LITERACY STRATEGIES

Observe your MST’s classroom and general practices you see around the school. Discuss
the areas below in context of what you observe in school and support with a photo and a
reference to reading when possible.

Describe the classroom environment.

A left-hand table that includes computers with small chairs for kids, resources shelves that
includes baskets with students needs ex: glues-color and normal pencil- pen color-cubes-
domino- eraser etc… and beside it, there is a teacher assistance table. In next there is a big
cupboard teacher can put everything on it, after cupboard in the corner there is a bookshelf
that includes storybooks and sofa with small table. Window on the right wall with students
notebooks shelves with some educational games and at the end of the wall in the corner
there is teacher desk (MST), smart board and whiteboard and in front of it, there is a carpet.
Three tables in the middle of the class and the fourth behind it.

Consider how the class is a print rich environment. What print can you see around the
room? (labels, captions, flashcards, headings, rules, instructions, timetable, flash cards,
etc) For each one you mention insert pictures and state the purpose of each one.

Science wall , that include science

important information in the
semester.
Jobs wall, teach each student
job to do during the week. For
example, teacher helper, one
of the students help a teacher
in the classroom. So teacher
put students name in the
bowel and each tow previous
students job come and take
after shake it.
Is there a variety of books and genres in the class? Mention some. How are they
displayed?
This shelf collect different of genres of books that chosen by the students from a school
library. Most of the time its collect picture story books, fantasy or oral tradition. Some of
the books depend on the phonics.
Describe the reading area in your classroom.

Book story shelf ,long sofa small carpet and yellow table.

Does the teacher read to the children? How often? How does she motivate them to read?

The teacher set in front on the desk and students while students set on the carpet.
Sometimes it is before students back to home, and she takes them every Tuesday to the
library and they can borrow any book they want.
Describe the reading approaches have you observed? Where do the children sit? How does
the teacher encourage participation?

Read aloud Shared reading Guided reading Independent reading

 Teacher take a  Teacher sit at the

big book for middle of the
reading with all curved table, four  She give them
 Teacher children or three of chance to
read at  Asking students students sit and read by them
first time what they can follow teacher selves by
then she see in the book reading giving them a
let her  Students sitting  Discuss cover reading
students to on the mat page corner
read it while teacher  Discuss a title =
again sitting on the senses they don’t
together wood desk know to read the
but she word she start
doesn’t with a first letter
she only and slide it
help them
Consider how the teacher reminds children of any concepts of print when reading? (left-to-
right, top to bottom, punctuation, author, illustrator, etc)

When teacher use shared reading strategy, for example when MST read a story for the
students before she starts to read a story she discusses a cover page with students. During
reading story sentence teacher point on the word from right to left.

How does the teacher teach phonics and word attack skills to children? Describe a phonics
lesson you observed and mention how the children are scaffolded to recognise the word
and get the meaning.

Teacher teach the students phonics by reading a story, flashcards, educational games and
phonics songs.

What comprehension strategies are the children learning/using?

Teacher use repetition strategy for kids unless they by themselves

Ask your teacher about special reading events carried out in the school - e.g ‘Book
Character Day’, DEAR Time, Book Fairs, ‘Extreme Reading’ competitions etc.

 Book character day

 School reading challenge

Describe some types of writing activities or the method the teacher uses for writing – e.g
emergent writing, copy writing, dictations, etc

 Guided writing
 Shared writing
 Emergent writing
 Sight word dictation
 Copy writing