EDRG 3321 M&W 12 Independent Reading/ Ch. 14 Literature and the writing process

Chapter 12
Independent Reading

In this chapter we learned about independent reading as an approach that encourages students to select their own books for reading. Teacher guide and support using this approach by helping students make good decisions about what books to read and how to keep records of what they read, and by conferencing with students about their progress. After reading a book independently students respond in myriad ways reflecting their understanding of the book.
How is independent reading organized?
Opening activities
Daily teacher read-aloud
Mini lessons
Quiet Reading Time
Activity Time
Closing sessions







Chapter 14
Students as Authors
Literature and the writing process

In this chapter we learn that writing is a process, and we had to understand that writing is process and we all learn to write through reading. Teacher as writing models because the craft of writing is lifelong learning process.

Writing is a process.....Writing is a process......... !!!!!!!!!


The writing process is on what the students think and do as they write. Writing process had five stages.

1. Prewriting- Think, brainstorm, ideas for you story.
2. Drafting - Write you first draft, put all your ideas in a paragraph.
3. Revising- It is time to edit your story, add or delete what is good or bad.
4. Editing- Read over you story and make sure and make sure that there are no missed mistakes.
5. Publishing- You are done! can share you writing in class

Much if the written on the benefits of a process approach and how to manage and evaluate a good writer’s workshop. Children’s literature plays an important role in the writing process because good books are good writing models and excellent “instigators” for writing ideas.

EDRG 3321 Responding to Literature Chapter 4 &5 Poetry

Responding to Literature

When children make unique personal connection with a story or poem they’re reading, reading the world around them almost disappears as they become totally engrossed in the world created by the story.

Response the reader
Everything about a person influences the way that they respond to literature. Proficient readers are able to pay attention as well as pick up on social nuances in characterization or debate complex issues that they encounter in literature. Students responds from
their own cultural perspective and they generally don’t know that their perspective may differ from characters in the story. Teacher must first recognize and support the active role
Of the reader, constructive perspective or school of thought. Due to differences in culture the reader will generally construct different meanings that are personal to them.

Activities for deepening children’s responses to literature
Writing
Literature response journal
Writing from literature models
Oral responses
Book Talks
Book discussion
Pantomime
Readers Theater
Puppetry



Chapter 5


Poetry


In this chapter introduced some of the common terms people use to discuss poetry as well as typical forms of poetry for children. Poetry is musical language its skip, it signs. It tugs at you with an insistent voice that rings through your head. Poets love the harmony of sounds and rhythm that words create.

Elements of poetry
Rhyme
Alliteration, Assonance, and Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Figurative language
Shape
Insight
Emotional Force

As teacher help their students become attuned to the rhythms and images of poetic language, they find that students begun hearing the poetry all around them.

EDRG 3321 M&W Chapter 6

Traditional Literature


A genre is studied from the perspective of culture: the values, beliefs, ways of knowing and living that characterize a social group. Traditional literature is the written form of stories that are part of the oral tradition of culture. Expressions that are taken from these various stories often become sufficiently common that most members if the cultural group understand them even without knowing the specific stories they come from. Intertextuality referring to story in another context can create bonds, but also problems in a multicultural society.

Literary Elements of Traditional Literature
Plot- are usually simple and often sequential
Setting - are often deliberately vague using descriptions such as “once upon a time”
Characterization-symbolic and are rarely developed as actual people with strengths, weakness, personalities and idiosyncrasies.
Style- expressions of the culture where the story originated.
Theme-they usually feature themes important to the culture from which they originated
Motifs- Literary elements that recurs across many stories
Variants- have come down to us through countless retelling over time, their details have changed and evolved.

EDRG M&W author Profile

Laura Joffe Numeroff born in July 14, 1953 is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known for her work "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". Numeroff began her career she served as her own illustrator, Numeroff's first 9 books were both written and illustrated by Numeroff herself.


If you give a mouse a cookie is a book that everyone read at least one time, its a really good book for children . I like it so much. The repetion , rhyming are good strategies for childs to understand what they read, and the pictures too. This first story of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" ended up as such as hit that it spawned numerous more books that expanded from the mouse to include the characters of a moose, a cat, and a pig.

If you want to read more about her books here is her website:

http://www.lauranumeroff.com/index.htm






Margaret Wise Brown was born in may, 1910. She was an American author of children’s literature, including the books “Goodnight Moon” and the Runaway Bunny. She was an author who wrote classic literature.


You can find more information at:


http://www.margaretwisebrown.com/


Grade Level all ages

EDRG 3321 M&W Author profile

Two author that work together and had great books....

