One of my hardest parts with the running record was the patience piece, as you said it was hard not to correct your student but allow her to use context clues and sounding it out to accomplish it on her own. Im consciously struggling all the time in the classroom right now with when I should jump in, slowing myself down and letting the students try to find their own strategies and tools before i offer my own. In relation to my own LP student, it was interesting to hear you talk about your student repeating the same word four times before pronouncing it correctly. As a native English speaker, I myself sometimes am reading this way aloud in Spanish and I was guessing that many Native English speakers reading in Spanish would need to say it out loud a couple times. In a two way immersion, do you notice that students are needing to read a word (in their second language) out loud a couple of times before really feeling comfortable with it?
What a remarkable young lady! You have some very enthusiastic learners in your class. I loved your retelling of her process of sounding out the words and trying to determine the meanings herself using the context of the illustrations in the book. It was also interesting to me that she took the time to enjoy the story as much as she did - rather than just getting through the exercise as quickly as possible.
I think I will want to ask my reader about her strategies as well. I hadn't thought to do that.
One of my hardest parts with the running record was the patience piece, as you said it was hard not to correct your student but allow her to use context clues and sounding it out to accomplish it on her own. Im consciously struggling all the time in the classroom right now with when I should jump in, slowing myself down and letting the students try to find their own strategies and tools before i offer my own. In relation to my own LP student, it was interesting to hear you talk about your student repeating the same word four times before pronouncing it correctly. As a native English speaker, I myself sometimes am reading this way aloud in Spanish and I was guessing that many Native English speakers reading in Spanish would need to say it out loud a couple times.
ReplyDeleteIn a two way immersion, do you notice that students are needing to read a word (in their second language) out loud a couple of times before really feeling comfortable with it?
What a remarkable young lady! You have some very enthusiastic learners in your class. I loved your retelling of her process of sounding out the words and trying to determine the meanings herself using the context of the illustrations in the book. It was also interesting to me that she took the time to enjoy the story as much as she did - rather than just getting through the exercise as quickly as possible.
ReplyDeleteI think I will want to ask my reader about her strategies as well. I hadn't thought to do that.
Beautiful wedding picture, too by the way :)
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