Practicum and Literature-What inspired my beliefs and teaching?

I noticed at my first Practicum, the teacher modeled and believed that students should love to read. The way she read books aloud to students showed her interest in various types of books. The students sometimes seemed restless but most of the time they were engaged when she read aloud, during reader's theater, and singing songs. The librarian complimented my teachers efforts in the middle of the year, that the students interest in reading have increased very much. They discussed their readings, asked for more resources(books, videos, intellectual websites etc) I talked to her about it.she said that she never send books home as homework and never use reading as a punishment or as a time out.
In class we had the same kind of discussion during our triple-entry notebooks, when we read about the developing the love of reading.we discussed importance of the involvement parents and the recognition that children start to develop language in infancy however love of reading is noticed by the children when they can comprehend what they are reading or what others are reading to them. Parents and teachers can work together to model, share and show the joy that is spread by reading. The following story is One of the examples of a student love reading at my first year Practicum, she introduced me to this book and I was amazed at how much she loved it. She was going through friendship issues in class and this book helped her express her feelings to her friends. This book is about sharing, courtesy, happiness on simplicity and I think child understands all of that, may not be able to express it but the right book, poem, song will do that for Them.





We talked about making connections and making use of books in everyday learning so the students recognize books as one of the resources they can use if they are curious about something.