Blog 3

Blog 3

There are many ELA standards. One standard that I feel most prepared to teach right now is the standard about finding the main idea of a reading passage. This is a skill that has been taught since the first day of kindergarten, and with my existing knowledge, I feel like I am prepared to teach this standard. A standard that I don't feel prepared to teach right now is the standard that deals with the structure of a reading passage. I feel like many of my classes have not really focused on the structure of reading passages, so I do not feel like I could accurately teach this standard to other students. 

CPALMS has a lot of tools and resources in their educator toolkit. One of the resources is the Lesson Plan Development Initiative. This initiative works with teachers and educators all over the state to come up with original lesson plans to go along with the standards. I think that this resource is really helpful because it helps teachers know exactly what they need to teach in order to be on track with the standard. I would use this resource in my classroom by maybe implementing a few of the lessons. This way I would know for sure that I am covering all of the required material for the standard.

I learned a lot of new skills while I was working on the newsletter design. One thing that I learned how to do was use columns in my newsletter. This feature was very cool because I could fit a lot more information on just one page. Another thing that I learned was how to incorporate a hyperlink into the newsletter. This is helpful when trying to add a link to a website. I like using a newsletter because you can fit a lot of information into a small space. I will be able to use this skill in my future career when I need to communicate important information to parents or other people.