Elizabeth and Victoria Kann are the winners artwork they graced the covers and their covers pages, newspaper, and books. They also illustrated their books and were both New York Times best sellers.

They books:

Pinkalicious gets the blues when her friends decide pink stinks in the colorful follow up to Pinkalicious.Pinkalicious turns a lovely shade of pink in the New York Time bestselling storybook that celebrates being yourself.

Grade level Kinder-3rd


I love they work and the illustrated. You can find more imformation about they work at Elizabeth Kann website at:

http://elizabethkann.com/







Eric Carle was born June 25, 1929 is a children's book author and illustrator who is most famous for his book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”which has been translated into over 47 languages. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 88 million copies of his books have sold around the world.




The story starts with the caterpillar being tiny and hungry. As the story progresses, the caterpillar easily overcomes these conflicts to become a beautiful butterfly. Its a classic children book, the illustration are really good.

You can find more of his amazing works at:

http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

EDRG 3321 Presentations 12-02-04

Both groups did a really good, the themes were spiders I dislike spiders because they are ugly but its was an interesant topic for childrens because they enjoy listened spiders facts, and the activity that they did were very entertaint. The second presentation that we watch and that we dont finish it, was about fairy tales (snow white the true facts), it was very interesant there were things that I didnt know and it was good to learned. For both presentations I only had to said that they did a really good effort. It was great.!!!

EDRG 3321 Author Profile

Jeffrey Patrick "Jeff" Kinney was born in January 1st 1971. He is an American game designer and author of children's books including the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book series. He is also illustrated their own books, I really enjoy his work. He is a really good author the pictures that he draw were amazing.

His books:

Its a book series of aWimpy Kid who shares the daily life and its a really good series for kids and for adults as well.
Grade 4th-12


You can find more information of his work at his website and its really good, I loved so much.

http://www.wimpykid.com/












Another good author and illustrated is Judith Byron Schachner.

She also illustrate her books and she begin to writte childen's books since 1992 and has given numerous presentations. Judith graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1973 with a BFA in illustration and she went straight into the “greeting card factories, which included a stint at Hallmark. For five years she designed cute cards, sad cards, funny cards, and wedding cards. In 1995 Judith wrote and illustrated her first picture book, Willy and May, and has turned out a number of projects since then. “The wonderful thing about my job is that one day I can be writing about history, as I did in Mr. Emerson’s Cook. The next day I’m drawing a wacky old woman for I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie. Or I can bring to life a beloved pet cat in my book The Grannyman. I live in a constant state of 3rd grade bliss - making up stories and drawing pictures.

Couple of her work:



Skippyjones is a little chihuhuhua who is a travieso his adventures are really funy, and the kids who are traviesos really enjoy listened skippyjones adventures.
I love her drawing, and skippyjones too...

You can find more information about this author at:

http://www.judithbyronschachner.com/index.html

EDRG 3321 Author profile

René Colato Laínez was born in Salvador, he is a succeesful latino, he wrote many multicultural such as I Am René, the Boy, Waiting for Papá, Playing Lotería, René Has Two Last Names and The Tooth Fairy Meets El Ratón Pérez. Her picture books have been honored by the Latino Book Award, the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, the California Collection for Elementary Readers, the Tejas Star Book Award Selection and the New Mexico Book Award. he was named “Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch” by latinostories.com. He was a graduate of the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults.


You can find more information about his work at
http://renecolatolainez.com/

Multicultural
K-3rd grade

EDRG 3321M&W Presentations 11/30/09

Both presentation were really good, they explain their material really good, its interesant to view the effort that the teams do in orde to had a good presentation, I enjoy watching both presentation.A really good lecture flows, and they just can't maintain the flow and interteint their audience, both gruups did a funny activity, they handout many material to mantein us bussy. They did a really good job on putting it all togeather and the books were nice, I learned so much during these presentation. The visual material that both grups presents were amazing, its important to had a visual material so that students could enjoy what they see or hear, and at the same time they can had an idea to think and enjoy. Both topics were interesant, as a teacher we had to find a way to teach students about values, friendship, respect, integrity, loyalty and such many other important values that a person should in life.

EDRG 3321 M&W Chapter 13

Chapter 13
Literature Circles

Literature circle are a literature based teaching approach that can constitute an important part of a comprehensive literacy program in K-8 classrooms. Literature circles are a structured reading activity that allows powerful, high-ordered discussion and thinking to go on around good books. Literature circle time is separate and different and special. It is a time for kids to pick, read and discuss their own books, connect with books,take responsibility as readers and group members, construct meaning together begin to debate and challenge one another.
It is a place of informal, energetic, natural conversations about books. In the circles roles are played out in an individual, daily rotating, interwoven, spontaneous and predictable pattern.

