Courtney Harvey

Mom | Future middle school teacher | Harry Potter fanatic |

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

working in groups but as of right now we can't do that. These are some questions I still have for literacy teachers who are trying their hardest to teach their kids while working with the strict guide lines they are given. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

With students coming back to the classroom after being away for nearly a year due to COVID-19, how can we look at creating a creativity inducing literary classroom? A lot of the suggestions in our book include pushing the desks together, having a shared library space and....

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

Differentiation is key to creating a classroom that fits the many students we will teach in a day. While we can't give every single student the individual attention they deserve, we can create a program/lesson that reaches as many students as possible. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

the letter to parents because it reminds parents to be patient, and gives examples on how they could help. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

I never understood why parent got frustrated with their young children's writing when they saw misspelled words and backwards letters or missing letters. Children are learning and just like any other activity, they time and practice to get it right. I really liked...

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

important skill in reading. Underlining meaningful parts and explaining them while thinking aloud gives students the skills to do it themselves without just dumping information on them. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

I feel that modeling is one of the best ways to teach students how to do anything. I know if I see something done first, I have a better understanding of how to do it myself. In classrooms that work they talk about modeling how to decode big words which is an extremely....

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

listening skills and create pictures in their mind, then ask them to communicate that image clearly and thoughtfully. Knowing how to understand those descriptive words, build a clear picture and then communicate that is a critical skill. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

According to Reading Comprehension: what every teacher needs to know, teaching reading comprehension strategies is in the top 5. I noticed that in a lot of the videos we watched for the primary grade observation I often saw comprehension strategies like previewing...

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

and visualizing. This works for younger children in developing literacy in general because often children's books have images and you can preview the text just by inferring what the story will be about with just pictures. Moving to without pictures, we ask students to use their..

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

The same students that may be confused and frustrated when they can't find what they are looking for, could also be the same students that become even more motivated to refine their search and get to what they are looking for #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

What interested me in Understanding Dispositions toward reading on the internet was that while the majority of students felt like it was easy to get lost using the internet for research, the majority of students also felt happy when they could do research projects on the net...

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

open ended questions and build on the book is an important skill #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

In literacy Ch. 8 I found a connection to how we did lit circles and how to promote group discussion. Using small groups allows students to feel more comfortable with the text, and allows you as a teacher to jump in and model deeper thinking. Being discussion director in our...

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

group, it made me think deeper about how to create discussion rather then just ask yes or no questions. I had to go back through the book to think about how the stories connected. I know younger kids won't necessarily go through all that trouble, but teaching them how to create..

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

I didn't know until today how standardized tests evaluate reading levels. It seems misleading to place a 2nd grader at a 5th grade reading level if they didn't read any 5th grade text. Why is it done this way and do they still test this way? #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

I find that especially important because access to the material and making sure that ALL your students understand how to look back, reflect and ask for help if something is confusing beneficial to everyone, including the teacher. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

Literacy Ch. 3 explains giving prompts that help them structure their response to literature. Asking for responses that make them reflect on what they learned and what might still be confusing is not only beneficial to all students but especially to ELLS #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

including context clues like ...., trying to sound it out, looking for prefixes and suffixes they know and then looking it up. I can't wait to teach my students these skills so they can eventually do it on their own. #CSUSMMiddleLevel29

[Courtney Harvey @Harvey2Teach]

This semester I have been working on a lesson plan that teaches students how to use context clues to understand unknown words they come across in text. In Ch.7 of Literacy, they say that to help students infer word meanings multiple things attribute to their understanding....