Response to Breanne

I definitely see how literacy is incorporated into Science and Social Studies in my placement. Actually I have seen more literacy in Science and Social Studies class compare to English Language Art class. There are a lot of writing in Science and Social Studies class because students need to write lab reports do research on the topics that they are learning in Social Studies class and write down information about it. Now the MEAP test is done, I can wait to see the real English Language Art class. Until this year, I was always placed in either Kindergarten or first grade. So I never got a chance to see a textbook used in the classroom. However, now I see how textbooks are used in classroom and textbooks contains very important contents but the way it is used in the classroom does not really delivery the contents to students. For example in Social Studies class, students take turns to read each paragraph. I see many students are not paying attention when other students read for them. Then, when we go to computer labs to do research on the topic that they learned, not many students know what they have to research on. Thus I think if we start to use some practices to be actively reading through textbooks, they will really benefit to students to comprehend the textbook better.