Children begin to learn language as soon as they are born, while they grow their language of speech and skills begin to evolve. Children learn how to communicate their feelings towards others based off of what they have learned from their environment at home. Based on what they learned before school, it affects their development of literacy. Children in the U.S. today, about one-third, lack the ability to learn. This is why language development is very important. Often teachers in Preschool and Kindergarten get a wide range of children with experience in books, some students have as little as 25 hours or less with experience in book reading. This devastating because children as little as nine months being to express their love …show more content…
We brought in a roll of toilet paper and we told them take as much paper as you want. Miss. Chapman took four, Tyrone took one, Dashara took 5, and I took three. Miss. Chapman showed the example by going first and said four things about herself. When it was Tyrone turn, he struggle and couldn’t think of any. We skipped him and Dashara went on and on about herself. After I was done, we had to ask Tyrone questions to get him to say something about himself. Next we introduced our wordless picture book, “Mr. Wuffles” by David Wiesner, this book was able a cat, some tiny aliens, and ants. During the book the alien ship breaks down and the ants help the aliens, but the cat, Mr Wuffles scares them. Throughout the book we want our students to tell us what they thought was happening. They were really interested in this book and towards the end of this lesson we were running out of time. For the writing activity the students wrote on blank sheets of paper to be the authors of a certain page this book. They wrote down what the aliens were saying and drew some pictures to describe what they …show more content…
Once again we used the CROWD prompts to allow the students share their thoughts about the reading. I asked the question, “How do you think the dog felt living in a different place every night.” Tyrone answered, “He has to sleep and the box and the box is not a good place to sleep, it’s wet right? He need’s a bed, or a tree house, or a house.” This is a type of question that some students can relate to and understand because Dashara had mentioned that she was in a shelter at one point. During our writing time we used a blank paper to let our students describe what they would do if they found a stray dog. In Tyrone’s picture he said he would play hide and seek with the