The House of Fish

  For blog  post #2, you will think about your literacy experiences from grades six through twelve (your secondary school years). Were they positive? Negative? Which books impacted you the most during that time? Why? Which teachers impacted you the most? What did they do that was either positive or negative? (Please do not use real names if negative). How will you use those memories/experiences to make your classroom a place where literacy is a good word? Explain. The questions should be answered in the content of the blog post -- in other words, don't just write answers to the questions. Write a paragraph or two where you weave in the answers to the questions in a well-written and understandable blog post. Secondary schooling and literacy often did not reflect what I have witnessed at my time in HBU and student teaching last semester. My time in the classroom with literacy often was take this book read it and come back ready to talk about it in class several weeks l...

Word: Consistency  Reading and overall Literacy is one of societies greatest push towards the advancement of knowledge we have today starting with woodblock printing (9th century) in East Asia and furthered with the Printing Press (1436.) These inventions sparked periods of innovation like never before but required a strong learning curve. This is where the word consistency enters and it's effect on overall literacy is profound. At one time it is likely that someone close to us read a variety books to us as children, sometimes even multiple times. This is was the start of our literate journey listening to the vowels, grammar, sentence structure and often associating works to images on the pages. The repetition and consistency of reading over and over throughout childhood up to the rest of your life provides more and more each time we pick up words on a page. With a level of subconscious and conscious soaking of information  that is astounding from verbal queues, emotional gaug...