Miss Roetemeyer's Education Journey

This week in one of my classes we are discussing the reading process. We have learned that the key features of the reading process are pre-reading, reading, responding to reading, exploring, and applying. For the sake of this blog, I will be discussing the "applying" feature of the reading process.  As a future teacher, I personally feel the applying section would be my favorite part of the reading process. I say this because the applying part is when the students take what they learn and apply it to new things. During the applying section of the reading process, teachers will really see which students understand what they learned and which students still need some extra guidance. This is when the teacher can see what they are doing is actually working. I think this is the best feeling! When in the applying section there are so many options the teacher can choose from to show what the students have learned. For example, the students may create some sort of project, create a p...

I have discussed my poetry unit in my previous blogs. However, I will give a quick explanation again. In my Teaching Language Arts class, we are to create a unit. I chose to do my unit over poetry for the 3rd-grade level. In our units, we need to have a book list that we plan on using to help our students understand the content in our unit. Here is my book list for the poetry unit:

In my college class, we are learning about different types of learning strategies we can use in our future classrooms. One of the strategies we have recently learned about is called a Sketch to Stretch. The Sketch to Stretch is a strategy to help the students break down concepts in the classroom by using different methods of learning, such as pictures and note-taking. This strategy can be used in several different ways.  I have created a sketch to stretch to show you have this method of learning can be used. In my example, I broke down who the character is, character traits, and the morale of the story. I used the picture book "Rainbow Fish". If you are unaware of this children's book, here is a video of it being read aloud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cmddZh6t8 . In my Sketch to Stretch, you can see how I broke the concepts down into each row. I wrote a little note about it and drew a picture to represent the concept. This week in my class, a couple more students pr...