Monday, October 3, 2016

California’s Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy

This assignment was created with the intent to use it in our classrooms. Teachers can use this as a resource. The purpose is to take the steps necessary to help students read, comprehend and respond to texts. We not only want the students to read the text, we also want them to think about what they are reading and gather a response to what they have read. There are certain steps that instructors must take in order to get them to do this correctly and with ease. Teachers should guide them through certain steps at the beginning of class.
The template is great because it has everything there to help an instructor teach the students how to actually get into a text. For example, even before a text is open, there are certain pre-reading steps that should be taken. The student should survey the text and its purpose. They should gather up all that they know about the text before they even open it. Teachers should hold activities to help the students get ready for the text ahead. Maybe talking about the purpose of the text as a whole class, then holding an open discussion about what everyone already knows about the text.

The template did an awesome job of outlining what a student should go through while reading any text. As an instructor, we need to take the necessary steps and activities to help our students feel as comfortable as possible with a text. It is important to keep the structure. There are steps to actually understanding what we read, and we need to bring these steps to the forefront. The instructor needs to be there when students have questions about the text, they will always have questions and that is a good thing. Reading the text is not all that matters, we need the students to accumulate a logical response to the text.

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