Students will understand what the word “prediction” means and learn to make educated guesses based on both prior knowledge or experience and new knowledge. Good readers use things such as texts, titles, pictures, and prior knowledge to make educated guesses before, during, and after they read. Taking an educated guess means making a prediction. Predictions can be made at any point of the story. After making perditions, good readers should be able to read through the text and confirm their predictions. Making predictions involves the students using their prior knowledge and newly obtained knowledge from the text. According to teachervision.com, “Making predictions activates students' prior knowledge about the text and helps them make connections …show more content…
The students will understand what making predictions are and how to make them through explicit teaching and modeling. The teacher will think out loud and model the process of making predictions before, during, and after reading. The teacher will state, “Hmm, based on the title, I believe this book will be about the ancient Egyptians, their culture, and their daily life. I know this because I used the title and the picture on the front as a clue.” The students will be told that when we use what we know to make an educated guess we are making predictions. During our read aloud the teacher will model from The Ancient Egyptians by Rosemary Rees how to make predictions. Making predictions ensures that the children are constantly thinking and wondering what will happen next and why. When students improve their prediction skills they will gain a better understanding of what they are reading. Making predictions is also a …show more content…
Also, students’ developing comprehension skills as they complete a graphic organizer predicting what would happen if the Nile River did not exist, and why Egypt is called “the gift of the Nile” after reading The Ancient Egyptians. My students will learn to work in groups and support one another to achieve a common
This task should be fun and interesting for the students. It is my hope that this activity proves to be successful for my students and helps them to understand the necessary learning objectives set forth.
The prologue of a novel plays a crucial role in introducing the setting of the story. The prologue also sets the tone of the tale and can sometimes hide vital information from the reader. The art of foreshadowing is often used in the prologue, and after reading through the story, reverting back to the prologue can help connect the many themes and motifs that are prevalent throughout the narrative. A high-quality example of a prose with a prologue that is riddled with underlying foreshadowing is The Assault, by Harry Mulisch. By analyzing a single passage of the prologue and comparing it with other small potions of the text, the foretelling of events in the prologue of The Assault by Harry Mulisch can easily be related to how Anton believed the killing of his family was a simple affair, when in reality, it was a more complicated incident than
Both 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale are dystopian novels, however, these books are a lot more complex than mere portrayals of dystopia, it can be argued that they are explorations of dystopia rather than mere portrayals. In order to explore dystopia, many themes must be considered, such as; feminism, love and repression. Nonetheless, it is apparent that human characteristics are the driving point of the two novels, predominantly, the depiction of human resilience. In an imperfect world, it is important to have certain qualities which, if plentiful, it can mean success, whereas if it lacks, it can mean failure, this characteristic is resilience. The protagonists in each novel, Winston in 1984 and Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale face situations which leave them both in disarray, and both even consider suicide. The authors tentatively highlight human resilience, its limits and most importantly its strengths into the two novels.
“‘They score! Henderson has scored for Canada!’” Foster Hewitt wordlessly described” (Pelletier) when Paul Henderson scored the series-winning goal. This allowed Canada to win the 1972 Summit Series, a moment that no one would ever forget since it all happened during the climax of the Cold War. Prior to this, the Soviets had won the previous three Olympic gold metals since Canada could not use its NHL players. Thus, this provided Canada with the chance to play hockey against the USSR using its best players. This raised the question: if Canada were able to send its best players, would it still be enough to beat the Soviets? Everyone in Canada was certain that the Soviets would not win a single game, but little did they know they underestimated the extent of the Soviets abilities. Tied in the last few minutes of game eight, Canada had to score or they would lose the series. However, when Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal, never before had a single sporting event meant so much to Canadians. Therefore, Paul Henderson’s goal is a defining moment for Canada in the twentieth century becauseit provided Canada with the opportunity to evolve hockey, proved that Canada and our democratic society were superior to the USSR and their communist society, and brought citizens together to unify Canada as a nation.
