Reading/Class Responses

Reading Response to:

Morphology article:

WOW! imagine teaching the roots to children. Now that make sense. If only that actually happened in the classroom. It would help students so much! I hope that I can implement this in my classroom! I think it is very important for students to know how things are created and why. This totally applies to words. When we went over the vocab stuff in class I was thinking “Man if only I had been taught more vocab, I would have done so much better on the SATs!” It is so true! Something kids will us and need as they get older.

Reading Response to:

Shared Readings: Modeling Comprehension, Vocabulary, Text Structures, and Text Features for Older Readers

This article was very informative. It had great ideas that would really help students. By doing shared readings the students are given great ways to comprehend story’s. It is very important to model to your students what you expect them to do becasue many students will not read for comprehension, vocab, and other things. They just read. It is important to show them how to read for these things so that they will remember what they read. All of the ideas listed in the article seem to be natural and obvious, but in some ways they are not because we all learn differently. This is something I can’t wait to use in my class.

Integrating Instructional-Level Social Studies Trade Books for Struggling Readers in Upper Elementary Grades

This is a wonderful article! I love the great ideas that it gives for teachers to be able to teach all students of many different reading levels. In my ideal classroom, I would love to have many reading groups and be able to teach each one. I do not think that it is fair to lump everyone together and make them read one book. It will be very important for me as a teacher to figure out what each students needs to succeed. I love that the article describes how to make social studies and reading a big focus together. I want to make sure to incorporate social studies into my classroom because that is my favorite subject and it is a very important subject. Math and reading are not the only subjects I will teach. I love that the article gives the teacher great ideas to incorporate everything.

Class Assignment:

HOW MANY OF ME ARE THERE?!!?

Amanda Nicole Johnson Scoggin

Well as everyone knows I got married over the summer so….

I researched both of my names! This was so much fun because my old last name, now new middle name, is very popular! Johnson is the 2nd most popular last name. WOW! Amanda is the 80th most popular 1st name!  There are 620,786 people in the U.S. that have the first name Amanda and 2,115,724 people who have the last name Johnson.

My new last name, Scoggin,  is not so popular. Only 2,085 people have it and  only 4 people in the whole United States are named Amanda Scoggin! That is so cool! I thought that was so neat that I researched Travis Scoggin, my husband, and I found that there are only 2 Travis Scoggin’s in the U.S. How crazy!

Just a fun side note, Amanda Means “Worthy of love.” I love that. Nicole means Victory of the People. Not really sure how that fits in with my personality but still very neat.

There are no famous people with the last name Scoggin, but there are a bunch with the last name Johnson. Here are a few:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jimmie Johnson

Magic Johnson

I love the story about how I was named. My parents had looked for many names like Jessica, Madeline and many more. Well, my mom was really sick while she was pregnant. She was on bed rest for about 6 or 7 months so she had plently of time to look at names. My parents did not know if I was a boy or girl so they had narrowed the names down to Madeline and Jacob Douglas. The day came for me to be born and my mom was still very sick so she did not see me until the day after I was born. My dad decided to name me Amanda Nicole, a name not really on the list but he loved it.  So my dad picked out my name and I love it.

Response to Ch 1 & 2:

• What are your overall impressions of the book?
• What is the purpose of a Writer’s Notebook?
• What might be your goals as a teacher of writing?
• Launching the Notebook?
• Organization of the Notebook?

1. The book is very easy to read! I love that it is from an actual teacher with real like experiences. She gives great ideas and examples that actually work with real life. This is a book that I can use in a classroom. I can use the ideas and topics that the author gives in my classroom.

2.  The purpose for the writer’s notebook is to allow kids to explore with writing. They are able to write about different topics that they come up with or that the teacher may give the student. They are able to write and explore with words that they have not used before, this allows them to expand their vocabulary.

3. My goals would include having the students write in their notebooks every day. I would have them write about topics I give them and also self selected topics because I think that this concept is also important. They need to be able to explore ideas on their own. I also would not read each one. They would be responsible for showing me which pages I could read. It is important for the students to have some privacy, but I also need to know that they are doing their writing.

4. Launching the notebook is important because they need to be engaged and want to write. It must be conveyed in a fun way so that the students are interested. It is so fun to get the kids interested without literally telling them what they are going to do.

5. I liked the way she described organizing the notebook. I think I would allow them to choose, but help them to keep it organized. Maybe separate it into sections like poetry, stories, random thoughts, etc. I think that would be fun, but some students may not like to be that organized and I am fine with that. It is there notebook, not mine.

Side note: Sorry this was not posted before class. I could not find the spot that the questions were on before class. I was so sucked into my About Me page and got lost in it. I now know where to look to post responses.