After the activity:
What I have learnt about verbalizing
and dialogue during this activity:
As an educator I need to
mediate the learning experience of my learners by providing meaningful
activities in an effort to help them develop their skills in dialogue and
verbalizing. Some of these activities include demonstration for students to
imitate, encouraging/praising learners for each accomplishment no matter how
small. When this is done, learners
feel confident and they also feel that their thoughts and ideas are valued by
their teachers. Students need to be
actively involved in their learning; having the freedom to express themselves
by sharing thoughts, ”ideas and
feelings and views” through responses to open-ended and reflective questions.
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(Optional) – Thoughts from
self-activities
I can assist students in
the following:
Articulation: This
involves verbalizing or putting into words.
As a teacher I need to create a warm and supportive environment where
students feel accepted and encourage to speak and respond to others with
confidence, clarity and respect. Some
activities that I use include –
Reading a list of words and students repeat the
words and give a thumbs up if they have the same beginning or ending sounds
as the sound being targeted; or have them producing words with the sounds.
Having students
producing a target sound in isolation following a model
Encouraging students to
create rhymes
Beginning a story and
have each student continuing a sentence or phrase in an effort to complete
the story.
Discussing what they
know about a particular topic, what they would like to know and after reading
discussing what they have learned.
Having students reading
in groups observing punctuation or speech marks (chain reading)
Modeling the teacher’s
reading
Reflection: ”Closely
related to articulation, reflection also requires that the learner think
about and verbalize the way they have undertaken tasks and the results of
these” After students would have read
or during reading ask questions such as:
What
do I understand or know already about this topic?
What
do I think is going to happen next?
What
did I learn?
What
do I think I will learn?
Do
I understand what I have just read?
What
kind of picture does this form in my mind?
What
can I do to understand this better?
What
does this remind me of?
What
was important?
What
were the most important points in this reading?
How
does it fit in with what I already know?
What
questions do I have?
I
have also tried having students reflecting in their journal but this tended
to be time consuming.
Exploration: “Exploration
is the final step. It involves generalizing what has been learned or
accomplished, to other circumstances or situations.”
Students are encouraged to use their knowledge of
sound to blend to make new words.
Add consonants, blends or digraphs to the rhymes
to make new words or transfer what they learned to read new words eg. They know the word may if
they change the m to pl they get play, or change the pl to w they get way.
Use the strategies learned in reading in other
subject areas.
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(Optional) – Other comments
From the brainstorm session I observed that a number
of my colleagues included dramatization as opportunities
for verbalizing and dialogue in their teaching. I am especially in sync with Theo’s contribution because those are activities
that I often use in my classes. I also
like Bernard’s contribution and it something I tried but have not been very
consistent. “Ask students to keep a journal where they will reflect and
write on their thoughts about particular topics, experiences in class,
then share them with the members of the class”.
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