Journal 5

After watching the videos on Language and Reading, how does this information impact you as a teacher?

As a teacher I believe that children should to acquire their language at home.  Parents should read to them daily so that they can build that foundation of language.  Talking to their child and having a conversation will help the child learn new words.  These activities are done on a daily basis at home so that when the children are ready to start school, they will already be comfortable speaking with their peers and adults including their teacher.  If at any time the teacher suspects that there could be a speech delay problem she/he need to schedule a parent conference with the parents to discuss outside resources and getting the child tested to see if the child will qualify for a special educator.  The same goes with reading, the child needs to have a solid foundation of language in order to be good readers.
 There are many speech delay problems that can occur such as having difficulties in the classroom with understanding oral directions, vocabulary kills, using complete sentences and or correct grammar, completing their homework assignments, in class assignments and can become easily frustrated.  As the teacher, I should be made aware of this problems and be able to prepare lesson plans in which I can introduce my students to phonemic awareness, create games in which my students can benefit from learning and grasping the language by sounding out various sounds words make.  Once this is accomplished then I can begin to introduce and teach reading