Reading Information On Mini Lessons And Guided Reading

The question that I have chosen for my inquiry project is: How can you improve performance in a first grade classroom with Guided Reading? I am interested in this since I teach first grade. As a first grade teacher I am always looking for ways to improve my class’s performance. Guided reading offers support to the students as they are learning. Rogoff suggested that “adults support children’s learning by structuring the task’s difficulty level, jointly participating in problem solving, focusing the learner’s attention to the task, and motivating the learner.” (Frey & Fisher, 2010, 84).

There was such a variety of topics covered in this course and I wish that I had taken it in a classroom instead of online. With this online course, I feel like the material went a little too quickly. If I were in a classroom setting, I feel that

Many of the concepts you will be learning throughout this course are best understood as well as more interesting if you

I liked everything about this course. The seminars, study plans, and the weekly discussions help

     In conclusion I really have learned a lot in this class and really has helped me to manage my time better

2. Explain why you took this course and what you hope to learn from it.

Reflect on what you have learned in this course and discuss how it might influence your work as a professional

Before taking this course I was really excited about what I am going to learn. And I was right! This course is not only interesting but it is also helpful. I have learned that the grade I am having right now is the reflection of my try throughout the entire semester.

I learned that it is important to get students settled into their independent work before beginning to start with guided reading group. This helps teacher catch any potential issues a student might have while working with another group and help set up students up for success in being independent problem solvers. I also liked that learner’s notebooks, reflections and visuals that this program used to scaffold students and promote metacognition. These ideas that are different strategies that were not covered in the Richardson text that I think could be easily adapted to my students at the middle school level.

Building vocabulary is an important task in the early grades. There has long been debate on how one should go about teaching vocabulary such as, it is better to teach a limited number of words fully and more intense or expose children to many words to enhance “incidental learning”. Research has proven that incorporating both into instruction is most effective. Read-aloud and teachers increase use of vocabulary have also been proven to help vocabulary and word knowledge. There are three tiers of words that children are presented in their life. Tier one words are those that they are most familiar with such as park, tier 2 are the increasingly hard words such as fortunate and finally the tier 3 words are words that students have rarely been exposed

In addition to the vocabulary in their readings, students have been expected to learn twenty-five new vocabulary words per week. The focus is not on rote memorization of definitions; students must know synonyms, antonyms, and especially how to use vocabulary words in the context of the entire sentence. They study how to choose the right word for their purpose (diction) and analyze the subtleties of language.

If you give me an opportunity, I will participate the class as well as I can and I will do my best.

From this course I have learned what pre-reading really is. I had always thought that pre-reading was actually reading all of the material assigned, so I would never do if before lecture. It was interesting to learn about the different types of note taking. Sometimes using the same style can get boring, so trying out new formats really helped! My favorite thing that I learned about this course was “smart test-taking strategies”. Although, I have been afraid to apply some of those skills to my exam, I have noticed how they really work when doing practice NCLEX-RN questions.

Although vocabulary is the sub-skill of a language, it plays a very important role in language learning and teaching. In fact, vocabulary is central to language and is of paramount importance to language learners. On the other hand, words are the building blocks of a language that are used to label objects, actions, and ideas. In other words, people cannot convey the intended meaning without knowing vocabulary. It is widely accepted that vocabulary is a very important part in English language learning because no one can communicate in any meaningful way without vocabulary. As McCarthy (1990) stated, the single, biggest component of any language course is vocabulary. Nation (1990) also affirms that vocabulary can be considered as the most important element in language learning because Learners think that many of their

Use of visual materials. The classroom is full of billboards, flash cards, big images, cardboards which from what I observed are suitable to teach vocabulary. They enjoy visual activities such as pointing things in a cardboard, etc.