Motivating to Read

Hi Everyone, 4/16/07

Everyone's presentation in class was very interesting and useful for our students in class. It seems that there are many ways to teach vocabulary acquistion with the students. Thank you all for sharing your great ideas. For sure, those techniques we discussed in class together will be implemented in my classes with my students. Dr. Rivera's in-class activities were very interesting as well. The feature fruit allows students to use their cognitive skills as they reflect on what they know about fruits. Sometimes, each student can support their choices based on the fruit's developmental stages of growth. The venn diagram was very interactive and definitely encourages students to join in in the discussions. The technique using the circular diagraming and putting related information regarding the stories was very organized and fluid. It allows everyone to see similarities and differences between the stories themselves. It gives students a chance to organize their thoughts and gives them ideas that might be useful to them. For example, as the discussion becomes more apparent using the venn diargram, this illustration can enable students to use this format as a basis of outlining ideas, and possibly give them possible angles to writing and presentations. Other things that we discussed such as journals, study guides, and other related activities were very informative and useful. These ideas help foster creativity and innovative ideas to learning through reading and writing. I am enjoyiing this class very much. Even though I am experiencing some tough times in my life, I honestly am learning alot from Dr. Rivera, and most of all, from everyone's ideas. Thank you everyone our time together so far. See you soon.

Si Albert