Michelle S.- Reading Endorsement 2022

  Michelle Suggs Module 9             For me, standard 7.2 seems to be the most relevant to where I am at this point in my career. This standard states that candidates develop, reflect on, and study their own teaching practices through ongoing and cyclical collaborative and novice coaching experiences with peers and experienced colleagues. I do not have any plans to become a reading specialist/expert by title at this time. I decided to take these classes and get this endorsement hoping that I would glean something that I can use in my current classroom, which is self-contained special education. I do have all non-readers at this this time, but we are working on early literacy skills. I want to live the following “I can” statement: I can u se my professional judgment and practical knowledge to determine what reading instruction is needed for all students.             C...

  Michelle Suggs Module 8 Reading Experts             Teaching all children to read requires that all students are given excellent reading instruction. This could simply be the classroom teacher, but it could also be someone who has taken additional classes in reading instruction. These teachers are known as reading specialists, also known as reading experts, are  professionals with advanced preparation and experience in reading who have responsibility for the literacy performance of readers in general and struggling readers in particular . This includes early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary, and adult learners (https://www.readingrockets.org/). Through these courses, this is what I am hoping to become. I am currently teaching middle school, but I teach self-contained special education, so it is more like early literacy for struggling students.           ...

  Michelle Suggs April 11. 2022 Module 7 I can use my professional judgment and practical knowledge to determine what reading instruction is needed for all students. However, the problem is that when students enter the middle school, and possibly even the elementary school, it is expected that they can already read, and the curriculum does not afford enough time to go back and teach early literacy skills. I typically do not think of phonics instructions or even basic reading instruction as lessons for older grades. The other problem is that many students are not fluent readers, which does affect comprehension. I have had some students who could read fluently but had a difficult time actually comprehending what they read, but that is not the norm. Generally, students have a difficult time reading because they do not know so many of the words or they just have such difficulty connecting the words with a natural flow. This is an issue across all subjects. Math even has a great dea...