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Standard 2: Literacy and Reading
Candidates promote reading for learning, personal growth, and enjoyment. Candidates are aware of major trends in children's and young adult literature and select reading materials in multiple formats to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning. Candidates use a variety of strategies to reinforce classroom reading instruction to address the diverse needs and interests of all readers.
Elements
2.1 Literature
Candidates are familiar with a wide range of children’s, young adult, and professional literature in multiple formats and languages to support reading for information, reading for pleasure, and reading for lifelong learning.
2.2 Reading promotion
Candidates use a variety of strategies to promote leisure reading and model personal enjoyment of reading in order to promote habits of creative expression and lifelong reading.
2.3 Respect for diversity
Candidates demonstrate the ability to develop a collection of reading and information materials in print and digital formats that support the diverse developmental, cultural, social, and linguistic needs of P-12 students and their communities.
2.4 Literacy strategies
Candidates collaborate with classroom teachers to reinforce a wide variety of reading instructional strategies to ensure P-12 students are able to create meaning from text.
Artifact #1 Motivating Students to be Lifelong Readers (click the link below)
I selected this project from TE866 because it showcases my passion for helping students to become lifelong readers. When students come in to find a book and they tell me they don't care what it is. I know they just need to show the teacher that they checked out a book. I try and have conversations with each of them to find something they find interesting and let them know that I can find anything anywhere for them as long as I know what they find interesting. Often times just the fact that I am willing to search for them helps their buy in to try reading. Of course, not every situation creates a lifelong reader but I hope to be making a difference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/145-ATovjFq3c5DgUxhLbWrfOIO5gdNIS/view?usp=sharing
Artifact #2 Motivating the 21st Century Learner
Students today have more options in reading with technology than in years past. Sometimes those students choose to use of their reading tsime on Social Media. This means we must build relationships and build a bridge. Often students feel as though teachers are completely opposed to social media, but I believe we must embrace it. When students transition from elementary to high school their reading habits diminish, or as I like to think change. While they are on social media in some cases they are still reading . Albeit much less, but if we embrace social media and teach them to use it correctly we build a bridge of communication and can make them feel like we are meeting them halfway. Lifelong reading of the future may be a lot more digital and a lot less physical book. Compromise is important, and we can find ways of including different types of reading into every activity or lesson.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uHmgfl24HH8CbqaihHCCuQIE8bYQ3PJozPsFwAwyyHU/edit?usp=sharing
MotivationProject.TE866.Stefka.pdfArtifact #3 From my personal experience. This is what I planned and carried out last year for Read Across America Day at Sargent Elementary. We have moved away from celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday and now we celebrate diversity. This year's theme was shoes. We read stories about shoes to show that we are all different, and we accept everyone for who they are. Then they got to decorate a shoe of their own choice. We placed the shoes along a long hallway from the library to the lunchroom.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18EBF0BIbEWXaTdxUbvJGQD2DnoWSRx4npv-nXwmaF5Q/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KU5SydLWbXj6eaAiLLK0hEbXUS5oNOqEuMTAWHgLr-U/edit?usp=sharing
Read Across America
Sargent Elementary will celebrate Read Across America next Friday, March 6th. Read Across America has moved away from celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday to celebrating Diversity. We are excited to spend Friday afternoon celebrating Diversity. We will be reading two different stories about Shoes and doing group activities with shoes. Please join the FUN by having your student(s) wear diverse shoes (Mismatching shoes).
The best way to celebrate at home is to spend a few extra minutes everyday reading with your child. Thank you for working to improve your students’ reading!
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