Assignment 1 - ELA instruction

         ELA instruction is a guide for teaching to properly teach their students skills that are necessary in a English Language Art classroom. The outcome of these components, is a classroom full of successful readers and writers. There are five different parts to ELA instruction. First is reading, that is where the child learns to read and comprehend what he/she has read. Students learn to express what they have read and make connections.  Next come writing where the child practices their writing skills by sharing what they have learned. This component very much connects to the one before, reading, because students are challenged to channel what they have read onto a piece of paper and write what they learned. Students also learn how to do research and take note of the information they discovered. The next components in the ELA instruction is both Speaking and Listening. These two components give the students a chance to work together and share what they have learned with their classmates. In order for it to be done properly the students must learn to both speak up and express what they learned, and also be able to keep quiet and listen to what their classmates have to say. Students learn how to work together in groups, partners, or even a class as a whole. The last component is Language, where students learn the proper use of the English language, and learn correct vocabulary etc.

           I feel that the purpose of this whole system is to teach children how to express what they learned and apply it to their daily lives. Learning isn’t about doing workbooks and sitting in a desk all day, it’s about actually putting what was taught into practice, and understanding the purpose.