This point is very important to realistic fiction because it is saying that students can gain cultural knowledge through interacting with the realistic geographic contexts. Students can relate to other cultures and see how they are similar to their own cultural identity. This is an important lesson to teach in students who are in a world full of diversity and interesting cultures. It is also a culturally responsive approach to teaching realistic fiction.

This was helpful and an important point in this article because through realistic fiction, the boys were empowered to initiate social action in order to make a change. The fact that literature such as realistic fiction had such a powerful impact on students is important to keep in mind in future teaching.

element: information about the person's personality

element: chronological order of birth, adulthood, and death

I also think it is important to time students at how long they partake in the writing process because they can see how much they have grown over the course of the year. It's important for students to see this because it can give them confidence to push further.

I really like this idea of watching the video as a class because it allows not only the teacher to reflect but also the students to reflect on their own behavior. By doing this students can see how they need to change in order to make the literature circle a more positive experience.

Based on this information and the dialogue at the beginning, I can see that the teacher needs to greatly improve the sense of community in the classroom. Creating a socially safe environment for all students is a necessity for all students to learn. Certain qualities of character need to be addressed to the whole class seeing as this is a huge problem to their learning.

I agree with vygotski's notion because when given opportunity to share ideas, students can learn more about other ideas and viewpoints from peers. This is how students grow to change, develop, and better their own ideas and thoughts about a particular reading, topic, or issue.

I think teaching is most effective when the teacher finds ways to engage students through personal connections and experiences. Students learn in a variety of different ways and it is important to also incorporate their interests as well as their learning styles.

This sentence made me think about an article I read about about funds of knowledge that families can offer to the school and their children. For example, a mother who knows how to sew, crochet, and make clothes can be a fund of knowledge that can be helpful to students. Connecting these funds of knowledge and overall experiences that children are most familiar with to the classroom curriculum will make it more purposeful and meaningful to students. I believe this is something the teacher is realizing.

Giving into students curiosity is a way to engage them into a topic. Also the teacher connects the curriculum to the outside world. This teaches students more about the environment and community that they live in. They are also able to make a personal connection and become engaged in this way. The discussion about the world around them is a lot more beneficial and though provoking then talking about apple sauce and teddy bears. It is important to remember that children are curious and want to learn about the world around them.

Here the teacher is reflecting on her experiences which is important to do in order to improve your own teaching. It seems that she wants to shift her pedagogy as she wants to incorporate the world of literacy outside the classroom into the classroom and her lessons. I believe this will help her students she deems as "struggling" if she transfers their knowledge of literacy at home into the classroom.

It is clear that Aaron is engaged in the stories the old man is telling him. This made me think about the importance of literacy and how we should be expressing this to students. Aaron is interested in how the old man wrote letters to his mother during the war as a way to communicate. This can be an engaging way for students to think about literacy. It also gives literacy and writing a purpose. What the old man is telling him, reinforces Aaron's purpose to learn how to read and write. This is something that can be taken into the classroom.

This exemplifies how important it is to get to know the students in your classroom. Here the teacher is seeing the how well the student is participating in literacy in his own vernacular. Now that she sees Aaron's wonderful use of literacy, she can't apply it to the classroom to advance Aaron and other students' knowledge of literacy in different avenues.

In order to prepare for this standard, class debates can be very useful toward students building their opinions, arguments, evidence, and support. After the debate, students will end up with a strong argument with support.

Common examples for helping students reach this standard is by calling it the silent e or magic e. Also, students need to know that the silent/magic e makes the vowel say its name. Therefore, making the vowel have a long vowel sound.

In order to develop this skill, a story map is an example of a graphic organizer that can be helpful to the student by means of organizing their ideas. Referring back to this story map will help the students when it comes to summarizing the text.

In order to gain information from the text students require skill of knowing what events are most important and what details are most important to the story. This will help students with their overall understanding of the story.

This requires students to have knowledge of various elements of narrative texts and informational texts.

this explanation requires students to have knowledge of various elements of creative text (verse, rhythm, meter)

It is important that topics such as these are brought up in conversation in the classroom so that teachers can build good character and strong values. It also brings together the class community as these rich dialogues are at the heart of in depth conversations and important cultural happenings.

It seems that the group thrives on social interaction and experiences in order for sudents to improve on their literacy compositions. Most importantly, the students are engaged, partly because their interests are being exposed and also because of the social interaction.

I agree with this thought of an individual being trapped in a single story. In one of my previous classes we watched a TED talk of a women who shared the single story of how people identifies her by. She then explained that we should not limit ourselves or other to one single story, but to encourage and look for all stories that make up an individual.

The author is really showing us the different locations and situations that literacy can be used to heal, support, and guide children.