Blog 7

The first thing that stood out to me in the Kidwatching article was the student named Hannah. In her discussion with the teacher she explained how she could read and remember the words, but she couldn’t spell it. I find that interesting because even up until now a lot of children, teenagers, etc. Can see and visualize a word but when it comes to trying to spell it, we go blank and just lucky for us we have spell check to back us up on everything. Again, Hannah mentioned that when she can look at a word and know what that word is and supposed to be just by visualization and she would be able to point it out if she noticed it somewhere else. She just would not know how to spell it if it came down to it, she would have to think of all the letters. The next thing I noticed was the student named Max. I liked how max was able to clearly give detail about what a script is and why it is important. As it was said in the text, a way of supporting a student linguistics and conceptual development is to encourage reflective dialogue. I just like the idea of that. You want to keep the children wondering. You want to propose questions to get the children talking and reflecting on what they know or ask questions about what they don’t know. My biggest takeaway was knowing and learning how to provide substantive responses to the children's demonstration of knowledge. I also agreed when it was said that “if we want children’s language to come to life in the classroom then we have to provide a rich environment for learning”. To me that is extremely important because, you want to make sure that your classroom is fully equipped with the material needed to guarantee the student's success.