Friday, November 4, 2011
Literature Exploration
There are so many meaningful ways to connect to a text other than the traditional format of a book report. Going through a novel as a class has been extremely helpful - I did this as a middle school student, but it is much more beneficial as a future educator to talk through texts with other future educators than to simply go off of my memories. It has been wonderful to collaborate ideas about how to make this text meaningful to students; I have spent alot of time talking with Hayli and Michelle about ideas for our upcoming lesson plan. Teaching a text and instilling a love of reading and writing is much more than teaching context ans making sure students understand the summary - when you give them a chance to be creative with the text they are reading, they can claim it as their own and turn it into something very meaningful specifically to them. I hope to foster this type of learning in my future classrooms!
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I agree that teaching a love for writing is probably the best and most useful thing that you can teach a student. I think that once students see that different texts can relate to them and other texts they read, they really get excited about reading and making those connections.
ReplyDeleteI think that when you approach the text in different ways such as using process drama you create a deeper connection with the book and allow kids to express what was important to them in the story. I can see how the process would also be interesting for the teacher just by being able to see the different ways in which students connected to the text.
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