Week #3- Assignment 1

1.

1. How does this activity engage students who are at different levels of literacy development? Ms. Perez reads together with the class as a whole, with all students following along at the same pace. while reading, she focuses on word-identification and points out high- frequency words so that students on all levels can keep up with the pace.
2. During her explicit phonics lesson, how does Ms. Perez support student's problem-solving skills? She first brakes up the word (ex: OT) and adds different letters as prefixes and allows the students to read them. After that, they try it on their own. This makes it easier for them to figure it out how to read on their own. 
3. Based on what you saw in the video, what are different ways that shared reading can be used to promote literacy? Shared reading is a great factor in helping students be able to recognize and read words and phonics fluently. It also helps them understand what they read. 

 2.

1. Why does she think it's important for students to verbalize their strategies? By verbalizing the strategies that they're using, students internalize it and it helps them to use it in the future. 
2. What else do you knows about how she helps students build meaning in text? She uses a technique, in which she covers a word in the sentence and students have to try to think of what word it is based on the context of the sentence. 

3. 

1. How does Ms. Perez organize her classroom to support a wide range of learners? There are learning centers in which students are divided according to their level of reading. Ms. Perez and the student-teacher both join the different groups and assist them according to the individual help that they each need.    
2. How are reading and writing connected in classroom activities? She brings the two together with many activities. For example, when they read a book about fish, they wrote about it after. And with other things that they read, they learned how to write notes on the different important aspects in the text and then wrote a book on what they learned about what the read. 

4.  

1.  How does Ms. Perez use ongoing individual assessment to guide her instruction? She believes in doing assessments on her students a few times a year. With this assessment, she is able to create her lessons and focus on each students needs. 
2. How can the class profile be used to help group students and differentiate instruction? After assessing the class profile, she is able to see what the students' different needs are and she groups them according to their abilities. 
3. How can ongoing assessment be integrated into my own classroom practice? I currently don't tea h, but hope to use assessment as a means to create lesson plans and help every students learn according to their abilities so they can be motivated and achieve the most they possibly can!