Final Synthesis Blog
Before this class, I never really considered literacy and developing literacy skills in the classroom. I thought literacy and reading was covered in language arts, and in classes that were science, math, and social studies content was covered. I thought this because it was the experience I had from as early as I can remember in school to fairly recently, actually. I don’t even recall hearing or learning about things like formative assessment until late in undergrad. The two activities that were probably most influential to my developing understanding of literacy instruction and skills in content area classes were think alouds and the book club. I had some prior knowledge of think alouds and had read research of them being implemented more and more into the classroom during my time in educational psychology, but I had never witnessed a think aloud until this semester. The reason I say think alouds were real...
