My Field Placement

Throughout the time that I have spent within my field placement, the teacher has allotted various small increments of time for vocabulary. The teacher usually spends less than five minutes discussing vocabulary that the students will see in a new book or when there is a question about a new vocabulary word. If the teacher is introducing multiple new words, she will spend between ten to fifteen minutes introducing the words, explaining the definitions of the words (and explaining which definition fits the best for the circumstance), and allowing students to make connections with the words. Once the teacher introduces the new words, she puts the new words on the word wall. This allows the students to reference the word wall throughout the day. Some of the materials that the teacher uses to promote literacy include specific content books, words presented visually, a word wall, a smart board, and dictionaries. When the teacher wants to focus on a particular subject, vocabulary list, or theme, she will use the specific content books. By doing so, students are able to see the spelling of the words and become engaged by putting the words on the word wall for …show more content…
In order to do so, the teacher splits the students into groups and assigns the groups to a listening center, smart board center, or a poetry center. Within the listening center are oral literacy games, literacy through art work (projects), and paired reading assignments (oral assignment). The smart board center includes working on spelling words on the smart board and reading a big book on the smart board. Finally, the poetry center includes literacy through math work, word work, and guided reading. When the students are writing, they are encouraged to look through a book of synonyms to use new, higher order words to improve their writing. This process of refining what was written occurs in the revising stage of their