Reading and Writing

As I was reading the Yopp and Yopp reading, I agreed with the central idea that written experiences will greatly enrich your vocabulary, even more so than a reading experience although that is required as well.  I could really relate to this because as I was learning spanish, I noticed that whenever I attempted to write anything I found myself searching and seeking out the right words to use, which in turn helped me to learn new words to use in my vocabulary. So from a personal experience, this really hit home to me and helped me to relate this reading to my own life. 

Further in the reading, I liked the idea of the "Ten Important Words". I think this brings a different strategy into the classroom for reading, especially young readers or struggling readers.  I think that it takes a comprehensive approach, that you really have to read the piece to truly participate in the activity, as well as bringing the class together and comparing answers and asking questions.  I thought that this was a great thing for the class as a whole to do.


The second reading reminded me a lot of the different activities that we did on Tuesday at the end of class.  I loved that there were several ideas and guidelines to making two letter, big letter words, and double vowel words within this reading to really help out a teacher looking to do this kind of lesson.  I always appreciate authors who take time to provide their audience with things like this if it is in the right context. I also like that everyone can be involved at once and get immediate feedback from the teacher. 


As I was looking up websites that I would use as a teacher, I came across this one that has multiple writing prompts for all ages.  I liked the ones in second grade so that's why I chose that particular page of the website!


2nd grade writing prompts