WRITING:
WRITING IS A MULTIFACETED TASK THAT involves the use and coordination of many cognitive processes. Due to its complexities, many students find writing challenging. When a child struggles with spelling, his writing is much slower than his thinking. This makes it hard for him to clearly express his knowledge and ideas in written school assignments.
Writing becomes a social activity when the teacher and students brainstorm together, read their work to each other, and talk about each other's writing. When it is the focus of social interaction, writing is supported by oral language and interpersonal relationships. Students write for the audience of their classmates and are eager to hear what others have written. There are many opportunities for students to learn from each other and from the teacher's interactions with their peers.
When students write, they draw upon the sum of their experiences in listening, speaking, and reading.
In order to prepare for the fourth and seventh grade writing STAAR test, your students are expected to be able to write both an expository and a narrative composition. My primary goal is to help students plan, write, and revise with an eye toward the reader. You'll see the difference in smiles as well as scores, from homework to the classroom.
WRITING IS A MULTIFACETED TASK THAT involves the use and coordination of many cognitive processes. Due to its complexities, many students find writing challenging. When a child struggles with spelling, his writing is much slower than his thinking. This makes it hard for him to clearly express his knowledge and ideas in written school assignments.
Writing becomes a social activity when the teacher and students brainstorm together, read their work to each other, and talk about each other's writing. When it is the focus of social interaction, writing is supported by oral language and interpersonal relationships. Students write for the audience of their classmates and are eager to hear what others have written. There are many opportunities for students to learn from each other and from the teacher's interactions with their peers.
When students write, they draw upon the sum of their experiences in listening, speaking, and reading.
In order to prepare for the fourth and seventh grade writing STAAR test, your students are expected to be able to write both an expository and a narrative composition. My primary goal is to help students plan, write, and revise with an eye toward the reader. You'll see the difference in smiles as well as scores, from homework to the classroom.
Reading:
READING IS A CORE SUBJECT that is vital to all students whether they are in kindergarten or high school. Even though students have been advancing their skills as a reader and writer from a young age, the basic of how to approach a passage and annotate for the maximum comprehension are usually missing. In the time provided students should not spend more than 5-6 minutes answering questions regarding the passage, most of the work is done during the comprehensive aspect of reading, and establishing the relationship between the passage and the question.
There are 3 parts to reading that are essential for a student to grasp, to advance in their bright future. The foundation of reading begins from the basic understanding of the passage, most reader miss many questions because the passage is unclear to them. Secondly, the students must be able to interpret the question being asked, and lastly after analyzing the passage and questions the reader should be able to make the connection between the passage and the question. Every question has a right answer, and a teachers job is to hold the hand of the student and lead them to the right answer.
In order to prepare for the READING STAAR test, your students are expected to be able to understand fiction, nonfiction, humanities, and compare and contrast passages.
READING IS A CORE SUBJECT that is vital to all students whether they are in kindergarten or high school. Even though students have been advancing their skills as a reader and writer from a young age, the basic of how to approach a passage and annotate for the maximum comprehension are usually missing. In the time provided students should not spend more than 5-6 minutes answering questions regarding the passage, most of the work is done during the comprehensive aspect of reading, and establishing the relationship between the passage and the question.
There are 3 parts to reading that are essential for a student to grasp, to advance in their bright future. The foundation of reading begins from the basic understanding of the passage, most reader miss many questions because the passage is unclear to them. Secondly, the students must be able to interpret the question being asked, and lastly after analyzing the passage and questions the reader should be able to make the connection between the passage and the question. Every question has a right answer, and a teachers job is to hold the hand of the student and lead them to the right answer.
In order to prepare for the READING STAAR test, your students are expected to be able to understand fiction, nonfiction, humanities, and compare and contrast passages.