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STANDARD 1
All teachers must know a broad range of literacy techniques and strategies for every aspect of communication and must be able to develop each student's ability to read, write, speak and listen to his or her potential within the demands of the discipline.
Artifact: Plot Profile
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a plot profile that I completed on a book I was reading in my Principles to Teaching Literature to Child Youth course. This plot profile is a literacy strategy used to help students better organize and analyze important events that occur in a story, which make up its plot.
This plot profile activity serves as an effective literacy technique to enhance comprehension of text because it allows students to identify important events of a story that compose its plot and then analyze them in terms of their own personal interest level using a scale ranging from “calm” to “Wow!” This technique helps students to better understand the chronology of a story while making it meaningful to them by rating the events of a plot using an interest scale. The plot profile also allows students to effectively practice the language processes of reading, writing, and oral communication in the classroom through their reading of the text, writing out the events within the story’s plot, and then explaining their plot profiles to the rest of the class aloud using oral communication. These plot profiles function as a constructive discussion technique because it allows students to contrast and compare their plot profiles with each other via discussion and then further analyze why each event received the interest level rating it did from the student.
This artifact helped me grow as an educator because I learned how to implement an effective literacy technique for reading in the classroom. I never knew about plot profiles before and after creating my own in this course I can see its importance and usefulness for students’ literacy development. This artifact has allowed me to expand my thinking on literacy activities that can help students with their literacy skills while reading a text. This plot profile activity is something that I will certainly use in my future classroom to develop my students’ literacy skills and understanding of plot within a story or text.
All teachers must know a broad range of literacy techniques and strategies for every aspect of communication and must be able to develop each student's ability to read, write, speak and listen to his or her potential within the demands of the discipline.
Artifact: Plot Profile
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a plot profile that I completed on a book I was reading in my Principles to Teaching Literature to Child Youth course. This plot profile is a literacy strategy used to help students better organize and analyze important events that occur in a story, which make up its plot.
This plot profile activity serves as an effective literacy technique to enhance comprehension of text because it allows students to identify important events of a story that compose its plot and then analyze them in terms of their own personal interest level using a scale ranging from “calm” to “Wow!” This technique helps students to better understand the chronology of a story while making it meaningful to them by rating the events of a plot using an interest scale. The plot profile also allows students to effectively practice the language processes of reading, writing, and oral communication in the classroom through their reading of the text, writing out the events within the story’s plot, and then explaining their plot profiles to the rest of the class aloud using oral communication. These plot profiles function as a constructive discussion technique because it allows students to contrast and compare their plot profiles with each other via discussion and then further analyze why each event received the interest level rating it did from the student.
This artifact helped me grow as an educator because I learned how to implement an effective literacy technique for reading in the classroom. I never knew about plot profiles before and after creating my own in this course I can see its importance and usefulness for students’ literacy development. This artifact has allowed me to expand my thinking on literacy activities that can help students with their literacy skills while reading a text. This plot profile activity is something that I will certainly use in my future classroom to develop my students’ literacy skills and understanding of plot within a story or text.