It was a long time before I realized if I wanted to do better for myself, I would have to take the initiative read to educate and become knowledgeable. Once I got married and had my own child it seemed my dream of becoming a lawyer would never come to be. But I became more in my child’s eyes I was not only her mother but a teacher. I was able to pass on the stories my mother shared with me, as well as many other stories. I also passed along the passion to read and write.
The book I chose for my independent reading project is called “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. The project I chose to do is a book box because the book I’ve read has a lot of items that correspond to the events and characters in my book. The items I have chosen from my book is a journal, a diaper, a ring, a cell phone, and a pregnancy test. The first item I chose was a journal. The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her.
And even before that my mother would read to me every night before I go to sleep. She would have this big book filled with Mother Goose nursery rhymes and would read that along with some other books. When I started to talk my parents taught me the alphabet which seemed pretty easy. It wasn’t long before I could say the entire alphabet on my own. The next thing my parents taught me was to put the letters and sounds together to
I believe most of my literacy was all dependent on my Mom’s ability to help me make these connections, especially with reading. Once I could make the connection between what the word was and what the object was it was immediately placed in my mind. It was almost like learning by osmosis because we are placed in a society today where everything is based off of language. It is all around you just have to listen to it and pay attention.
“I couldn’t really believe it,” Frances said. “Once I got into the process, I was more interested in the actual topic matter, and not really focused on whether this would get published or not. … I was just really surprised and shocked. I guess I still am. Holding it is, like, ‘what?’ ” Frances credits her teacher not only for her notes in the margin in all six of those early drafts, but also for the encouragement to keep going.
Some instructional strategies that Mrs. Mills used in the classroom included reading aloud a picture book, guided reading sessions, and peer-reading. It was easy to tell that most of the students were receptive to the teacher and learning. However, I spotted one or two of the students just mimicking what other classmates where doing. Every one of the students I observed loved hands on learning, and Mrs. Mills took advantage of this every chance she could. She uses the constructivist approach to learning by using prior knowledge to enhance learning and scaffolding techniques.
My Writing History When I was a small child I was exposed greatly to poetry as my mother was a very skillful poet. From an early age I learned not to conform or constrict writing, in a sense if you feel it write it freely. This is how my mother wrote every poem in her vast collection and how she began to teach myself and my brothers as children to be creative and free with anything we wrote. Of course as we grew older this particular style of writing grew to cause many problems going through school with our teachers and our writing assignments. I can remember going through middle school writing summarizations of books or short stories, usually dreadfully boring ones that you didn’t wish to read much less re-write any type of summarization.
The books I check out at the LRC were interesting. The first Books I read were “Basket” by George Ella Lyon. I thought this book was fitted for young school aged children. This book would be categorized as a narrative poem. The author seems to tell a story about her grandmother and her basket that she always has with her.
By providing Aria and her classmates with such useful writing tips, it allowed Aria to use it in her literacy narrative, “The Melting Pot of Writing”; she provided each opinion and or experience with supporting claims or explanations. Good writers always supply the reader with supporting details and reasoning for ones thoughts or actions. As you read the “The Melting Pot of Writing,” you’re able to imagine the experiences, hear the repeating of the letter sounds, and actually visualize the classroom situations as she expressed them in her
How I learned to read or write… Trying to remember how I learned to read or write is hard for me. I don’t know why either. To get some help to refresh my memory I started to go through my elementary school papers. I’m so happy my mom saved my early education moments. Without those papers I would be lost trying to recall what happened.