Access to Literacy Class

Day 6 Class Presentations Name of Presenter Notes on Presentation Christine MacKenzie Student : She did her AT on a grade 3 student, strong personally and likes to be heard. She struggles to regulate her emotions with her peers. Likes to tell new adults what is supposed to happen. Struggles with organization and wants to please adults she knows. She had strength in reading with comprehension and fluency and all math areas and expressive language and listen comprehension, while she had challenges with fine motor, writing spelling and organization of her writing.   She can read her own writing but struggles with organization and spelling and grammar. Christine made the paper larger (11x17) for her graphic organizer so she could make her words fit. There are issues with her pencil grip. Why Lily: She can verbally tell stories in great detail when speaking and can clearly speak and a wide vocabulary. She is sta...

Day 5 – Today I was feeling a little less stressed entering the classroom. I had worked on my blog this past week: watching videos; playing with the blog; and getting a little help from my computer genius brother who writes code for a living. It was interesting sitting down with him and learning about the blog because everything about computers comes second nature to him. Just e was a cute example (remember we are brother and sister so there is a bit of banter between us) – he told me to select text from the Microsoft Word document I had written. I proceeded to go to the top left corner of the screen and hit the select drop down arrow and clicked select all. He looked at me with this grin on his face and said what are you doing? I said selecting the text. He said, do that again and I’m going to punch you in the face (remember we are brother and sister). I was like what? He says hit the control key and A. So by the end of the evening of learning all the different things my blog c...