C4T #2

The teacher's blog I was chosen to this week was Andrea Hernandez. Her blog Authentic Literature talk about her "parent connect sessions" every month. These sessions are where a small but dedicated group of parents joined us to discuss a variety of topics related to changes in learning and how their school would respond to those changes. Hernandez says that this "promotes initiatives, as that small group of parents acted as ambassadors spreading vital positivity and understanding throughout the parent community." This really opens up a great opportunity to be the best because of the parent's and teacher's opinions.

Andrea Hernandez's next blog, A Teacher's Ode to Read-Alouds. First of all, Hernandez believes that reading aloud is a vital tool for teaching anything and everything about reading. Reading out loud offers great opportunities to discuss vocabulary strategies! Vocabulary strategies used in the classrooms are things like the word wall. The word wall is where student's pick a word from the read aloud, that they might not know, and try to find a synonym of the word that they do know. Reading aloud also gives the opportunity for assignments afterwards, such as written responses and discussion. I loved reading this blog because I have never had this point of view on reading aloud in the classroom. It's a great perspective and has really inspired me to use this in my future classroom. Along with every blog post from Andrea Hernandez, they have all inspired me to use her ideas in my classroom!