I as a teacher am going to teach children how to read and write. I am going to discuss an understanding of how a child’s literacy develops, how to establish a literate environment, my teaching and learning strategies, and provide an assessment. Reading and writing are very important part of our children’s education. It also is important that a teacher understands how to provide a classroom with resources to accomplish their goals.
Literacy Development
Children develop literacy skills every day that will help them become readers. When children are young it is a very exciting and critical time for learning. Children do not learn every literacy skill from the very beginning, it is a progressive process of learning that is supported by others to develop foundational skills …show more content…
The DIBELS test is about a package of sub-tests designed to be administered in 1-minute sessions. Its basic premise is that it can reduce reading development to a series of tasks, each measurable in one minute. Each test has arbitrary “benchmarks” which get more difficult to achieve in successive grades. The test authors claim that the sub-tests are built on one another to achieve reading proficiency and each prepares the child for the next test. That means that children who fail one test are failing in reading development according to the authors who made the DIBELS test.
AZMERIT is a test that is taken once to see what the students have learned over the school year. This test is an effective tool to support your child’s learning. The test subjects are reading, writing, and math. Some summative assessments examples would be end-of-unit or chapter tests, end-of term exams.
I would teach the students reading and writing by developing an understanding of how a child’s literacy develops, how to establish a literate environment, my teaching strategies, and will provide assessments to test what they have been