Internship Responce Week 5

What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?

This week the teacher reviewed various aspects of letterland and read books about Thanksgiving to the students.

What have you taught in your internship?

I was able to review an emotions lesson with the kids, and I read a Dr. Seuss book to the kids.

Comment on any interesting things that you have noticed about your school, the teachers, the students, or the curriculum.

One interesting aspect that I noticed about lunch time is that they have it arranged so that students came and left on a rather leisurely schedule.

Internship Responce Week 4

What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?

This week the teacher read a story and then had students illustrate a picture to display what they thought would come next in the story.

What have you taught in your internship?

I have been reading to the children and I was able to do my text talk lesson with Stellaluna.

Comment on any interesting things that you have noticed about your school, the teachers, the students, or the curriculum.

I thought it was interesting that various groups would bring the teachers in breakfast.

Internship Responce 3

What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?

This week the teacher covered more of the common letter patterns in Letterland, and worked with individual students in developing a story about a short story that she read to them.

What have you taught in your internship?

I have been reading and assisting my teacher with anything that she needs me to help her with.

Comment on any interesting things that you have noticed about your school, the teachers, the students, or the curriculum.

I think it is interesting that each classroom has a place to display something that the students have been working on, the week previous.

Internship Responce 2

What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?

Mrs. Franzen started out the day with interventions, she gets particular students and works on skills that will improve their spelling and reading. In the low group she worked on onset and rime with the students. In the medium group she worked with fluency, and comprehension, and in the high group she was working on common letter patterns.

What have you taught in your internship?

This week I helped students read through the questions that they had on their math homework and helped them review the readings that they had each day. I also asked questions about what they read before they took an AR test.

Comment on any interesting things that you have noticed about your school, the teachers, the students, or the curriculum.

I think that the curriculum, in my teachers class, which is focused mainly on math and literacy covers all of the material that the students need to know without specifically addressing history or science, the teacher covers this material in the underling curriculum.

Post any questions that you have about teaching/learning.

When should I take over/or assist in the teaching of a concept or lesson?

Internship Responce 1

What have you seen in language arts/reading instruction?

Mrs. Franzen uses a variety of methods to keep her students active in reading and instructing them in their abilities. She improves their individual skills by seeing where each student is placed, according to reading ability and ocmprehension. Mrs. Franzen has an assigned part of the day where students read their books three times, and then she asks them comprehension questions about them, if they know her answers then she sends them to take an AR test. Weekly she gives them spelling tests which they study through the week, and letterland is used once a day to build students letter knowledge and phoneme awareness. Mrs. Franzen also places the students into intervention groups so that she can address individual problems with the students.

What have you taught in your internship?

I have taught rhyming skills, and tried to improve students comprehension skills by reading to students and using the text talk method of stopping at particular points and asking questions about the text. I also taught the students that sometimes people say the wrong word because they never heard the correct way of saying it, the first graders love to listen when I read, and I love reading to them so I try to get them in small groups and read to them whenever an opportunity presents itself.