Classroom Community Analysis

It is one of the most important strategy teachers can do with a child. Interactively reading aloud to children has them actively involved in the process. A teacher has the children asking questions and making a prediction. Shared reading helps the students build a framework to draw attention to vocabulary. This read aloud strategy should have carefully thought-out questions. For example, a shared reading activity for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: First, point out the cover of the book. One should point to the words as you read the title, the authors, and the illustrator. According to the Resource in Early Learning, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has a lively musical rhythm. As you read, emphasize the beat and rhythm of the words. Have the children join in the lines that repeat. It is also important to point to each letter as you read. After reading the book ask questions such as, “What happens when all the letter get to the top of the tree” or “Let’s count the

Early reading success is the foundation of a student’s knowledge and self-esteem. The foundation also provides future opportunities for growth. Students must learn to read proficiently so that they are able to learn more in future grades, post-secondary schools, and the workforce. Beverly Tyner’s Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers states “In the United States, which offers few career opportunities for the illiterate, teaching children to read proficiently is the most important single task in education.” (Tyner, 2009). Beverly Tyner created the Small-Group Differentiated Reading Model which incorporates research-based strategies for teaching beginning reading skills and skills

This is a very important component in education to be aware of and when you are a teacher. I interviewed a first-grade teacher at my local elementary school to gain more information about the processes that our local schools go through for professional training, interventions, and in the classroom to ensure that students are developing their abilities in reading. My main focus was on what our school’s process was, how support is given, professional training offered, and what more is needed to be done to increase success for students.

On the outskirts of the city, Roxbury is a hub of African American community in the Boston area. While the neighborhood is predominantly low income with many unemployed residents, and the high density population has led to a high crime rate, many vibrant, optimistic youth reside in Roxbury. Despite maturing in this difficult neighborhood, many teens from Roxbury have impressive goals for their futures and work with Roxbury Youth Program to find success. By offering a safe place for high school students to thrive, RYP addresses social injustice issues of achievement gaps.

As students, we looked at the social and cultural groups at PPCC to investigate their impact on diversity in the school. We wanted to see how diversity is promoted in the social and cultural groups at school and ways the school tries to promote the groups. “Many students are concerned about finding a place where they belong, as they enter college. Colleges are seeking to foster diversity by encouraging cultural clubs" (Campus Explorer.com, 2015). Diversity is something that is valuable on college campuses, because it allows students to be introduced to new cultures and ideas the students may not have known previously.

All students are involved in the process. Today, we used varied text to learn about homelessness and poverty. There were narratives, pictures, and videos to teach these two concepts. With my struggling readers as well as with my stronger readers, I can play a BrainPOP video to teach many science concepts and use leveled texts to teach science concepts. In addition, there is the National Geographic for Kids which has pictures and articles that can be used in science classrooms. Furthermore, there are books to conduct Read Alouds in the classroom. Students can be placed in groups according to reading levels and assigned various texts to read. These activities keep students’ attention and ultimately improve their

When I entered the third grade, I had a preschool aged child’s reading level. That was about four years behind my peers. With the new reading program in place and myself gaining a love for reading, I started to broaden my realm of books that I would try and attempt to read. By the end of the school year I was reading small chapter books on a fifth grade reading level. This greatly increased my confidence for reading and was no longer embarrassed to share my accomplishments. I was able to read material that left my mind in an imaginative place. I realized through reading at this age how much of a vivid imagination I truly had. I was able to paint a picture in my head as I read almost like a movie. This greatly helped with my level of reading comprehension as I dove into more difficult reading

The artifact that demonstrates the type of reading program I want in my future classroom is the book “Don’t Laugh At Me” by Steve Seskin, Allen Shamblin and Glin Dibley, and the song that goes with it. This book is a great resource to create an inclusive learning environment in the classroom which is essential for any program to be successful. Our classrooms are very diversified, with students belonging to different cultures, traditions, beliefs and backgrounds, as well as having different abilities, learning styles and needs. This book emphasizes on the fact that we all are different and have different strengths and weaknesses. When developing a reading program in the class, teachers should understand that students have varying needs, and hence they should adapt the instruction to meet those specific needs.

Children can take more than one of these steps at the same time. This list of steps, though, gives you a general idea of how your child will progress toward reading.” (Helping your child become a reader) While these ideas may seem structured, it is also important to allow children to be creative and use their imagination. Although reading is imperative, too many arrangements and rules can turn a child off and lead to feelings of resentment, anger, and resistance. Reading should be set to the tone and pace of the child.

I have spent a lot of time reading with children. I have four children of my own and two nieces and one of my favorite ways to spend time with them is reading. I learned early on that children love to listen to stories and be read to. Since I read regularly with six different children, I learned that all children learn at different rates and in different ways. My first born child learned to read on his own and very quickly. I assumed this was the norm, until I had my second child. My daughter struggled with some of the sounds and letters and I learned that I had to teach her how to read differently than I had her older brother. I also learned that some children are more motivated than other children. I had to come up with different ways to encourage the less motivated child.

As teachers we need to make sure we are placing our students in groups where they can thrive and build their literacy knowledge with the close reading

At the Reading Partners organization has visualize that all children have the right gain of reading skills necessary to reach their potential needs. In addition, the mission is to help children constant reading skill by providing individuals with need help with. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses,

Families are often encouraged to provide a variety of reading material for their children, especially at an early age, to give children plenty of options when learning how to read. When children are provided with a variety of reading material at home, they see that a high value is placed on reading. If parents value reading at home, children tend to value it also, and the more a child is encouraged to read at home, the more they will want to engage in reading in general. By being involved in their child’s reading development, parents can give their children a firm foundation to reading prior to entering grade school which will lead to a lifetime of reading enjoyment and

As a young college freshman student who has just began his course through life, I have been fortunate enough to be able to expand my boundaries on the communities of people that I interact with, so much so that when it comes to differentiating between them in terms of the way I communicate through writing, I find that my demeanor, vocabulary, and use of language vary with a high degree. Predominantly, four of these differing communities with which I interact that show this high degree of difference are: my research group, my community of BUILDing SCHOLARS (a scholarship program), my community of UTEP students, and my family.

I believe all children can learn to read in a classroom that is integrated with differentiated instruction and has a safe and engaging learning environment which is rich with a variety of literature to light that spark in the children to want to learn. I will make an effort to get to know my children in order to be able to provide a classroom library with nonfiction books to inform the inquiring mind, picture books for the artistic mind, and fiction books to entertain. All books will be chosen based on their curiosity, interest, personal connection, and learning profile, in order to attract and enchant the young readers into going back to the book area again and again.