
quote and something I truly believe. I will follow that quote once I become a
teacher. I want to make sure that my students excel in reading and writing. I will arrange my classroom and lessons that I
have in order to support all the different learners I have in my classroom.
I am
currently majoring in Bilingual Elementary Education and I am taking my first
Bilingual class this semester. I am sure that once I finish this class I will
learn a lot of new things on how to help bilingual kids with reading and
writing. I will have concept maps, introduce ways of thinking things through,
use focus/target questions, and have the children work in groups of different
reading/writing levels so that they can each help each other out. I also think
it is important to use some kind of technology. For example, the text to speech
software is something that I will use for students who have trouble reading.
Using that will provide my students with flexible learning experiences. When I
assign my students a reading, I will have them read in groups. I feel working
in groups helps children learn more.
I found "balanced literacy" interesting in the article I just read for class. Balanced literally was stated as presenting skill based teaching and meaning based teaching. It includes read alouds, guided reading, shared reading, and independent reading. By giving my students all these different options to choose from on how they would like to read will help them a lot. They will feel comfortable and be able to read well in the form that they want.
I found "balanced literacy" interesting in the article I just read for class. Balanced literally was stated as presenting skill based teaching and meaning based teaching. It includes read alouds, guided reading, shared reading, and independent reading. By giving my students all these different options to choose from on how they would like to read will help them a lot. They will feel comfortable and be able to read well in the form that they want.
Hi Stephanie! I like how you are talking about how you want to incorporate teaching all different levels in a bilingual class. Isn't it great to think about doing these things when you are a teacher? I wish you had expanded more on the ideas you brought up in your blog. Some of the ideas are somewhat vague, and I would like to read more about them. For example: describe what it means to you to "teach from the heart, not from the book". I think that would be really interesting to read!
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