Compelling question: how can I effectively teach vocabulary to fifth grade students in all subject areas using technology?
Background
Throughout this program, I have been exploring different ways to engage my elementary students and promote their vocabulary development in all subject areas. This website outlines how my coursework has influenced my development as a literacy specialist. Everything I have learned falls into three themes:
1-New Literacies and Media
2-Teachers as Researchers
3-Teachers as Leaders
Please navigate this site to see what has inspired me through my journey to better engage and instruct my students. Each page offers one part of the answer to my compelling question; I can creatively and effectively engage students in vocabulary instruction by using technology, using teacher research to guide my practice, and leading both in and outside of my classroom. This summer, I will be completing my final course and page, which will focus around the theme of global learning.
Throughout this program, I have been exploring different ways to engage my elementary students and promote their vocabulary development in all subject areas. This website outlines how my coursework has influenced my development as a literacy specialist. Everything I have learned falls into three themes:
1-New Literacies and Media
2-Teachers as Researchers
3-Teachers as Leaders
Please navigate this site to see what has inspired me through my journey to better engage and instruct my students. Each page offers one part of the answer to my compelling question; I can creatively and effectively engage students in vocabulary instruction by using technology, using teacher research to guide my practice, and leading both in and outside of my classroom. This summer, I will be completing my final course and page, which will focus around the theme of global learning.
Common Core and Essential Standards Links:
Reading:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Mathematics: Mathematics Practice 6
Science: 5.L.2.1 Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems,including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands
Social Studies: 5.H.1.2 Summarize the political, economic and social aspects of colonial life in the thirteen colonies.
Reading:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Mathematics: Mathematics Practice 6
Science: 5.L.2.1 Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems,including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests, and grasslands
Social Studies: 5.H.1.2 Summarize the political, economic and social aspects of colonial life in the thirteen colonies.