I have been a fan of Patricia Polacco for several years now. I did an author study on her for one of my undergraduate classes and have admired and enjoyed her work ever since. I was excited when I found out I would be reading one of her books for a graduate class. My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother.

Thoughts and Reflections About Teaching Reading. 1 On page 182, Walczyk discusses compensatory mechanisms and the conditions under which they may be used.

This is a North Carolina concrete poem that I completed with my class. We started by listing facts that we knew about North Carolina and we wrote them on the board. Next, we put a blank sheet of paper over a map of North Carolina and write the facts line by line. My students loved this! Reasons I love Brandon. I love my best friend. I feel like a princess.

How to Write a Memoir By William Zinsser. Acting it out and telling the moment step by step with body movements is a strategy I will be trying out in my own class with my next writing class. I feel that it is.

As a fourth grade teacher, I realize the complexity of reading instruction. The studies that have been presented and shared in this class have outlined the various components of reading and how they are integrated. Vocabulary is a reading component that has many educators, including myself, puzzled.

I wonder now how much my former students have missed out on? The Construction Integration Model.

Dylans last birthday with his dad. There are a few things that I really do not like! September 13, 2009. Hello, my name is Misty Mistretta! This is my 10th graduate class at ASU. I am currently a third grade teacher at Casar Elementary School, in Cleveland County. This is my sixth year of teaching! I have taught first grade for four.

My son does this all the time. He is a slight dyslexic, however, he is in honors classes, because he has learned how to strategize and rethink his processes differently. 1 Who is Luke? Provide a brief description of the child. Do you have kids like Luke in your own class? Grade level. He made 1s on his EOGs in 3.

Working in a high poverty school, I encounter students everyday that do not have the vocabulary or the background experiences to understand text. These articles mentioned above fully encircle my job for these children. Not only do I need to teach the skills to decompose the written word, I have.

Grade I need to begin where they are at and that may be starting with the simple building block of decoding. The purpose of this study was to show the growth of different aged readers with the use of three different context conditions.