Blog Journal #4

  LAFS.5.RL.3.7 is a 5th-grade standard that aims to implement multimedia and visual elements into the classroom like Google Slides, PowerPoint, eBooks, or even creating online posters. By incorporating this practice to students, they can see how platforms like those can provide an interactive outlook on texts like books, poems, or tales. As a teacher, I would feel prepared to implement this in my classroom. Even now, I think using PowerPoint or interactive posters significantly heightens an audience's response to what is being shown with eye-catching graphics and colors, in this case, for a novel. For example, by seeing ClipArt's of a dragon on a presentation, the students would correlate the text with fantastical elements and be more open to this piece of fiction, rather than if a book is placed in front of them. Visual presentations are great for audience interaction. 

Sticking with the 5th grade, I chose a standard for English/Language Arts: ELA.K12.EE.1.1. This standard promotes citing evidence to explain and justify reasoning. This standard seemed important to me due to how as a college student now, knowing how to cite evidence that you use in your work is one of the most important elements of an essay. As I looked through the lesson plans, teaching ideas, and worksheets offered for this standard, there was a lot more historical content than I was expecting. Of course, it makes sense since the evidence is basically history written down but it was interesting to see since this was for the English section and I saw titles ranging from "Who Stole Helen Keller?" to "American Girls Aren't Radical Anymore." The resources available felt ahead of their time for 5th-grade students and leaned more toward Social Studies than anything. 

An important Internet searching skill that a teacher should utilize is the method of using "+" between their words for more accurate searching. For example, "5th+grade+english+lesson+plans". By using this type of method, it allows for search results to be more specific to what you asked for, optimizing the most of the search engine. Additionally, another skill I like to use is searching using specific terms. A search that says "child+blue+art+smock+handprints+" is more likely to get specific results than "art+smock".