Skip to main content

Popular posts from this blog

Keystone- Reflection on New Literacies

Sarah Kovalenko Reflection on New Literacies Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. Traditional or foundational literacy is the use of printed or written materials to comprehend, analyze, or communicate words and text. Included in foundational literacies are textbooks, novels, and articles, which may be of any topic and of various contexts. The traditional approach to literacy has been used for many years in the classroom, and has been effective and successful. However, times change, and in the 21 st century technology plays a major role in our lives. In order to ensure that students are well prepared for life beyond school, they need to be given the opportunity to use and explore tech tools. The New Literacies are used to help students learn content, while getting all the gains of using technology. Students learn how to interpret words and images that they come across in tech tools, and they learn to communicate language using multimedia and online programs. St...

Keystone- Lesson Plan

Candidate’s Name: Sarah Kovalenko Grade Level: 3 Title of the lesson: ELA/Sequence of Events Length of the lesson: 2 lessons of 45 minutes each Central focus of the lesson (The central focus should align with the CCSS/content standards and support students to develop an essential literacy strategy and requisite skills for comprehending or composing texts in meaningful contexts) Key questions: ●      what do you want your students to learn? ●      what are the important understandings and core concepts you want students to develop within the learning segment? Students will learn about sequence of events. They will learn how to comprehend a given story and understand the different events in the order that they occur in the story. Students will also practice writing a UDL book, as well as explore important vocabulary words. Theory Base:   Focus on the educational theories that a...