Elementary Classroom Observation

My observation period has been focused on elementary level education. The students have generally ranged between the ages of five and eight years old. Furthermore, the learning objectives have ranged from number identification and counting to the beginning stages of learning to read. Each morning started in the Subjects of Reading and Writing. This allowed for a gentle introduction into the days lessons. This was shown to help improve the students’ performance and attention level throughout the day. In the elementary setting I observed this would include being read to by the teacher or silent reading. They students and teacher would then discuss the story schema to help ensure understanding. The students would be asked to identify the stories main characters, conflict and resolution, and plot. In the early

The teacher would task the students with picking out rhyming words and counting syllables. I noticed some of the students would find this task more daunting than others and would require more attention and instruction. While observing the middle to older elementary classrooms the student’s ability to use their sight vocabulary was profound. I found it so fascinating the reading abilities between the younger and middle to older children. What was even more impressive was the deference in the abilities between students just one or two years apart. The students were easily able to recognize words that they had previously had issues understanding or reading. One student in particular had been diagnosed with dyslexia. After attending the tutoring program Read Write Think, the student was able to help with the child’s reading disability considerably. They student was not as advanced as the other students however, had progressed considerable from the starting point. I believe part