Refine______________________________________________
Cognitive mapping, as mentioned in Chapter 8, is something that
I plan to implement this year with my higher readers. I found this link, http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ , that was in Chapter 8, to be most helpful
and I cannot wait to use it in the classroom. I was most
interested in the internet resources that were introduced in Chapter 8, and I
plan to start using them immediately to guide my instruction, especially the
instruction of ESOL students. The RTI
website has a whole section devoted to ELLs: considerations that you should use
with ELL students. The International
Reading Association has a website that I visited, but cannot wait to explore
further! There are lesson plans, books, videos,
and much more available on the site. I
think the most interesting thing that I want to check out on this website,
though is the section on the common core. I am not sure how I will use the information
on this site, because I have not fully explored it yet.
I am also most anxious to use the graphic organizers that
were presented in Chapter 18, as I use graphic organizers frequently and am
constantly looking for new and different ones!
There were also several different surveys for students to fill out. I want to start using a variation of those
daily in reading, to have students do a type of self-assessment on their
participation and involvement in reading class that day. My thought is to have them complete that
survey quickly at the end of reading using the student portal: eclass.
There all the results would be scored for me to look at daily. Also their parents could look at them.
As a side note, I would like to add that I got a new NEP in
my class this week, and I have been able to implement many of the strategies
that I have learned in this class with her.
I really feel that, although she has only been in my class for three
days, I have made more of an impact with her already that I have with NEPs in
previous years.
