I will identify practices I found to be valuable and those I thought could be improved. During this section I will discuss the Letters and Sounds and the Sounds-Write phonics programmes. I will then reflect on the practices of formative assessment that I have observed being used, highlighting the good points and offering suggestions for improvement for practices I thought were not very effective. Finally, I will conclude my essay and will determine how formative assessment may support pupils’ learning in early reading. Overview of formative assessment Assessment within the education system is an important process and serves many different purposes.
Children are seen as emergent readers and writers, who bring to school with them a whole variety of skills and knowledge with which the teacher can work with. As language and literacy (or English) teachers, it is up to us to analyse and asses the needs of children according to; theories of development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Wilkinson, Luke & Freebody), developmental practices (socio-cultural), prior knowledge (grammar, punctuation, orthography, text-types), establish their skills base (reading [invented spelling], writing) to help determine what phase children are in according to their stage of development, what there ZPD’s are, and thus establish a teaching strategy to help scaffold their learning, giving them the skills to enter society as literate adults, as summed up by Gardner (Gardner & Brockman, 2000): ‘I want people at the end of their education to understand the world in ways that they couldn’t have understood it before their
The key points are to clearly post, refer to, and review learning objectives and language objectives. Multiple levels of English proficiency are set by standards that the students are monitored by model performance indicators. A student’s native language affects his or her language and academic outcomes by being surrounded by other students who are also ELL with the same English acquisition. Students may utilize their home language more in conversations when speaking to classmates who are from the same home language group (Willoughby, 2009). In speaking to other ELL students whose home language is different, ELL students, use English but due to the students’ limitations in their English proficiency, they expose each other to more broken English I will value the instructional power of a word wall by frequently utilizing, maintaining, and updating it.All too often, secondary educators miss important opportunities to build the literacy skills of all students.
This essay will look at these models and how they can be used in a classroom situation to assist students’ learning. The Text code breaker asks, how do I crack this code? The emphasis is on learning and using appropriately the code or conventions of language (2010, as cited in Emmitt, M. Zbaracki, M. Komesaroff, L. & Pollock, J.). Students are encouraged to look for interesting, difficult or tricky words and attempt to work out what they are. Students learn that some words may have the same sound or letter patterns.
Curriculum Guide for Spoken Language Target Grade Level: Fourth (4th) Objective: The student will apply oral communication skills to participate in discussions about learning and collaborative learning projects. Students should be able to use grammatically correct language and specific vocabulary to enhance the learning projects. Virginia Standards of Learning: “4.1 The student will use effective oral communications skills in a variety of settings. a) Present accurate directions to individuals and small
Your ability to think through a project makes you a good short-term planner; you can identify the roles, resources, and time lines needed to complete a project successfully. Your search for results leads you to be highly self-reliant, rather than to depend on others to achieve the quality your want. (2008, Alessandra) In my assessment it is stated that people in the steadiness styles like a slower-pace and are focused on relationships, are open and indirect, unassertive, warm and reliable. They are considered by others as compliant, soft-hearted and acquiescent. (2008, Alessandra) I agree with most of this portion of the assessment I do prefer a slower-pace and focus on relationships.
They use language to explore their own experiences and imaginary worlds.” (http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/primary/b00198874/english/ks1) The National Curriculum gives practitioners/teachers guidance on what a child should lean and be able to do by the end of Key Stage one. During English lessons the children will learn how to communicate confidently and effectively, this will help the development of their communication and language while developing some of the key aspects to their Literacy. Communication is the art of interactions with
These assessments help support their student’s academic achievement and language proficiency. The data taken from the standardized tests is used to help determine student’s percentile score. There are also informal assessments which are combined into two distinctive types of categories: structured and unstructured. Structured consists of helping students improve in writing skills by utilizing a journal from beginning to the end of the school year. Frank Smith, (2004), argues that teachers should model collaboration for their students by participating with them in writing skills for brainstorming, composing, and editing.
Ms. Newton’s style of learning preference was Read/Write. I was not surprised at all by my results because an aural learns information quickly when presented in an auditory way. I enjoy listening to people speak versus a piece of paper. I like the visual. In most cases once I get the visual the paper makes more sense and easier to understand.
The focuses mentioned in this essay relates to personal work experiences; identifying specific goals of instructions. The key concept follows the standard, "What Ideas to target?" The concept I will be following is an understanding of English I. The generalization follows, using concepts that I ask myself, "What knowledge gained will the students have at the end of a lesson, in spite of his or her placement in the tiers?" The students’ benefits, he or she will know the English I, characterizations parts of the language.