Double Entry Journal #3

Describe 3 things you learned about teaching literacy development.

~One of the things that I learned about teaching literacy development was that sometimes the geographic location can cause different types of learning, such as the dialect of Appalachia. Another thing was that the teachers have to respect the dialect of the community and area mostly where the dialect does not apply to Standard English. Teachers have to adjust. Teachers are teaching the children to learn Standard English but yet not taking away their dialect and history.

Give 2 examples from your schooling experiences that reflected effective or ineffective literacy instruction for speakers of non-standard dialects.

~I cannot really think of any specific time where there was an effective or ineffective literacy instruction. The school that I went to for elem./middle was made up of a lot of the same
kind of kids both middle class and lower class. We all had to read books and do Grammar in
class and at times we had to get up in front of the class or read to the class aloud. I feel that we all talked about the same and the teachers did not really try to change the way we talked just the knowing that there were other ways to talk and explain things by word. When I got to high school things changed there were all three classes and English was harder because we were expected to say things a certain way and if we did not say it a certain way with correct grammar, it reflected on our grades-as in writing. But over all I felt that there was not really any major dialects in any of my schooling.

Explain 1 relationship between the strategies for the teaching of literacy presented in this article and Inclusive practices.

~The relationship between teaching literacy and inclusive practices is that as a teacher you have respect the students heritage and back ground. As well as the fact that as a teacher you
don’t want to push the child away from their life into something different. You
need to try and have the students use the correct English in class, but home
you cannot change. You want the students to know correct English and the proper
way to speak and write, but it is up to the student to decide whether or not
they want to us the correct way to speak.















I picked this image because it shows that the entire United States has a certain kind of dialect that teachers have to adjust to and help teacher students the correct way to speak and write. West Virginia may have a dialect that some consider horrible, but other areas might have a worse dialect. West Virginia is just put out in the public because people don't know that we are normal and have dialects like other areas, they are just what West Virginia is used to and how we have grown up and been taught to talk like. We can always learn more about Language and literacy if given a chance to succeed. We can learn and progress in the future.

Citations:
Delaney, R. (Photographer). (2000). Dialects. [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://predatorhaven.blogspot.com/2010/06/dialects-wildebeests-baby-boomers.html

Epstein, P. (2011, Sept. 15). Honoring dialect and increasing student performance in standard english. Retrieved from http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3655