You will practice various skills as well as watch various middle grade educators virtually teach reading and writing independently. After each activity or observation, you will need to reflect on what you observed on the log as it relates to this course.
1: Reading Fluency
View the videos about Effective Practices to build students’ reading fluency. Write a summary including your reflections about the videos and how you can implement these strategies to improve struggling readers fluency.
https://readingrecovery.org/professional-learning/effective-literacy-practices-video-library/
2: Complete the Grammar Practice page and record your score.
https://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/grammar/quizzes/GrammarSelfTest.htm
3: Strategies to Becoming Better Writers
https://www.adlit.org/topics/writing/teaching-writing-diverse-student-populations#spelling-and-handwriting-strategies
Writing is a complex operation requiring knowledge of text structure, syntax, vocabulary, and topic, and sensitivity to audience needs; so it is not surprising that many teens find writing challenging. It is necessary to provide research-based recommendations, activities, and materials to effectively teach writing to the wide range of students we teach.
Read the section: “Teaching Composing Strategies.” Identify at least 2 writing strategies that would assist you in helping your students to their writing skills. Explain how you would these strategies to reinforce the importance of writing and revision and then implement these strategies in your classroom.
4: Quick Tips about Writing Essays and Research Papers
View the video about Quick Tips about Writing Essays and Research Papers. Write a summary including your reflections about how you can implement these strategies to improve your essays and research papers.
5: Revision and Editing
View the video about Revision and Editing. Write a summary including your reflections about how you can implement the strategies to improve your edit and revise your essays and research papers.
6: Commonly Confused Words: Complete the Grammar Practice Quiz and record your score.
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commonly_confused_words.asp
7: Punctuation, Capitalization, and Writing Numbers Practice: Complete the Grammar Practice Quiz and record your score.
https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/punctuation_mastery.asp
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