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Citations

Tanya S. Wright and Susan B. Neuman, "Vocabulary Instruction in Commonly Used Kindergarten Core Reading Curricula," The Elementary School Journal 113, no. 3 (March 2013): 386-408.

Chanel Kit Ho Fung, "Active Child and Active Teacher: Complimentary Roles in Sustaining Child-Centered Curriculum,"(Nov. 07, 2015).

Tanya S. Wright and Amelia Wenk Gotwals, "Supporting Kindergartners’ Science Talk in the Context of an Integrated Science and Disciplinary Literacy Curriculum," The Elementary School Journal 117, no. 3 (March 2017): 513-537.

My Take Aways

Pros:

  • The curriculum provides lessons for each day, and the resources to go with it
  • Interactive
  • Extension activities for all subjects

Cons:

  • Lots of direct teaching, sitting around
  • Too much work for each day (time consuming
  • Not enough active work

Text Analysis 3

Tanya Wright and Susan Neuman also wrote an article on the extension activities that are provided within the Treasures Curriculum. They focused specifically on the science curriculum additions and they found that the activities are aligned with the NGSS for kindergarten. They found that these extension activities help support the literacy and oral language that is largely taught throughout the book. They found that students receiving this curriculum have outperformed students who have completely differing subjects. These activities help students academic vocabulary across all the subjects. "Findings indicate that with appropriate scaffolding and support, kindergartners can engage in sophisticated science talk and that integrated curriculum materials can impact young children’s science learning and science discourse."

-I agree with the article, I think combining the subjects makes for a great learning experience, and treasures offers great lesson ideas for teachers to combine the subjects.

Text Analysis 2

Text Analysis 1:

Chanel Fung writes an article which explains the importance of active teachers and children in the classroom. Using the curriculum textbook he reviews the way the lessons are set up and how much activity is actually involved in the classroom. He studied research from the last 60 years about active classrooms and their importance. The article also includes the importance of children feeling that they have ownership of whats being taught. In his findings he discovers that the Treasures curriculum does not include enough active learning.

-I agree with his research, I have found while looking through the book that many of the lessons involve direct teaching and not a ton of movement.

Two Michigan state students, Tanya Wright and Susan Neuman wrote an article reviewing core reading curricular materials which support oral vocabulary instruction in kindergarten. They studied 12 weeks of instructional materials from the Treasures curriculum. They discovered about 2 to 20 words were identified for instruction per week. "Organizing principles for word selection were unclear for 3 of the 4 curricula, and many target vocabulary words were rated as too easy or basic for school-based instruction." They came to a conclusion that the words taught in oral instruction were not aligned with the standards and felt the lessons would not increase vocabulary development.

-In my opinion I disagree, I feel the students are starting with such a small vocabulary and the words they are learning are increasing their vocabulary no matter how simple the words may seem.

Writing

Writing activities include:

-Shared Writing

-Interactive Writing

-Independent Writing

Reading

Treasures

Lessons include:

-Listening

-Independent Reading

-Shared Reading

-Comprehension

Listening

The text includes:

-Read Aloud's

-Sing Along's

-Songs/Music

-Modeling Examples

-Rhyming Activities

Oral Language

Everyday opportunities for:

  • Speaking
  • Reading Aloud
  • Listening

Here, the teacher would start with a modeled reading, then guided reading as a whole class.

Components of the Curriculum

BY. Mary Thoen

Oral language

Listening

Reading

Writing

Why Beall Choose Treasures

-My mentor teacher expressed that she does not like the schools choice of curriculum. She prefers to create her own lessons because they better align with the standards.

-The school choose this because it is used from grades K-6

-The curriculum includes many resources for teachers and high quality literature.

Treasures (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill)

This is the curriculum book used for language arts and reading at Beall Elementary school.

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