ELA Methods 1

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After reading t he common core state standards for reading literature and reading informational texts, I find that there is a lot expected of a high school student. After reading over the requirements of 9-12 grades multiple times I started to think about they ways in which my teachers may have incorporated these lessons in to my day without me acknowledging it at a student. Being able to understand the authors point of a story or article comes natural to most students who are already in their last years of high school. Although I don't remember my teacher specifically asking me to " Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument" I see how they could incorporate this into a more entertaining or engaging lesson that shows we can do it. While the common core state standards require a lot from the students, being able to read and understand informational texts is the most inportant tool you can come away with from...

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I definitely found it interesting that there is not a specific category for Visual Literacy in the Common Core ELA State Standards. I see why it may be overlooked as I think teachers know that students often learn how to make visual connections outside of the classroom. This is not a sound way of teaching though because as teachers we can never assume that students know about the content that you teach them, this creates a stereotype in the classroom that will make students not want to speak up if they have a question. I think visual literacy can be used in most of these categories of CCSS for ELA. Adding any sort of material (Visual or not) that adds helpful way for the students to understand the material is helpful. Providing presentations and visual materials like pictures or drawings that might reflect instances that connect more with the student. I did however find some requirements in the CCSS related to visual literacy in the section "Integration of knowledge and Ideas CCSS...

      In discussing the topic of graphic novels, I find that people are often introduced to them at an early age because it helps them see the settings that characters are in without having to explain it through the text. Growing up I noticed that my classmates would often read Calvin and Hobbs but It didn't interest me because I found that visualizing the characters and their surroundings myself was one of the best parts about reading. I did however often read the comics in the newspaper every morning with my dad, it was a good way for us to hangout and gave us something to talk about and relate to our everyday lives. I just recently became more engulf in the world of graphic novels because of a college class I recently took. I think the class was called "World View Through Children's Lit" and this class allowed me to read literature from different cultures and allowed me to see their cultural settings that I wouldn't previously be able to visualize myself. Ha...