What student behaviors occur there?
*animated talk
*seriousness
*passion about novels
*notes and drawings that reflect readers' ideas
*searching and open-ended questions
*reading aloud of favorite passages
*stopping to talk about difficult and powerful words
*constant revisiting of the text
*using specific passages to prove points and settle disagreements

EDRG 3344 T&R Blooming Objectives

Blooming Smart Master Planning

From the lowest to highest

Remembering
TSW identify scientific methods by giving a test at 100% accuracy.
Understanding
TSW classify History event by interpreting outline at 90% accuracy.
Applying
TSW implementing word sentence by writing a diary at 90% accuracy.
Analyzing
TSW comparing nouns and verbs by checklist sentence at 90% accuracy.
Evaluating
TSW experimenting science life by experiment observations at 100% accuracy.
Creating
TSW planning a monologue by create a film at 100% accuracy.

EDRG 3321 M&W SOME BOOKS ON GUIDING AND SHARED READING

SOME BOOKS ON GUIDING AND SHARED READING:

I found some books that helps teacher and students to guiding and shared reading, these books had many strategies for teacher to became aware on guiding students to become a good reader, it also helps to get students to enjoy read.

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis.

Guided Reading: Making it Work (Scholastic Teaching Strategies)
by SCHULMAN

Shared Reading For Today's Classroom: Grades K-2

by Carleen Dacruz Payne

EDRG 3344 STAR TREK

What did captain Picard gain from this experience?

One of the important things that people discovered is communication. Communication is essential for every human without communication the world could be like a stranger world. When communication is removed, it’s like stopping of the revolution of the earth. People act because of communication. We use communication to

transferring and delivering of ideas, information, experiences, etc. A good communication is the way to success. What captain Picard gain from this experice is that communication is essential whether if are a lenguage barriers. Language involves utilizing our skills to understand and converse with others. It is the way we use words and sentences to put together a message with our voice or other alternative communication systems such as sign language, assistive devices, communication boards, body language. We communicate to share our knowledge, our thoughts, our feelings and our ideas with other people.

Read aloud

Read aloud is one of the most valuable and pleasurable experiences beginning readers and writers can have. Read aloud should be part of every child's day.
Story time, circle time, and read aloud offer a chance to model good reading and thinking strategies and to expose young learners to a rich variety of literature. When this exposure is accompanied by supportive and engaging discussions, children are able to extend their world view and develop important critical thinking skills.

Things that as teacher we have to do on reading aloud:

Show the cover of the book and read the title, author, and illustrator.
Talk about the picture on the cover and what the story might be about.
Turn the pages slowly and look at the pictures.

Ask your students to comment on what they see.

During Reading

Create a sense of fun by reading in an expressive voice.
Use your finger to track the words so that students understands the left to right progression and the connection between print and spoken words.
Explain words or parts of the story that your child does not understand.
Pause occasionally and ask a question.
Make predictions.
Discuss the characters.

After Reading

Talk about the story the main idea, characters, experiences in your student’s life that are similar to those in the book.
Listen carefully to your students ideas about the story.

3321 M & W chapter 9

Nonfiction is when the writer is trying to convince you that what they are writing about is a fact. That's not always true, of course. In general, nonfiction writing is the type found in textbooks, newspapers, encyclopedias, "how to" or “to inform” books, instruction manuals, recipes, and scholarly essays. Contrast that with a work of "fiction," which is based out of the writer's imagination. These would be most screenplays, novels, poems, and comics.
When trying to decide between the two, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself, "is this piece of writing true, based on some fact?"
What if your teacher asked you to write an essay about what you did last summer vacation?
That would qualify as non-fiction, usually, and would be if you wrote about what actually happened last summer. But suppose you just made up a bunch of realistic sounding stuff...your teacher would think it was non-fiction, but you would know it was fiction.

Fiction:

o Poem
o Adventure story
o Science Fiction
o Thriller
o short story
o mythology
o folk story
o fairy tale
o Parody
o most movies
o romance novel
o western

Nonfiction stories include:

o Biography
o Autobiography
o Forms and documents
o Legal documents
o Brochures
o Newspapers
o Interviews
o Historical speeches
o Textbooks

EDRG 3344 MGP Descriptive

Poetry

Counting

One penny
Two pennies
Three pennies
Four pennies
Five pennies
Make up nickel
One nickel
Two nickels
Make up Dime
One dime
Two dimes
one nickel
Makes a quarter
One quarter
Two quarters
Three quarters
Four quarters
Makes a dollar
Now you know
I'm learning about money
And which coin is which
Don't forget counting money
How can easy is .

