Week 3 Post

I really felt that Gibbons had a lot of good stuff to say about reading that related to my field classroom. The Scaffolding book spoke a lot about having students fluent in reading by grade three, and the majority of my classroom is fluent in reading. My CT has them reading silently, aloud, and as a class. They are constantly editing and producing books, which they read aloud to their classmates and have in their classroom libraries. Also, the chapter spoke of how ESL students should read aloud rather than write to effectively develop their literacy skills. I have three ESL students in my field classroom, one ESL student in particular is struggling because he just moved here from Korea. He works one on one a lot with my CT and practices reading and editing his book before he shares it with the class. I think reading to the class really encourages him to work on his reading and overall improves his reading. Overall, I really enjoy how well my CT goes about teaching literacy effectively in the classroom. He makes sure it is everywhere in the classroom, which I think is great to do because literacy is so integrative. I don’t like when students simply work off to themselves, because I think literacy should be apart of the whole class more than an individual activity.