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Created by Deanna Tucceri
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Hello! My name is Deanna Tucceri and I am a second grade teacher at Fields Road Elementary School. I am a third year teacher. I began my teaching career with Fifth grade and then moved into second grade. I have been teaching second grade for two years. I received my teaching degree from Mount Union College in Ohio and am currently enrolled in John Hopkins University getting my masters in Technology in Education. When I first began teaching second grade, I felt completely overwhelmed. My largest concern was that I was going to have to instruct my students on the basic skills of reading. I found that my second graders did not so much need reading attention focused on their fluency but on their reading comprehension. The ability to understand what they have just read was where my students were struggling. Hopefully this website will help you work with your student on improving their reading comprehension. |
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Course Description |
Many times reading is thought of as fluency or how well students can decode
words. But the students ability to comprehend or understand what they read is
also as important. Comprehension is considered a deep structure system that
allows readers to construct meaning as they read.
It is the reflective aspect of
the reader's own thinking that is vital in promoting critical thinking through
the application of the following comprehension strategies you will learn about
in this site. You will learn mainly about after reading strategies such as
making connections, determining author's purpose, and responding to reading
through discussions and writing.
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Course Objectives and Outcomes |
Upon completion of this section...
1. The learner will be able to assist their children in making meaningful connections of different types; text-to-self, text-to-text, and
text-to-world.
2. The learner will be able understand and identify author's purpose.
3. The leaner will be able to identify
reasons and ways of responding to reading through oral and written explanation.
4. The learner will be able to identify various after reading strategies and
promote them when reading with their children.
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Policies and Procedures |
1. Although we strongly suggest questions and comments regarding students
learning be dealt with online; if any major problems or concerns develop please
feel free to contact the instructors via e-mail or telephone.
2. Use good "netiquette" such as:
| a. Check the discussion board frequently and respond appropriately on the subject. (the discussion may post questions and answers that will help you individually work with your child) |
| b. Do not use children's' names. (we want to protect our students) |
| c. Focus on one subject and post topic title in subject heading. |
| d. Be professional and careful with your online interaction. |
| e. It if fine to use humor, but use
it carefully. The absence of face-to-face cues can cause humor
to be taken the wrong way. Feel free to use emoticons such as :) or ;) to let others
know that you are being humorous. |
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Getting to know you activity |
| If in Blackboard, please click on the Discussion Board button. This button will lead you to where you can discuss questions, concerns, and successes. In order to introduce yourselves and interact with the other parents working on this reading website, list your favorite book and your child's favorite books. Also, please post a brief explanation of why these books are your favorite. |
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