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Discussion1and2week4.docxSurname 4
Part 1
1. Title and author of your chosen story
· The Arab and His Camel By Dog Sultan
2. The reason why you selected the story
I chose this story because it has some moral lessons for kids to be conscious about people who pretend to be good yet they have ill motives.
3. The steps you will take to prepare your story for telling
For this story, I will take the step of providing images of the camel and the Arab master so that the kids get the picture of what I will be talking about.
4. Things to consider when performing the story
When performing the story, I will consider the tonal variation. In this case, I will use a rough tone to symbolize the Camel and a normal tone with an Arabic ascent to symbolize the master. I will also use body language like frowning to show the anger if the master at the end of the story.
5. How will you model good story telling to your students
I have to develop some aspects so that my students gain a good story telling skill. One, I will teach them how to tell stories before an audience whereby they have to avoid being shy and present the story in an interesting way. They have to apply facial expressions, body language, tonal variations and exaggerate some parts to make the story more interesting.
6. The specific culminating question about the story
The questions that I will ask after telling the story is “what are the lessons learnt from this story?”
What did you notice at the beginning of the story?
Who looks foolish in the story?
7. Which common core standard for K-5
The common core state standards important for this lesson include asking a question to demonstrate the understanding of the question, recounting stories and describing characters of the story.
Part 2
Discuss ways in which we use alphabetic in our daily lives
Alphabetic principle is the application of letters and sounds to retrieve pronunciation. We use this principle in our daily lives while talking many words and phrases. This is because in everything that we say, it has pronunciation where there is a mixture of letters and wounds in each word. This makes sense in the words we speak. The examples have been provided in the video whereby the children choose a shape like a vest, and then she is asked what she has chosen and what sound it starts with, an amazing example to the kids.
Review of the book chosen
The book I have chosen is titled Effective Ways to Build Your Vocabulary written by Johnson O’Connor. The book is addressing the steps to better vocabulary to any learning beginner at any age. The book also provides other vocabulary building materials including story books, tapes and CDs with English movies or tutorials about vocabulary. Definitely this book meets my assigned criteria because it provides mechanisms of building up one’s vocabulary with the perspective of enhancing their career in any field. The book has full of motivations like increasing the learning pace of an individual needs dedicated and consistent approach which I feel is an important part for one to know when learning vocabulary. It has also the techniques of mastering and improving vocabulary by advising readers to use dictionaries and have consistency in reading story books with other comprehensive materials like news articles, newspapers and magazines so that their vocabulary can improve. It also has the techniques of study and ere review on a regular basis so that vocabulary becomes part and parcel of an individual and thus masters and improves his/her vocabulary. I can use this book in class to teach how to improve vocabulary skills by initially using the vocabulary words provided in it and then apply all the techniques mentioned in the book to improve the vocabulary skills of the students.
Works cited
Dog Sultan. The Arab and His Camel. A collection of short stories. Last republication 2012.
