Emergent Literacy: New Perspectives
I have a to admit after reading this article I couldn't feel but overwhelmed as I didn't realize how much thought and effort went into reading, at the same time excited as I had just witnessed half of the examples described in the article, in my main placement. Of course I always knew that reading was important that students should start reading as early childhood, but there was one sentence that struck me. "Rather than teaching reading and writing in an early childhood program, our focus should be on teaching children to read and write." (page 6 & 7) This statement reminded me of a time in my September Experience, as I witnessed a teacher become easily upset and started putting blame on at the child's early education teacher and the student’s parents. After watching the other teacher create a scene, my teacher pulled me over and stated to never put blame on anyone and to just teach, don’t think about their skills coming in but to focus what you want them to accomplish when they leave in June.
Another concept that I enjoyed in this article was on advice how a classroom should be set up for independent reading. My master teacher has nailed all four topics as her main focal point is the library books in the back next to the open-faced book shelves with all different types of books. During reading group she breaks down the students into small groups of 5, where all students are reading the same story but in different ways. In one group she has the students read to her, one by one. In the other she has either chosen vocab words or word families that the students must practice writing on white boards. In another section she has students drawing an activity that has to deal with the reading and writing down what they are doing. And in the last station, students are listening to the story on tape.
And the last topic I would like to discuss is the idea behind “The Morning Message” where a message is written on the board, recited by the teacher, and then repeated by both the teacher and the students. I didn’t realize why my teacher did that until now. I did honestly assume that it was either filler time or another way of teaching calendar. Either way I did not put in much thought on how important that these little sentences. Now I know.
Council on Interracial Books:
Growing up I remember a book that was read aloud to my class that we all just loved. It was first introduced to me when a substitute teacher, Ms. Flynn, and because we always enjoyed this book and she seemed to be sub until grade 6 we would be beg her to read it every time we saw her. That book is called Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel. We loved that book because she made reading aloud fun. I’ll never forget the way that she would pronounced his name and how she used her voice and facial expressions when something exciting was going to happen. And I remember the moral of the story was, Chinese people do not have long names because for what happened to Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo falling down the well, and how his brother Chang had wasted so much time on saying his name that the villagers could have gotten to his brother in quicker amount of time if Tikki Tikki Tembo had a shorter name.
It wasn’t until college and learning about Asian culture that now I find this book to be stereotypical as it reinforces that Chinese people use random syllables as names and how funny each one sounds. Although I did enjoy that book, I am still torn if it is a book that I will read to my class. Hopefully I’ll have made a decision by the end of this quarter.
Growing up I remember a book that was read aloud to my class that we all just loved. It was first introduced to me when a substitute teacher, Ms. Flynn, and because we always enjoyed this book and she seemed to be sub until grade 6 we would be beg her to read it every time we saw her. That book is called Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel. We loved that book because she made reading aloud fun. I’ll never forget the way that she would pronounced his name and how she used her voice and facial expressions when something exciting was going to happen. And I remember the moral of the story was, Chinese people do not have long names because for what happened to Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo falling down the well, and how his brother Chang had wasted so much time on saying his name that the villagers could have gotten to his brother in quicker amount of time if Tikki Tikki Tembo had a shorter name.
It wasn’t until college and learning about Asian culture that now I find this book to be stereotypical as it reinforces that Chinese people use random syllables as names and how funny each one sounds. Although I did enjoy that book, I am still torn if it is a book that I will read to my class. Hopefully I’ll have made a decision by the end of this quarter.
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