3321 M & W chapter 8

Fiction writing work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact, most often takes the form of the short story the novel both of which are forms of narrative. The word narrative is the technical term for a story told from a particular viewpoint that is built around a climax of action and which tells of a main character called a protagonist. Another important feature of narrative is its structure it has a beginning-middle-ending.

Types of fiction used with children:

Contemporary Realistic Fiction- realistic book have plot, character and settings that might found in a real life.
Historical Fiction- historical novels and short story collections set in periods from the prehistoric to the modern that could actually happen.
Fantasy- Fictional work is categorized as fantasy when it contains elements that are not real.
Science fiction- typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

Elements of fiction

Characterization- is the heart of fiction, is the method used by a writer to develop a character.
Plot- another important element of fiction, the order of events in story.
Theme- is the underlying meaning of the story, is its view about life and how people behave.
Setting- is both where and when a story takes places.
Style- Author use language to compose a story using their own distinct voice.
Point of view- the perspective from which a story is told.

EDRG 3344 Expository

How many ways can you make change for a dollar using nickels, dimes, pennies or quarters?

First using 4 quarters

Second add 10 dimes

Third add 20 nickels

Fourth add 3 quarters, 2 dimes and 1 nickel

Fifth add 5 dimes and 2 quarters

Finally add 10 nickels and 5 dimes

There are many different ways to make a dollar using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

EDRG 3344 Persuasive

Powerpoint

Why is money important?

3 Reasons

1. What is money?
2. What we use the money for?
3. Things to spend money


Money is what people use to buy things that they need
We use money for emergencies needs
We can buy food, toys, candies, playstations, video games, movies.


Conclusion

We use money to buy essential things.

3321 M&W Chapter 7 Picture Books

Chapet 7 Picture books
In this chapter we learned that picture books are essential for everyone, picture books are important because they contribute visual as well as verbal. “Picture books are the marriage of literature and fine arts into a unique literary form.” Pictures books enrich the child's world. They also provide a secondary way for the child to understand the story, they will understand the words but also the pictures. It is a richer experience of story. Picture books are extremely effective learning tools. We can use these books in a variety ways of lessons in our classrooms, performing as plays, puppetry or drama, there are infinitely ways of performing the picture books. The visual images are powerful means to readers; picture books illustrations make an important contribution to this process. I really enjoy read picture books because the arts that those books had its incredible and fun at the same time.

EDRG 3344 NARRATIVE

Comic strip

My narrative Comic Strip

EDRG 3321 EDRG 3321 M&W Traditonal Literature

Traditional Literature books:

I found some books that reflects the traditional Literature.....

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by
Jane Yolen

The book is about traditional Cinderella tale incorporating versions of the story from seventeen different countries.

Children book

You can find more information thrugh the Author's web page

http://www.paulfleischman.net/

Puss in Boots

Author name Malcolm Arthur

Children book

Its a Traditional Fantasy, classic story and so much great illustrations.

http://www.jacketflap.com/bookdetail.asp?bookid=0374361606

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale

Author name Verna Aardema

This West African cumulative tale begins when Mosquito tells Iguana a tall tale. Iguana, rather than listen to Mosquito, puts sticks in his ears and that is when the problem begins.

http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/06jun/6-6aard.html

Children book

EDRG 3344 Talking

Imagine a life without expressing yourself through words.. not so good right!!!!! Well thats why
Talking in the classroom beneftis students in many ways, students can learn from each other, share new ideas, they can express their emotions, their feelings about the subject. Talking helps students to learn more vocabulary, had a better communication with other people, they can learn to listen. In the classroom students can talk in small groups, pairs, discussions, or debates. Teacher need to teach students to talk, communicate, express their feelings, Talking plays an important role in the process of imparting knowledge as well. Talking is a very important aspect of the human life, since it is the communication that helps human beings to connect with each other as individuals.

EDRG 3321 M&W Poetry books

Here some poetry books for children:

Joyce Sidman is the author of many award-winning children’s poetry books.

This Is Just To Say:

Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

MEOW RUFF: A Story
in Concrete Poetry

You can find more of her work in her webpage at

http://www.joycesidman.com/index.html

EDRG 3344 T&R HIGH SCHOOL YEARS!!!!!

High school years!!!!!!!!!!!

Just remember my high school years makes feel any kind of motions, were the most awesome four years of my life. I was enough to do mostly everything, I didn't have any huge responsabilities, I made tons of good memories with my friends.

