Week 8 writing community ( What contributes an effective writing programs

Discuss the components of an effective writing program and why they are important?
1. Important writing program will be writing about personal connections, inventions, and conventions.

How might you rearrange your schedule to create more time for students to write in general and, in particular, for students to write about their personal experiences?
2. I can maybe use their social studies or any other subject and create time for students to write about their persocal experiences. For example, if a student left the country to visit another country the students may want to write on how the experiences that observed in that particular place.

How can you create ways for students to make personal connections in different subject areas through writing?
3.Students can write about whats going on in their own life. Write about what they have interst in. Also students may want to write what country there from and the background of that country that can be use for social students and writing.

How can student work help you decide which conventions to teach?
4. It depends on what the student is strougleling. If a student or a group of students have trouble identifying their pass and future tense the teacher know exactly of what to focused with that student or particular students.

When can you promote student inventions and experimentation with different formats in writing?
5. When the student is familiar with their writing.( not sure about this one)

Student Profile sheet

I have watch Hallie she is in the third grade. Hallie is an ESL student. Theres is no background on her reading level. Hallie was first asked to read a word list on the story "Mouse in a House". In this story Hallie's concepts questions was a 65 percent. Her number correct of explicit was 3 and number of correct implicit was 1 and total of 4. In a level one Hallies is reading at a Instructional level. Hollie then was giving a story at a second level. Her story was "Whales and Fish". Hallies concept questions scores a percentange of 22. Her miscues led her to be at a level of Frustration. I belive that hollie would need to work with her teacher and her ESL teacher and also she would have to read on her own time, that way she will be at the correct level.

COCA

I believe that COCA is a great source of assessment. It will help comprehend the information in the text. COCA measures comprehesion strategy, knowledge of imformation in the text, comprehension of graphics in the context of the text and also vocabulary. I would like to use this method of assessment in my future class, because it will help me understand the students more and how well they comprehend the text. There is many more sources of assessment, but COCA really helps teacher understand their students more and i would use it in my future class.

Christopher Myers

I thought that this video clip send a really good message to students and even teacher. The way he explain how he wrote his stories base on his life and like he said everybody has a story to tell, this can relate to students. Most of the students would be motivated to read his books and even write a book or a story themselves. I thought it was a good idea to bring the author to the class because that will be also a motivation to the students. My question is why do you think Christopher Myers interact with the students the way he did and wrote a story with the students?

Creating a home reading program !

I have chosen creating a home reading program. I found this podcast very interested and helpful. I feel that every student should read not only in school but also at home. I feel that this matter is very important because most of the students in a classroom would comprehend any reading assignments without difficulty. For example, myself I am not a reader at all I have difficulties reading any article or books given to me, I feel that’s because growing up I never had a teacher that would motivate me to read in or out of school. Also because I have a mother that doesn’t speak English and never really understood what I was doing in school, so she really wasn’t able to help me and support me on reading any types of books or helping me with any assignment. I feel that an effective teacher needs to motivate the student to read books and communicate with the parents at home, given the parents reading assignments to give to the students when they are at home or even letting the student read a book, newspaper, or even magazines. That would help the student with vocabulary, comprehension, and also the skill that the student would gain from reading.

Response to Intervention

This article was about RTI. This article really talks about how Response to Intervention is use in the classroom. It also breaks down the process in RTI. It shows the different steps of the process. I believe that Response to Intervention is important because it identifies the students with disabilities in an early period of time to the teacher in the classrom.