Reflection #1
During the first week of Reading091, I learned which learning style I learned best which was visual By learning what kind of learning style I am I can take this and use it to advantage and hopefully it will help me better my grades, knowing that I learn best by using pictures and diagrams. This week the only disappointment I came across this week was running my sentences over together and not understanding what I just read. What I would like to do during the period with my students is, teach them how to better read and learn new reading skills as well as myself learn something too. The reading skills I taught this week was identifying the main idea, topic of the story, and the importance of the story. I choose the book “When Marian Sang”, by Pam Muñoz Ryan. “When Marian sang” is a bout a young girl named Marian who enjoys singing in church choirs and concerts. The color of her skin is a big obstacle in the story, although her voice is beautiful, people will not let her sing in their place of business. Marian manages to sing at the Metropolitan Opera where she always dreamt of singing. The Vocabulary words I choose to use for this book were, Prejudice, Momentous, Segregated, Distinct, and lastly Application.
Reflection #2
The reading rules that we used with our mentees were applying word meaning strategies to maximize comprehension. We used this rule to teach the students’ new vocabulary words. Another reading rule that we all used were explaining topic, main idea, and supporting details. Last week, some of us taught our mentees how to make inferences based on pictures from their picture books. Some of the DC students were able to recognize and analyze different language devices. Since we had a short amount of time with each student, we applied skimming and scanning to our reading lessons. To make sure that our mentees were paying attention to the book we asked them questions and had them summarize what while we were reading. The last reading competency we used was the graphic organizer as our reading plan to teach our students. During our discussion, we were able to explain each competency to each other. We applied topic, main idea, and supporting detail strategy to a book that one person had with them. Everyone should have the word of the day so we didn’t really go over that much. The words that the member of our group are:
Corina
Bravo-(noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of a great performance
Clumsy-(adj) lacking grace in movement or posture
Tepee-(noun) A native American tent
Bulging-(adj) curving outward
Canvas-(noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
Compost-(noun) A mixture of decaying, organic matter, as from leaves and manure, used to improve soil structure and provide nutrients
Harvest- (verb) To gather a crop
Convent- (noun) A community, especially of nuns, bound by vows to a religious life under a superior
Bounty- (noun) Generosity in giving to others.
Dulce
Slump: To fall or sink heavily; collapse
Lurch: An Act or instance of swaying abruptly.
Balancing: equal distribution
Dexterous: skillful
Deft: clever
Drought: Lack of water
Listen: to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; giving ear.
Snatched: to make a sudden effort to seize something hard, grab.
Desperately: reckless or dangerous.
Argue: to present reason against a thing: disagree.
Selina
Broke: Having completely run out of money
Dare: courage to do something
Show: a spectacle or display of something
Put: Move to or place in a particular position
Place: A particular position or point in a space
Glanced: take a brief or hurried look
Trackless: not leaving a trace
Comfortable: Providing physical ease and relaxation
Lost: unable to find ones way
Anna
Hovers- to hang fluttering or suspended in the air
Mourning- outward symbols of sorrow
Sacred- devoted or dedicated to a religious purpose
Sorrow- distress cause by a loss
Tradition- handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs
Influences: an effect of one person or thing to another
Custom: a usual practice
Accusation: a charge of wrong doing
Grudge: a long term anger towards someone
Encourage: to inspire or stimulate
And then we finished our reflection.
Corina
Bravo-(noun) a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of a great performance
Clumsy-(adj) lacking grace in movement or posture
Tepee-(noun) A native American tent
Bulging-(adj) curving outward
Canvas-(noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
Compost-(noun) A mixture of decaying, organic matter, as from leaves and manure, used to improve soil structure and provide nutrients
Harvest- (verb) To gather a crop
Convent- (noun) A community, especially of nuns, bound by vows to a religious life under a superior
Bounty- (noun) Generosity in giving to others.
Dulce
Slump: To fall or sink heavily; collapse
Lurch: An Act or instance of swaying abruptly.
Balancing: equal distribution
Dexterous: skillful
Deft: clever
Drought: Lack of water
Listen: to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; giving ear.
Snatched: to make a sudden effort to seize something hard, grab.
Desperately: reckless or dangerous.
Argue: to present reason against a thing: disagree.
Selina
Broke: Having completely run out of money
Dare: courage to do something
Show: a spectacle or display of something
Put: Move to or place in a particular position
Place: A particular position or point in a space
Glanced: take a brief or hurried look
Trackless: not leaving a trace
Comfortable: Providing physical ease and relaxation
Lost: unable to find ones way
Anna
Hovers- to hang fluttering or suspended in the air
Mourning- outward symbols of sorrow
Sacred- devoted or dedicated to a religious purpose
Sorrow- distress cause by a loss
Tradition- handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs
Influences: an effect of one person or thing to another
Custom: a usual practice
Accusation: a charge of wrong doing
Grudge: a long term anger towards someone
Encourage: to inspire or stimulate
And then we finished our reflection.
Reflection #3
Use of inference according to our text was to read between the lines to better grasp what was read. Inference was hidden messages so that one can get an idea of what they looked at. The use of context clues to understand the message is important because it helps the personal fully understand what the writer is trying to portray in the text.