STANDARD 6: READING, WRITING, AND ORAL COMMUNICATION

Standard 6 - Reading, Writing, and Oral Communication – The competent teacher has foundational knowledge of reading, writing, and oral communication within the content area and recognizes and addresses student reading, writing, and oral communication needs to facilitate the acquisition of content knowledge.

This artifact demonstrates Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 6- Reading, writing, and oral communication

Lexia Core supports educators in providing differentiated literacy instruction for students of all abilities. Lexia is a fun program that helps students to practice their phonics and other reading skills. Students progress through levels of increasing complexity. Students get certificates when they accomplish all the levels. Students can use Lexia at home also to practice and the teacher can monitor how many minutes they worked and the levels they reached. Reading A-Z is another website that we use with our ELL students to determine their reading levels and the books that are in their levels. Reading A_Z had fiction and non-fiction books on different topics and stories. Students get to pick the book that they like to read at their reading level. Reading A-Z offers other activities that relate to the books. For example, reading comprehension questions, phonics worksheets, vocabulary worksheets, and many other visuals for students to use. Teachers can print books from the Reading A_Z website to use in a guided reading small group setting. Students can take the books home to practice reading them with someone at home. This applies to the performance indicators of this standard as teachers select, and use a wide range of printed, visual, or auditory materials, and online resources appropriate to the content areas and the reading needs and levels of each student (including ELLs ).

This artifact demonstrates Illinois Professional Teaching Standard 6- Reading, writing, and oral communication

This is a lesson for Kindergarten that I taught about action verbs. I did many activities to teach this lesson. I introduced the objective of the lesson, then we sang a song about action verbs using the verbs in the pocket chart. Students took turns choosing verbs and we sang the verb altogether as a whole group. This is an oral component. Then we read the book Gingerbread man and we mentioned all the action verbs in the story. so I included the reading component in the lesson. last, we did a writing activity as students got to choose the writing prompt, "My gingerbread boy/ girl likes to..." by completing the sentence using an action verb from the pocket chart using the visuals with the cards. So I included the writing component in the lesson as well. Students got exposed to many different activities and different ways of communication to increase content learning. This applies to the standard 6 reading, writing, and oral communication as the teacher recognizes the relationships among reading, writing, and oral communication and understands how to integrate these components to increase content learning.

In this lesson, students were able to practice learning action verbs using many different components of reading, writing, singing, and writing. It is really important to integrate many activities in learning to meet all the students' needs.