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http://www.weareteachers.com/teaching-ideas/grant/teaching-idea?app=11837&grantId=51

While reading Calkins' article I was kind of skeptical when I saw that it was about post-it use when reading, but as I read on I saw just how much post-its can do for your reading. How it can bring you back to parts and show your train of thoughts and predictions, and how cool they really are to use when reading. Whenever I was told to use post-its in school it was only to mark important parts and quotes, not really much about my thinking, but finding what I was "supposed to" in the book. This article showed me a totally different concept and application of post-its so that I feel I would use them in my own classroom in the future. It was also to cool to see how students could take a single post-it and just expand on it into longer journal entries. It just shows how one idea can branch out and develop so many more new thoughts and insights.

One of my favorite parts was when Calkins' quotes Wells on page 372 saying, "We write-we put our thinking onto the page-so we can hold onto our fleeting thoughts" (Wells, 1999). It is so true how our thoughts can be easily accessed and processed when they are written. I love how these thoughts can start from something as simple as a post-it and expand to an entire essay. I found a lesson plan on weareteachers.com that showed an introduction of using post-its as a way to "talk back" to the book, which I thought was an interesting way to put it. It also shows how many different subjects you can use post-its for and how the objective is to help improve comprehension. It's just one look at the use of post-its, but I thought that it was a good start that could expand into the many facets that Calkins gets into.

[lledblocksummer2012-blog]

Pop Culture Integration

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/pop-culture-inspire-elementary-students

The Alvermann reading talks about popular culture integration into the classroom and how "This recognition of popular culture as everyday culture-and like the media, constantly changing-suggests that audiences are indeed capable of simultaneously incorporating both pleasures and critiques in their use of it" (147). Alvermann gave four approaches to using pop culture in the classroom,popular culture as being detrimental to children's development, popular culture as teaching critical analysis, popular culture as relative, and popular culture as self-reflective. These approaches are very different, but I feel that the last three are the most useful approaches and they can all be used in the classroom depending on what the popular culture is. I feel that not allowing popular culture in the classroom says that we do not care or take interes in what they care about and take interest in. These popular culture things can actually help to enhance and motivate their learning, and be used as tools to help build new knowledge and understanding.

The Five Ideas for Using Pop Culture to Inspire Elementary Students, is just one example of how teachers can integrate pop culture into the classroom. The five ideas could be used in most classrooms and D-D-N (description, dialogue, and narration) can expand to different students tastes in pop culture books. The ideas just shows that there are so many possibilities we can come up with if we include our students interests and how they can learn from and enjoy them. I like how these ideas show the inspiration and examples, as well as what and how the students can learn from them. This makes me extremely hopeful that I will be able to create new ideas to help inspire my students and motivate their learning as well as have them enjoy that learning.

[lledblocksummer2012-blog]

Harvey

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/skill-builder/problem-solving/48546.html

In Chapter 4 Harvey and Goudvis talk about the concept of thinking aloud which is something I do all the time, but had never thought of as being used in the classroom as a technique of explicit instruction. After reading I now understand how "think-alouds are central to comprehension instruction" (46), because think-alouds require students to incorporate their many different thoughts, reactions, feelings, questions, and more, which leads to a more cohesive understanding. Think-alouds also create so many connections to the students, their lives, and their background knowledge. I had never realized how thinking aloud can be such a great tactic is sorting out your questions, confusions, and information so that a greater understanding can come from it. I also realize that some teachers I had classes with used to hush students who were thinking aloud, and how that hindered those kids thought processes. I think that think-alouds are really cool and that they can be extremely useful to students, especially if we as teachers help and model for them efficient ways of doing so and applying those thoughts. 

I liked the idea of think-alouds so much that I wanted to see more information on them, which is how I came across the Think Aloud Strategy from TeacherVision. I really like this strategy because it incorporates more than just reading, but also says that the children will "learn to think as authors, mathematicians, anthropologists, economists, historians, scientists, and artists." I find that strategies are the most useful when they can be applied to different subjects, students find more value in these strategies, and it allows for them to practice and perfect these processes easier. It also gives examples of how you can use it in various subjects which is extremely helpful, as well as gives you an assessment tool. I feel that these two resources combined will be extremely useful to me in the future and that I will be able to use think-alouds in my own classroom to help expand my students thinking and comprehension.

[lledblocksummer2012-blog]

Assisted Reading Strategies

http://emu1967.tripod.com/assisread.htm

In Rasinski's article he says how "We define assisted reading as an oral reading of a text while simultaneously listening to a fluent rendering of the same text by a reading partner, by a group reading chorally, or from a recording" (514). I find assisted reading to be extremely important and helpful during the process of reading development. Rasinski says that the most popular version of assisted reading is paired reading, and how in paired reading the less fluent and more fluent readers are both benefitting from the process. Though I think paired reading is popular I feel like when I was in school and in school today, the most popular version of assisted reading is read aloud. Read aloud is a very important component of reading in the classroom because the teacher can make sure that the entire class understands and is engaged in the reading by asking questions and having other activities after the reading. I like the website I posted because it gives you many different options for assisted reading strategies which allows you to have more variety in your classroom, and more ideas then just read aloud or paired reading.

[lledblocksummer2012-blog]

After reading the Adomat reading I thought a lot about this video I had seen that talked about Tableau and how students read and interpret a text and create a live image of what they read. This process helps them have a better understanding of the text while they are having fun working together to make the text come alive.