Week 6 Tute

This week, we looked at the language of teaching reading to students. This looked at the meaning of the words and then discussing the purpose of using this in the classrooms.

In the lecture, we began to understand what is reading, and its purpose in life. This looked at a set of text with sections missing. This was then interpreted by each student who wrote down what they thought the word should be in the missing section of the text. This discussed that every person has a unique way of looking at text and that we should cater for that in the classroom.

The lecture then showed a video of someone doing a running record with a child. This helped students begin to understand how a running record goes and the way to interpret the data that the student shows.

 In the tutorial we looked at the language of reading. Language is important for us because it communicates what we need to tell the class. The class in their groups looked at the different words such as orientation, inferential meaning and ellipsis and attempted to find the meaning. In our group, Jamie and I discussed and found that we knew some of the language but knew some meanings that the other did not. This showed that everyone retains different parts that make meaning with themselves. The purpose of this class was to understand the meaning and use of this language so that in future, we can teach this in the classroom.

This has now helped us to understand the use of language and to better understand the power of reading and making meaning from the text.