home

ABC, Is It As Easy As 1,2,3? [[image:new_ABC.jpg width="151" height="112" align="right"]]
Before beginning this unit I have not really given much thought about how I actually learnt things like the alphabet. Now I look back to primary school and realize that a lot of effort went into to those types of activities. Admittedly I was a slow learner, I did not learn to read properly until i was in grade 5 and my spelling ability was not great. It wasn't until I had Mr Haseman as a teacher that things started to improve. He helped me immensely I went from being a child who could not read to some one who could not get their nose out of books. He is the reason that I want to become a teacher, if I can do what he did for me for just one struggling child it would be worth it.

** Menu **
 * Learning to Read & Phonics


 * Teaching Reading


 * Reading Comprehension


 * Learning to Write


 * Multiliteracies


 * Assessment

__*When navigating through this wiki please only use the links on the pages, dont use the navigation part on the left of the screen__  This unit has given me plenty of information about lesson ideas and strategies for when I enter a classroom. Many of which are from the prescribed text [|'Developing Early Literacy,' by Susan Hill]. I have to say that at the end of the year when they are collecting 2nd hand books I will be keeping this text! Early in the semester when I was doing my readings I came across a statement that Susan Hill made in her text that i feel is extremely important to remember when faced with a group of young children all waiting for you to fill their minds. "Teaching children to read and write is not reducible to a simple set of techniques or strategies (p.11)." She goes on to explain that each child is different and each have had different experiences that will cause each of them to learn differently. I feel it is important to remember that no two children will ever learn in exactly the same way or at the same rate, there will always be children like myself that will have trouble. I think being a teacher and having that knowledge of what it feels like will be advantageous. I will know what those children are going through and will endeavor to do what Mr Haseman has done for me.
 * __Reference List__

This wiki is just a compilation of the basic information we have covered from week to week so far, and even by doing this activity it draws your attention to just how much available information is out there for teachers.