Week 6: Reading Connections Oct. 17, 2014
This week we were assigned to take notes on the Engel’s reading pg. (205-212). What we observed were the following key points.
The more a child grows their ability to describe an experience grows. This relates to the Meier reading, which says drawing is important in children’s understating and learning writing. The more student grows their ability to write expands exponentially if they include drawings or pictures to help them describe an experience in writing. For the students who finish faster we have them draw what they wrote in stick figures.
Children are rarely listened to we often neglect them by correcting them or not expecting a meaning in their stories. Interactive reading and writing is a way to help avoid this, it also has helped us get to know our students a better, and created a close bond between us (msu students & students).
Different aspects of storytelling vary with the cultural values, and habits of the child’s community. Some communities stress there to be a message in every good story so the child raised in that community is likely to be able to pinpoint the theme of a story or tell a similar story. This week when I was with the students I noticed that some students tell stories in first person easily while others would rather tell a story in third person. No matter the situation whether from what type of community they are from some of them still struggled. So we would help them facilitate I would help the students struggling with the story by drawing and helping them plan out their story.
Opening Activity: “Zip, Zap, Zop” You Zip someone they Zap someone else not the Zip, then the person who was Zapped Zops someone else and goes on really fast until someone messes up.
Closing Activity: “Down by the bank of the hanky panky”, the students seem to enjoy playing this game and it will be set as a motivator to get them to write faster. http://youtu.be/3aas7bwcjms
How do we respond appropriately when listening to a student's story?