Books might seem like reading and flipping pages, but there is more. What is special about books is the author uses many literary devices to get inside the reader's brain. This is what happens in foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a warning or indication of a future event. Foreshadowing is not obvious, but when readers notice it, it makes them think and realize. In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, foreshadowing is used for Johnny killing Bob and the church catching fire. In Kurt Vonnegut, Jr’s Harrison Bergeron foreshadowing is used for Harrison’s death. Although both S.E. Hinton in The Outsiders and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr in Harrison Bergeron use foreshadowing, S.E. Hinton uses foreshadowing more effectively because it is more obvious, it is used more
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
List any special features of your school or classroom setting (e.g., charter, co-teaching, themed magnet, remedial course, honors course) that will affect your teaching in this learning segment.
...ents to make a good reader. Therefore, without a certain piece of reading students skills the scaffolding is unstable. Due to a student’s faulty scaffolding, reading does not work cohesive to make the end product a successfully understood story. This concerns me. If I feel like they are falling behind on these skills and their other teachers, my colleagues, are not teaching them these skills, I will and do my best at making it appropriate for my class. Without reading skills, they will be faced with horrible ramifications from their problems to comprehend and understand the vocabulary words they see in their textbooks.
To begin, we as teachers must appeal to children’s interests when creating a successful classroom. These means all activities that are planned in the classroom should be based on not only the teacher’s interest, but also
The understandings I have gained from this course have completely revamped my way of teaching. I have been using the unit plan and curriculum map I created in this course for the past two years, and my students enjoy it more and more each year. Learning the importance of using big ideas and essential questions in the classroom have made me a better educator and has assisted my students in learning content and skills that they can transfer to all academic areas and into their everyday lives. I now use big idea and essential questions in every ...
Resources are designed to support us as teachers to plan, deliver and assess our teaching and lesson delivery. All the materials and books, a variation and diversification of approaches, resources used for different learning styles, in order to meet the needs of all my students were contributing to the professional development and continuing education. Preparing visual prompts to stimulate, the use of colour in my slides, always helped to stimulate the interest and emphasise the key points in my teaching. However, computer-based technology, provided opportunities to develop ICT skills. Thus, through class sessions and little practice students were developing skills to use it, and create professionally looking and visually stimulating slides. As teachers, we must be willing to encourage our students to become active participants in their learning, creating opportunities to actively engage all
It is important that I stay on the right track with the framework for the 21st century learning process. My lesson plan relies on this learning process. “A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future” (P21, n.d., para.7). While this project and lesson is made for students to have fun with learning, it also has a way in teaching them life lessons. This is what education is all about.
I will try to prepare my lesson 100% to enhance learning. I will try to research my topic and try to integrate different resources and activities to make my lesson engaging and interesting to my students. I am able to use a variety of methods to teach a lesson to the students. This helps the students to get engaged visually, physically and verbally. I did not know, but I really like to use different resources and art materials to create something that will enhance my lesson and able to engage my students throughout the lesson. By creating and using a variety of methods and activities during the center time, I can meet the student’s needs to help them to learn.
Instead, EL students benefit in learning new content knowledge when an instructor methodically produces a lesson with a systematic I do you do approach; while purposely adding visuals whenever possible. Modeling content knowledge can be accomplished when the instructor writes the objective or provides an outline of what the lesson entails in student friendly vocabulary for each lesson where students can visually see. Next, the instructor should discuss what the end goal of the lesson is through hand gestures and changing the speed and tone of the voice to elaborate key concepts. Additionally, teachers should provide visual vocabulary whenever possible. Playing videos, word walls, or showing pictures of key vocabulary in a lesson will help students who struggle with differences in language grasp what is being asked of them more clearly. Lastly, instructor should show examples of projects and essays for reference. This will allow EL students to visualize the end product; allowing them to organize their ideas and
Getting children to work together on projects which require problem solving is a great way for them to interact with each other and learn mathematical concepts on the way. It will also help them to boost their communication skills. Teachers can also facilitate learning by scaffolding the children’s learning and offering guidance when needed. Getting children to talk about what they are doing and what their plans are actually helps them to learn. Through their projects, children will learn to describe the mathematical concepts that they present using different materials. For example, drawing a house for art class, they learn the names of the different kinds of shapes that make up a