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Guided Response: In addition to responding to your instructor’s comments and questions, respond to at least two of your peers. Analyze how your peers described the use of constructivism. How would you further push constructivist principles in your teaching?

 

 

Theresa Johnson  
 

Week 3 Discussion 2

 

Building Words:

 

     Learning literacy has many steps to becoming fluent in reading, and one of the steps is learning how to connect different sounds and make a word. The importance of a child learning the basics will allow him and easier way to connect letters to form a words. As it states in our text “Students can learn words by building words under the teacher’s guidance”. By allowing students to create their own words by giving those letters to use will show them how words are formed.

 In my classroom I think I would use a word puzzle to help students learn how to make a word, by reading the clue that is attached to the puzzle so that they can learn how in the process to solve a problem. This activity will probably be a group effort, but once they have mastered this it will turn into a friendly competition to see who can build more words faster than the other.

For this activity to be a success in my class room I have to make sure that I have introduce the words properly and they understand the meaning and follow the direction given.

Making words as described in our text is basically ensuring that the teacher predetermines words to be made from the letters given and she guides them in making the correct words. Allowing the students to continue to add different letters to the word, it is given them the opportunity to develop more words by using as many letters to form new ones.

Also by using Constructivism which is a theory about how people learn. Based on the work of development psychologists, which basically means that by knowing how to recognize the sounds from different letters and by listening and understand the student will be able to construct words from using letters, which helps the student cognitive learning skills. Students seems to learn more words by doing an activity or hands on learning.  By using activities students catches on faster and remember how the different games work, it also helping their long-term and short-term memory.

 

Reference:

 

 

Rasinski, T. & Padak, N.D. (2013). From phonics to fluency: Effective teaching of decoding and reading fluency in the elementary school. Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

 Timothy Rasinski entitled, Making and Writing Words.

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Making words can be defined as, “the letters given, are not initially provided in the context of any one word—they are simply listed for the children; the teacher predetermines words to be made from the letters and guides students in making the words. Also, the Making Words activity moves on to making new words that are not fully represented by the original set of letters, and students sort the words they make into various categorical schemes” (Rasinski, 2013, Sec. 10).

Constructivism can be defined as, “describing how children learn by actively engaging in and manipulating their environment” (Rasinski, 2013, Sec. 10). 

Making words and constructivism can be correlated with one another in the classroom because students are given a handful of letters and taking those letters and making them into words.  Each word they make does not have to be the same as other students.  Some students may see the word ball in a bunch of letters, and he or she may play baseball which is a factor from his or her environment.  Another student may see cat which can correlate with his or her home life if he or she has a cat.  It just depends on the life they lead and the environments they are exposed to.

One way I would incorporate constructivism is to have the students write in a journal about their own experiences and let them share with the group or with a partner or with myself and compare notes with each other.  They will learn that neither one is wrong, and that different lives and cultures do exist.

Another way I would incorporate constructivism is to have the students read a chapter together and have them answer a hand full of questions given by me.  Each student will answer the questions but in his or her own way and the questions will be based off of experiences so they have to answer by using their own experiences and the chapter from the book.  So no answer will be wrong; instead each student will have an opportunity to gain an understanding of how their other classmates understand from their own environments.

Always utilizing a student’s environment will help them succeed.  A student can relate to the environment they are used to when they are introduced to it in the classroom.  If a student loves to play soccer, pick out a book about soccer and see them thrive in reading.  If a student loves the theater, pick a book about a play he or she may like and have them read about it.  Taking a student’s environment can only help the students thrive in the classroom.

References:

Rasinski, T. (1999, February). Making and writing words. Retrieved from http://www.timrasinski.com/presentations/article_making_and_writing_words.pdf

Rasinski, T. & Padak, N.D. (2013). From phonics to fluency: Effective teaching of decoding and reading fluency in the elementary school. Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

 

 

 



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