Course Reflection- Jami Holland

At the beginning of this course, honestly I did not know how much I would learn. But I have been suprised to learn from the articles we have read and from the online resources I have found. My favorite websites I have come across are Read, Write, Think and National Geographic. For Language Arts teachers, [...]

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Lesson #2- Jami Holland

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=812 I love the website Read, Write, Think. For Language Arts teachers, this website gives lessons for everything from studying character to peer-editing activities to so much more! This particular lesson has students looking at the song lyrics of the Billy Joel song We Didn’t Start the Fire. This lesson would be terrific as a [...]

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Lesson #1- Jami Holland

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=75 I really like this lesson. In my internship right now, my 7th grade classes have been working on writing. North Carolina requires 7th graders to have a Writing Portfolio, and submit 2 Research Papers and 2 On-Demand Papers throughout the year. My cooperating teacher has been talking with me about how difficult it is [...]

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Article 3-Jami Holland

I had a U.S. History teacher who gave our class about 50 vocabulary terms a week to learn and memorize. To say the least, that was the death of me! I like how this article speaks of the importance of not only learning vocabulary words and their definitions, but expanding to learn synonyms, antonyms, prefixes/suffixes, [...]

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Article 2 Summary- Jami Holland

Article 2: Margaret R. Coulton’s article about the multigenre paper discusses a new approach to the once old and boring research paper. This article looks at the benefits of using a multigenre research approach for students, so that they combine creativity with research. Coulton speaks of how too often research is something that has a [...]

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Articles 1 Summary- Jami Holland

Article 1: The “I” Poem article provides a look at how to use the “I” Poem to enhance students’ writing and reading comprehension. This article, by Linda Kucan, speaks of how students should have the opportunity to write about what they have read, to better their understanding. “Writing about what one has read is the [...]

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