Off to school
Linda's Story (3)
Linda could remember when her understanding began to change. It was like the coming of the dawn. She had gone down to her first class, with her arms laden with a pile of books, that she had volunteered to mark and to support the teacher.
Over the years, she had learnt a great deal about teaching through watching teachers in the various classrooms that she was assigned. She could see the strengths in each teacher and would listen to the different ways they presented material to their students. When a teacher asked her to sit alongside of the child to help in a lesson, she had many ideas of what she could do and an understanding of the curriculum.
Linda's Story (1)
Linda Wilson walked down the now empty corridor, hearing only the noise of her heels on the hard floor. A moment before, the corridor was filled with the noise of children carrying laden bags as they went to the exit doors and their way home. She had once forgotten to check the sickroom. Sometime later, after the buses had all gone a child emerged and had to be driven home by the principal. That had made her very thorough.
Linda’s Story
Learning Issues and Immediate Needs.
Linda is a fictional character, through whom the issues that teachers and school staff face day by day are considered and solutions found.
Finger Spelling and Model Making.
Using Word Model Acticvity
Reading and spelling are difficult for some children to comprehend and gain competence in. These two areas have different outcomes. Reading is recognising a word and being able to comprehend its meaning and to use that comprehension in predicting the words that are likely to come next and to understand what a story or passage is about. Sometimes that comprehension pushes the reader into a guessing procedure which may give a similar or appropriate word but the wrong word nevertheless.