Waching daily Aug 1 2017

Here are the top ten ways to use literacy inside of the classroom.

Number one.

In literacy I teach a course called robotics automative systems.

It's in the manufacturing pathway.

I have my students create a robot.

The first thing I do is have the students look up all the parts and that have to understand

which part function.

How does it work?

My students have to be literate in coding cause eventually once they create the robot

they are actually going to program it.

In order to program it you need to understand the syntax and the language of the program

to make it work.

Number two.

I use kinesthetics in the classroom.

I have found that teaching ESOL and SPED students that using songs with their body movements

allows them to master a skill with confidence.

They are actively engaged and using that repetition to understand a concept they are able to learn

it and grasp it with confidence.

It really comes alive for them and they're able to tap into their own learning style

which makes it unqiue for them.

Number three.

Well I use literacy in my classroom in a variety of ways.

One particular activity that I use is the read and cake walk activity.

This activity allows me to place article about the content that we're studying around the

room and as music plays students circulate those articles.

Once the music stops students read the article that is in front of them.

They begin to annotate that article, underline any vocabulary they are not familiar with

or may be familiar with, in addition to underlining any key phrases, highlighting anything that

sparks their interest, writing down those interesting facts.

When we're done we actually come back as a whole group and discuss our articles together

and learn from one another.

Number four.

Being a speech language pathologist I feel that everything I do is supporting literacy.

I'm either helping a student with how they articulate language or we're working on the

structure of language, or comprehension itself and all of those things directly support literacy.

I love incorporating literature whenever I can into their lessons because I want them

to understand that if we are working on syntax or the structure of language the ultimate

goal is to help them with reading.

Number five.

We do a what I call 100 hour film festival.

It's kind of a growth off of this 48 hour film festival that cities do.

Atlanta does it.

What literacy means in my classroom right or what are two big things that I want to

push through my instruction.

I want to make certain that students come out of it knowing that reading doesn't mean

large works.

And the second thing is understanding and appreciate language because once you do it's

going to change the way you interact and engage in discourse for the rest of your life.

Number six.

I use literacy in the classroom by using fun, reading writing, and real world activities

to peak students' interest.

What that does is it creates an atmosphere of excitement for the students.

You can see that they get an appetite for literacy and it's something that can be done

at all levels of learners.

Number seven.

We use literacy in the classroom in our vocabulary talks.

We make sure that we show a picture with the vocabulary, we do hand motions with vocabulary,

we use it as our special word all day long when we're in the hallway, when we're on the

playground and we just celebrate any time we use that vocabulary word.

Some of my students even get excited if they use two vocabulary words in a sentence.

They get so excited.

Number eight.

Literacy does play a big role in every lesson I teach because if the students are just going

through the motions they are not really connecting and making meaning out of what they are learning.

So if they have to write about it or discuss it or just talk with their neighbor about

what they're learning it kind of connection more personal.

Then I feel like they grow more as a learner.

Nine.

In reading we have the reader's workshop that we do with the children.

In that we meet on the floor for a mini lesson and I have one teaching point that I try to

get through to the children that day.

I do lots of modeling for the children.

They have to be able to see a lot of this to enable them to do it.

So we have the reader's workshop everyday.

We do shared reading where I read a book through one time where they listen and then the second

time we go through and we talk.

Number ten.

To me it means more than just being able to read it means being able to understand.

And so one of the things I started doing a couple of years ago was to not focus on just

the vocabulary or terminology for the unit that we were covering being a specific definition.

I knew that the kids needed to understand it.

To be able to recognize it.

To be able to relate it.

To be able to identify it.

I don't want them to just, like I said, memorize.

I want them to understand.

That, to me, is true literacy.