Advanced Literacy Practice Class Analysis

I completed my literacy field experience at Isanti Intermediate School/School for all Seasons in Isanti, MN. I was able to complete my 20 hour observation in a 1st grade classroom (primary), a 3rd grade classroom (intermediate), and conducted fluency tests in a 5th grade classroom. Each class had approximately 22 to 25 students. Also during this literacy class, I was also able to spend a few days observing a 3rd/4th grade classroom and a kindergarten classroom through a couple of sub jobs I completed. I need to note that my understanding was that 3rd grade was part of the intermediate program so I completed half my observation and assessment time with a 3rd grade classroom and completed a 3rd grader assessment. I am happy to say

In Deborah Brandt’s article, Sponsors of Literacy, she defines sponsors as, “… any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way” (pp 166). There have been a few people in my life who have done exactly that; they helped me gain knowledge on many topics in hopes that I would find it informative and be able to better the world around me.

One of the most eye opening experiences of my life occurred in the second grade. I would have never thought that doing one simple assignment in elementary school could change my whole perspective on literacy. My understanding of literacy was sparked when I had read my first real book. I remember sitting down on the vividly colorful carpet day dreaming about playing Mario Cart on my Nintendo 64 while everyone was obediently listening to the teacher read a book out loud. It wasn’t that I did not know how to read or listen, I just didn’t care. Reading to me used to be tedious because I did not understand the purpose of it. I did not grow up with the luxury of my parents reading to me because they weren’t literate in English, so I had to figure out for myself why literacy is vital in everyday life. My ongoing learning experience with literacy can be traced back to one simple visit to library.

I learned a lot of things while planning this literacy night. First, I learn a lot about literacy night here in the U.S. Second, talking to the librarian was a great chance to improve my knowledge about those events and how to do it and what it attracts students and parents to attend the event. I also learn that it would be very good to engage parents with their children to give them opportunities to become more involved in schools. Also, event like this would make children motivation to read increases. I also appreciate the hard work that librarians do to give families and their children positive chance to have fun and read together. They spend their extra time to organizing and planning for events like that. So we should thank them and reward

The first challenge was to understand what the essay topic is going to be about. When I began to write the literacy narrative, I thought about my first book that I read. However, I didn’t know if I could expand the story and add some vivid details. I decided to switch my topic and write about the TOEFL test preparation, since that had happened couple years ago and it was still fresh in my memory.

Have you ever played a video game that you strive to beat the highest score, but try after try you fail each time? Well, that’s much like my literacy experience. Paper after paper, I had been unsuccessful yet for some reason I continued turning them in. Growing up, I realized I took advantage of the importance of reading and writing. Eventually, I learned the real challenge of perfecting a paper during my ninth grade year in honors English. When I started the class, I was in the habit of turning in terrible first drafts as my finals. I was in a comfortable state with putting little effort and time into my work, yet still wanting to achieve a high grade. Teachers practically participated in this by passing me without helping me in my struggle

Literacy, the ability to read and write, is the backbone and overall structure to learning any type of information. It is something that is dynamic and complicated. Literacy can’t be pinned down to simply reading directly from a book or perhaps composing words onto a piece of paper. It is far more complex than that. Levels of literacy are affected by Literacy Sponsors, which are the influential people and elements in your life that have affected or facilitated your literacy and developed it thereafter. In Sponsors of Literacy by Deborah Brandt, she emphasizes that, “Sponsors are delivery systems for the economies of literacy, the means by which these forces present themselves to-and through-individual learners” (167). Each of the sponsors’

In general, the first time that I utilized this kind of literacy practice in the aspect how I see it now was in the United States. Even though I have studied in my home country the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but it was not like the way looked the education now. It is very different because of the community in both sides. Her in the United States the quality of education much higher.

The value of this guided reading module is that is provided an in-depth guide to guided reading instruction. I like that it showed me each step in the process from selecting groups, classroom management, and what students should be doing before reading, during reading and after reading. The videos provided concrete examples of what students should be doing at every stage of the reading process, the skills built from the previous level of lesson and it flowed. The “You Try” section was a little more difficult because I had a hard time understanding the level system that program used.

I’m writing an analysis of “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison. It is told from the first person point of view. This is a story about a young African American named Ralph Ellison, who is trying to be accepted by white society. He is offered the opportunity to read his speech he had written for his graduation at a gathering of the town’s leading white citizens (p.286). Ralph Ellison is told that he should partake in the Battle Royal before giving his speech as part of the entertainment. The Battle Royal is a fight in which several young African American boys are blindfolded, given boxing gloves, and forced to fight each other until one person is left standing in a boxing arena. There are no time

Literacy is defined as being literate, that is, being able to read and write in a language. My personal experience with literacy began at an early age, at the age of 4 when I began to sit and read words and letters in the back of my mother’s car. Soon enough, she would bring me a magazine called “Majed” which, in the 90’s, was a popular magazine. With this, I began even more interested in reading and writing and reviewed every word in the magazine associated with each of the short pictured stories. It was the first memory I deeply recall of literacy and it was what laid the foundation for my personal love of reading and writing. The methodology used for this is an interview. There are three interviews which are analyzed and brought together in the form of a narrative. This narrative serves to better explain the emotions and thoughts that the interviewees had about the idea of literacy.

Educators are charged with not only teaching the content of their subject, but also responsible for creating a learning environments that fosters communication, engagement, and reflection so that the students will be prepared for their future careers and learning. Creating a classroom that fosters reading and writing is one way to engage students while promoting that they reflect on the material and communicate their understanding or misconceptions of the content. In order to form a literacy-rich classroom educators need to increase the amount of time students interact with all forms of print and literacy and the classroom environment is an essential key to setting the precedent and model behaviors that will make students more successful and capable of high level learning. (Tyson, 2013)

Before he reaches puberty, the narrator is oblivious to the differences between his peers and himself – he simply assumes that everybody else is just

Children’s Literature helps the children to understand themselves, others and the world around them (Thibault, 2014). Eric Velasquez mentioned that “Once a child sees himself represented in a book, his existence is validated, and he feels that he is part of the world.” (Velasquez, Para. 2, 2014). Research over the years revealed how the children’s life experiences are reflected in different literatures. (Flint, Kitson, Lowe, & Shaw, 2014). In the twenty first century, children’s literature is not only about reading books. The way of teaching children to read and write is characterised by being intellectually complex, engaging, challenging and interactive. These days, the children are into digital and multimodal technologies that promote open ended possibilities for meaning making and interpretation (Flint, et al., 2014 ; Kress, 2003).

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I had signed up for this class. I was searching for general education classes to fill up my schedule this semester and this one happened to show up, so I signed up for it. What would happen over the course of the semester is something that I wouldn’t have ever imagined. Over the semester my thoughts on reading, literacy, and people as a whole have changed due to this course.