Notes from the teaching practice

source: https://www.participatelearning.com/blog/world-literacy-day-build-love-for-reading-and-writing/ During my practice this year, I’ve been observing mostly 3rd and 4th graders. Throughout those few weeks, I’ve seen different topics and subjects. I witnessed different stages of the units, including introduction of new units, revision of vocabulary and grammar structures, revision to the test and writing short tests. 4th graders have Literacy classes twice a week, where they focus specifically on language-related skills and working with different texts. Younger students acquire them during English classes they have every day. Depending on the age groups, goals of the lessons were very different. WIth younger students, the teacher focused more on fluency in spoken word , and only then on practising writing. With older students, she would spend more time on accuracy in writing , omitting spelling and grammatical mistakes. In the context of literacy, there was enough time spent on ora