Teacher Interview Paper
Finally, I interviewed a teacher who implements the language arts curriculum in
3rd grade (see Appendix C). I learned that Flower uses the Wonders reading curriculum for language arts instruction. Flower explained in the interview that she uses Wonders as a guide and pulls in supplement materials to meet all the standards for 3rd grade. When talking about the strengths and weaknesses of this program Flower stated, “there are games that go along with our curriculum online, that’s a positive to our curriculum but a negative is that there is too many topics covered in a week, we don’t have enough time to cover all of the topics”. When talking about the contents of the curriculum Flower stated. “within the curriculum we do not touch upon that (social …show more content…
I first assessed the students using the school’s curriculum screening assessment (see Appendix G), as directed to by school staff. Then, based on the recommendations made by Roberts and Meiring (2006) I had the students complete a writing assignment so I could assess their writing Roberts and Meiring suggested evaluating an authentic writing assignment. I told the students to write a short story about anything they wanted to write about. I then analyzed students writing samples (see Appendix H). I discovered that the students all misspelled words that should be in their existing schema, such as sight words and high frequency words. The students also showed that they had little knowledge of spelling patterns including CVC and CVCe. To address this, I completed research to find what strategies have worked for spelling patterns for other students. I then stumbled upon Singleton’s article and found that Words Their Way worked in her classroom for students that showed data like the 3 3rd graders I was working with (2013). I then researched Words Their Way to get more information on the book and Templeton (N.D.) listed all the positives of this book’s strategies and why it should be used. I found that Templeton suggested using Words Their Way for intervention with students that cannot apply basic spelling patterns. After I found this correlating information I went and rented the Words Their
3rd grade (see Appendix C). I learned that Flower uses the Wonders reading curriculum for language arts instruction. Flower explained in the interview that she uses Wonders as a guide and pulls in supplement materials to meet all the standards for 3rd grade. When talking about the strengths and weaknesses of this program Flower stated, “there are games that go along with our curriculum online, that’s a positive to our curriculum but a negative is that there is too many topics covered in a week, we don’t have enough time to cover all of the topics”. When talking about the contents of the curriculum Flower stated. “within the curriculum we do not touch upon that (social …show more content…
I first assessed the students using the school’s curriculum screening assessment (see Appendix G), as directed to by school staff. Then, based on the recommendations made by Roberts and Meiring (2006) I had the students complete a writing assignment so I could assess their writing Roberts and Meiring suggested evaluating an authentic writing assignment. I told the students to write a short story about anything they wanted to write about. I then analyzed students writing samples (see Appendix H). I discovered that the students all misspelled words that should be in their existing schema, such as sight words and high frequency words. The students also showed that they had little knowledge of spelling patterns including CVC and CVCe. To address this, I completed research to find what strategies have worked for spelling patterns for other students. I then stumbled upon Singleton’s article and found that Words Their Way worked in her classroom for students that showed data like the 3 3rd graders I was working with (2013). I then researched Words Their Way to get more information on the book and Templeton (N.D.) listed all the positives of this book’s strategies and why it should be used. I found that Templeton suggested using Words Their Way for intervention with students that cannot apply basic spelling patterns. After I found this correlating information I went and rented the Words Their