It was a huge class. I was not a popular girl but I had a small group of true friends, I value all the fun times that I spend with them, I really enjoy the company of my friends, I'm so lucky for having them as a friends, you can't find such nice friends like them, were always supporting me in bad times or good times. We enjoy fun parties, skipping class, homecoming, football games, prom, graduation memories that I will never forget. It was absolutely fun while it lasted. Of course there were plenty of dramas, anger, hatred, fighting, trouble, personal issues and there but they were part of growing up too. If I could live my high school years over again then I definitely would.

EDRG 3321 M&W BOOKS

Jorge Lujan is a writter, musican and architect who was born in Cordoba Argentina and lives in Mexico city. He has published poetry, comics, narrations for childrens.

His books

Multicultural books for kindergarden

Accidente Celete (Sky blue accident)

Colores! (colors!)

Gallo (Rooster)

You can find more information in his webpage

http://www.jorgelujan.com/librosotrosidiomas.htm

EDRG 3321 M&W CHAPTER 3 COMPREHENSION

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 deal with Reading Comprehension, understanding what you reading, some readers just read words without really knowing what it's all about. If we can read and understand what we reading, that's comprehension. The role of a teacher is to activating prior knowledge to readers, improving their reading skills, prequestions of what they read, motivated readers to think of what they read. Reading comprehension is one the most important skill that we need to had in order to become a good reader. Teacher must expose students as much new vocabulary as possible, to improve the comprehension of struggling reader teacher must apply building comprehension, disscuss lesson before reading, make connections or compare their life with characters in the book. Once reader develops a good comprehension, they will be able to read most text and enjoy reading.

EDRG 3344 T&R final copy FAVORITE VACATION!

My favorite vacation!!!


My Favorite vacation was when I was fourten years old and my father took me to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. It was one the most memorable experiences of my life. The trip to Walt Disney was very fun, it was sunny day. I remember every detail, spending a time with my dad, and having fun.
We eat a lot of candies, my father eat more hotdogs than candies. It was the first time my father and I actually did something together. We took many pictures with my favorite characters I love Cinderella. After eating we wento to a circus, it was amazing and fun, the circus show was fantastic. Later we went to the water parks, Dineys Hollywood studios, and the cinderella castle.
Finally the end of my trip was over, we went back home. I told mom what happend in Walt Disney, she was happy that dad and I had fun. I can still remember how excited I was in my vacation, I enjoy every minute of it.

EDRG 3344 T&R WRITING PROCESS

Writing is a process.....Writing is a process......... !!!!!!!!!


The witing process is on what the students think and do as they write. Writing process had five stages.

1. Prewriting- Think, brainstorm, ideas for you story.
2. Drafting - Write you first draft, put all your ideas in a paragraph.
3. Revising- It is time to edit your story, add or delete what is good or bad.
4. Editing- Read over you story and make sure and make sure that there are no missed mistakes.
5. Publishing- You are done! can share you writing in class.


You should remember these five stages to writte a good story.

EDRG 3321 CHAPTER 2

Chaper 2

Culturally Responsive Classrooms

In chapter 2 we learn the importace of our culture, how we can adjust culture in our school, educator must know that culture reflects what we are, chapter 2 explains culture as beliefs, custumsm and lenguage. Culture consist of learned ways of acting, feeling and thinking. How cultures differ? Culture differ in their details from one part of the world to another. Michael Oleksa said: " Likens the system of deep culture to the rules in a game such as American Football." We had to understand every culture to adjust in our schools, so studets can felt comfortable in school. The Cultural Responsive Model are elements of cultural responsabilities that educators must apply. Educator must teach students strength and needs, knowing their backgroud its a first step to help them. "All children deserve a equal access to literacy and to good literature." Every children had the right to had education no matter the races.

EDRG 3344 T&R What are some examples of pre/dur/post?:

Predicting is when you think about whats is going to happend next, involves thinking ahead while you read, anticipating and events that would happend throught out a story. Example will be asking questions about pictures of the book. During we can review the events of the story and write about them. Post will be after reading the story we can had activies such as drawing or painting or wrinting. This strategies helps kids to read and develop strategies for reading comprehension.

EDRG 3344 T&R HOW DO YOU LEARN?

People learn in different ways. I learn best by viewing, for example when I read a book I need to imagine whats is going to happen, I predict whats going to happen next. I love to read books that has a lot of imagines, pictures, maps, graphs or diagrams that makes me more easily to remember things. I love watching videos on class, it makes me have an easier time. I love taking notes and highlight them with different colors and shape the most important clues that I will want to remember. I visualize the things that I'm going to do in a day. The way I learn is perfect for me; but Ialso conbined the listening method, I prefer to read aloud questions makes me understand it clearly what they mean. Some times I use videotape or audio to record classes and listened to review assigments.

My first Blog 3321 M&W

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