Yesterday was the first tutoring session that I had with my students for intervention purposes. This week my focus is to work on context clues. I don't want to teach them vocabulary because the words used on the test are unpredictable. Instead, I want to teach them tools they can use when they come across a word that they don't know on their STAAR test. During the tutoring session, we played Context Clues Jeopardy where they had to figure out the meaning of the word by looking at clues around the word. I also had them complete a context clues worksheet with their teams. Tomorrow, we will be going to the computer lab and I will have them take a few quizzes and play a context clues game. The quizzes will help me assess which students are really understanding how to look for context clues and which students are still struggling.
Today, I taught a lesson to my classes using an instructional strategy called Story Impressions that I learned from training last week. Three other English teachers came to observe my classroom so that they could see how the instructional strategy was taught and put into place. I was very nervous; so nervous I begin to sweat! Luckily, my kids did so well and were so patient with me even though I messed up at times. They are great! :) One of my colleagues was nice enough to write me a note complimenting my teaching The note really made my day and I thanked her later! She is a wonderful teacher and I only hope to be as good of an educator as her some day.
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