Today we watched a video of a lady reading one of Patricia Polacco's book "Thank You Mr. Falker" I truly enjoyed the book because as a child I struggled with learning to read and was very nervous because I wasn't learning as fast as other children. I also did not like to read aloud because like Patricia in the book I stumbled over the words and had difficulty trying to read , but when I had to read aloud my reading just seemed to get worse because I was so nervous about what the students would say. I think this book is awesome to use in a classroom because it can help students see that sometimes everyone struggles and it is okay because eventually you will catch up and find your place. It also shows teachers to be aware of your students and learn to pay attention to their needs.
Next we took a trip to the curriculum library where we were able to learn about all the valuable resources we can use to help us with our studies. Tiffany was very helpful and informative while discussing the resources that are available for us to use.
To end the class we went to a computer lab upstairs from the library where we were able to discuss the expectations of what we will be doing during the course. I was glad that we went over blogging again because it has been a while since I have done a blog and I forgot how to use the blogging app
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Once upon a time when I was a child I really
did not enjoy reading due to the fact that I was having
difficulty learning to read. In my home as a young child
reading was not encouraged. Neither of my parents ever read
anything except the newspaper on Sundays which they
mainly got the paper for the sales fliers and the coupons. We
had a few books in our house which were given to us, but they
were never picked up and we (my sisters and I) were never read to as
children. When I started school I knew my alphabet and
numbers up to 10. I knew how to spell my name, but did
not know how to write it. I believe this is part of the reason why I
struggled so much and why I disliked reading when entering school. I was
in remedial reading classes until third grade then for fourth grade I
didn’t have the classes but in fifth grade I had
remedial classes again. In the remedial reading class during
fifth grade the teacher previously had my older sister and did not
like her so from the moment I walked into the class she had a
problem with me! She made it her job each week to
criticize me in front of the entire class and by the time I left I
had tears streaming down my face.
The
first book I remember liking and reading was a book
that was given to my sister from one of her teachers. The
story was “You’re Not my Cat” by Theresa Burns. It was about a cat
that always came to a little girl’s house to play and hang out with the
girl I loved the book because I thought it was so funny that the cat would
go to the girls house every day. When the teachers called upon people to read aloud in class I would sink
down in my seat to hide and pray the
teacher did not call on me. Throughout the upper grades I did not enjoy many
of the assigned readings which
continued my despise for reading.
It was not until college that I started
to like reading and really discover what
types of genres I actually liked
and I started to foster a love
for reading. The first book that I read that I truly liked was “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult. The book was about a school shooting and was told by
parents students and teachers that were either in the school or related
to the students and explains how the
shooting took place over nineteen minutes. Since I read that book I have
started reading all of the author’s
other books and other books in that
genre. I also enjoy reading the informational education books that are
assigned in classes. I love
learning about how to teach
children and the many strategies, tools and assessments that can be used to
help children attain the skills and
information needed to move on .
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