Blog Assignment #8

Blog assignment #8: How prepared do you feel in effectively teaching your students in reading?  Is this one of your strengths?  A weakness?

Have you started to plan to the Common Core Standards?  If you have, how is that going?  If you haven’t, why not?  What support do you need? 

Before I began this program I taught Language Arts for 10 years.  Because of that, I am familiar with a lot of teaching methods and strategies when it comes to teaching reading and writing. Still, every student is different and it can still be challenging to pick the best ways to go about reading a text for a student.  Overall, I am confident in my ability to teach reading.

I always use the CCSS to teach reading, writing, and discussion.  I find it to be a great support in breaking down exactly what I am asking students to do.