Literacy

Did you know that you can "read" film? This artifact portrays my understanding of how to read film using the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" and its film adaptation. Even though the original book is a short picture book, the filmmaker was able to make a full-length film, and this essay explores my understanding of how, in "reading" a film, one can understand the filmmaker's purpose and interpretation of the book.

In this artifact, I explore my family history and how the Chinese language has evolved in my own family throughout the years due to historical events and migration. While working on this artifact, I could not help but wonder about my students (and future students) and their language heritage and how I, as a teacher, can support them in appreciating their language heritage as well as learn English.

For a Literacy Learner Project, I focused on helping a struggling reader during the summer. To do so, I had to conduct a pre-assessment as well as deepen my understanding of this reader (whom we will call Sarah), such as understanding her emotional climate and home background in literacy. Then, I created tailored lesson plans to support Sarah based on best literacy practices. As such, this artifact demonstrates my ability to create a differentiated lesson plan for a specific need as well as my understanding of how a learner's background and emotional climate can affect their learning.