September 23rd Post

This reading has been my favorite thus far. It was so helpful and it introduced me to new, fun ways towant to read and they would want to write if teachers provide strong development of children's literacy in an exciting, attention grabbing way.

encourage young children as writers as well as writers. If schools nationwide took these tactics into consideration, I believe that young students' reading and writing development would look much different, in a better way, than it does today. Students would

I enjoyed reading about the different strategies explaining how to boost children's confidence and curiosity with reading. It was so fascinating how much it helped students to learn to read when they were taught to reference back to the words that they are already familiar with. The idea of putting students' pictures and name by the corresponding letters of the alphabet was FABULOUS! I will definitely be using this idea in my future classroom.

Below is a cute YouTube video. It is fun, upbeat, reading rap for young children. I think it would be a great idea to play it for your class before you go into a lesson about the alphabet or before a reading activity. After they watch it they will be ready and motivated to learn. Go take a look!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi-nn1uVN1Y