Literacy Post 3
Week 4
Tompkins Chapter 1
Big Takeaway: Effective teachers are the key to ensuring that students learn to read and write successfully, and the way to put that into practice is to knowledgable about how students learn to read and write, how to teach literacy, and how to respond to the needs of struggling students and ELLs.
Nugget: I really like how the authors emphasized the importance of making a community of learning throughout the chapter, and that a truly effective literacy teacher tries to cultivate that learning for each of their students. I think it’s a big part of teaching that we tend to forget about. It’s easy to get super stuck in the routines and content of teaching and not the environment you’re putting out to the students.
After you read, document your initial response to what you’ve read. Consider how the ideas you read about made you feel and
what they made you think about.
I am not going to lie, I feel a little overwhelmed after reading this chapter. I knew from last semester there is a lot that goes into teaching literacy, however I think I had forgotten the full extent it goes to. However, I did agree with what a lot of the text said. It’s important that we give our students quality education rather than just piling everything on top of them at once. I like how the chapter connected theories that we had learned in educational psychology into it in the beginning. It was cool to learn more about how I can use those approaches in practice in the classroom. Overall, this chapter did make me feel overwhelmed, but it got me thinking about education in general and the system we have set up in America. It’s truly a broken system in a lot of ways, but there are people out there who are truly going out of their way to try and make it better, and I think that that’s what this chapter is getting at. To have effective literacy teachers, we need people who are willing to stand up for it and to give students the quality education they deserve. This really helped me read the chapter and get all my thoughts out to truly understand what the authors were getting at.
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Readerly Exploration 3 semester 2
Jan 30- Tompkins chapter 1
Take Aways:
Tompkins 1- This chapter explains the steps to take in order to become an effective literacy teacher that can respond to all students needs including ELL students, those struggling, and those who exceed expectations.
Nuggets:
Tompkins 1- Teachers must provide instruction that meets the needs of students rather than just teaching what they are handed at the pace they are suggested to teach at.
Readerly Exploration: Take yourself on a field trip to a place off campus that connects with the big ideas of your assigned reading(s).
For this week’s readerly exploration I decided to take myself on a field trip off campus that connects with a big idea from this week’s reading. When thinking about where connects to effective literacy for me I think of work. Working at a child care center I am surrounded by teachers that have the job of introducing literacy to all age levels. While in the infant room I was sitting on the floor with a child while they looked at the fish and “talked”. I realized that this is part of literacy and the child is beginning to connect the world around with sounds or words. While she can’t read yet or talk she is beginning the process of all of these ideas. When becoming an effective literacy teacher I think it is important to realize when literacy begins. All children move at different paces but no matter what we as teachers have the responsibility to teach them all at a pace that allows them to succeed. We also must let children explore ideas that are interesting to them.
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The Society OC Masterlist (wip)
Kaya Zaizen
Full Name: Kaya Zaizen
Face Claim: Lyrica Okano
Fic Title: It Takes A Village
Love Interest(s): Elle Tompkins, Harry Bingham
Connections: Abe Zaizen (father), Miriam Bergman (step-mother), Julia Bergman (step-sister), Alexis Bergman (step-sister), Helena Wu (friend)
Relevant Survivalist Skillset: favorite book is Invitation to the Game/genre savvy; low bullshit tolerance; 4 years of karate; 6 months of Girl Scouts; knows how to handle a gun; generally practical
Biography Stub: When Kaya’s dad married Julia and Alexis’ mom two years ago, none of them had any idea that it would end with them here - wherever ‘here’ actually is. West Ham had already been an adjustment from Boston for Kaya. Life with her dad had always been comfortable but they’d still lived in an apartment, on the nicest side of town, and Kaya had been the center of her dad’s world. Moving to a new town, to the freaking suburbs, leaving behind her friends at the British International School of Boston, having to drive everywhere instead of being able to walk or hop on a bus or train, having a (step-) mom, having sisters. It was a whole new world.
She’d made it through a full year, thanks to the support of her sisters, Helena Wu, and strangely enough, Harry Bingham, before the smell came.
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Julia Bergman
Full Name: Julia Bergman
Face Claim: Emilija Baranac
Fic Title: It Takes A Village
Love Interest(s): Becca Gelb, Allie Pressman
Connections: Alexis Bergman (younger sister), Bergman (father), Miriam Bergman (mother), Abe Zaizen (step-father), Kaya Zaizen (step-sister), Kelly Aldrich (friend), Gwen Patterson (friend), Erika (friend), Olivia (friend), Madison Russo (friend)
Relevant Survivalist Skillset: 2 years of field hockey; experience mediating disputes among her friends and conflict between her sisters; cpr and first aid certified
Biography Stub: Abe could never replace Julia’s own dad but
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Alexis Bergman
Full Name: Alexis Bergman
Face Claim: Hailee Steinfeild
Fic Title: It Takes A Village
Love Interest(s): Bean Akkad
Connections: Julia Bergman (older sister), Bergman (father), Miriam Bergman (mother), Abe Zaizen (step-father), Kaya Zaizen (step-sister), Sam Eliot (friend), Becca Gelb (friend)
Relevant Survivalist Skillset: can easily go unnoticed if she wants (and sometimes when she doesn’t); 7 years of Girl Scouts; went through a Little House phase; surprisingly good at putting food together; charismatic
Biography Stub:
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🔪 . 𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽𝚈𝙼𝙾𝚄𝚂 𝙰𝚂𝙺𝙴𝙳 — could you do the same character comparison thing for the damsel in distress too if it's not too much trouble? that was so clever
to expand a little bit more, admin amanda put it in the best way : the damsel is existing in one genre as everyone else spirals into another and they have to take a crash course on survival. we want to see the character that needs to learn how to handle themselves . like you're starting at the main character's older sister, or best friend they have to save, or the superhero's significant other. we want to see where you can take them throughout this first season at camp silver lake !
CHARACTER COMPARISONS : elle tompkins from the society ( pre the pie ), bianca stratford from 10 things i hate about you, princess buttercup from the princess bride, mary jane watson from spiderman, nancy wheeler pre - season 1 from stranger things, elena gilbert from the vampire diaries ( mostly before she became a vampire but pretty much always ), bridget jones from bridget jones’ diary.
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