I learned to read through hooked on phonics because my mother was afraid that if she taught me to read i would pick up her accent. I remember that i was really excited to always study with my hooked on phonics. I was also trying to remember how i learned to take notes because of something that had happened in my classroom. When i walked into my classroom the other day my teacher asked me how i remember what my teachers say during class. I told the class that i take notes while listening to my 3 hour lectures. And then without any instruction my teacher told them that they were going to write down notes to a move on penguins. She told them to write down keywords and sentences that they heard about penguins. The students were confused but some of my first graders had enough comprehension to at least write down one fact. But i was confused because when this was happening i was thinking about my own learning of note taking and how that was a major beginning to my reading comprehension, but i do not remember learning HOW to take notes. This is something that my group and i talked about towards the end. The strategies that we were given to help our reading comprehension we what we were talking about.
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Bri-You are lucky to have learned how to read using hooked-on-phonics (the only thing I know about the program is that it teaches children how to learn using phonemic awareness). My TE 301 placement was a Reading First School that only used phonemic awareness to teach reading. I struggled while helping the students because I had no idea how to break down the sounding-out of words. With the possibility of your internship being in a Lansing Public School that uses Reading First, this will greatly help you.
Bri- I think that taking notes (efficiently and effectively) is a an essential skill that all students need to have-as the text also discusses. I struggled with taking notes up until 6th grade. Finally, in 6th grade I had a teacher who spent the a few minutes every class, for the first few weeks, showing us different ways to take notes and what type of information to write in notes. When I teach, I am not going to assume that all students know how to take notes. I am going to be sure to teach them because I think that the skill is essential.
I feel the same way you do about note taking. I really don't remember learning to take notes, but I have noticed in my classroom as well that the students seem confused when asked to take notes. I am surprised your teacher threw them right into this because even my third graders have difficulty with this. To me it seems like such second nature to take notes, but if you've never learned it you can't do it.
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