RESPONSE TO PROMPT 3

A teacher could be responsive to the linguistic, ethnic and sociocultural characteristics of the students by showing them, explaining, demonstrating and accepting multiple ways to teach, learn and respond to something like a test or a question. Exactly like Eddy said, because he and I both are reading buddies, children first learn what letters make what sounds and then using those sounds to form words. The next thing is to recognize sight words but being able to read them when they see the word, know the word when someone spells it, be able to spell a word when you tell them what the word is, and also be able to make a sentence with that word. A child may not know how to read the word yet but if you isolate the sounds they may be able to recognize what the word is, what it means and how to use it in a sentence. Some children that I tutor need to see pictures of what a word it, some need to cover certain letters to sound out the word, some students get confused when seeing something and they prefer just to close their eyes and listen. When the teacher in my classroom was giving a test, some students were covering their ears and just reading the test on their own, and some had to listen to the teacher give her own version of the mathematical "story" or equation and some students just watched her point to some things on the page. Just like students are different learners in high school and college, there are different learners in elementary schools as well. Some are visual, some learn better but listening, and some learn better when doing things on their own like forming a sentence or being able to tell someone what a word means to helping someone else get the answer. I know that when I study for tests I remember things a lot easier when I write them down over and over, or repeat them over and over. Sometimes I have to write things in my own words too. Some students I tutor, I tell to close their eyes and just listen so they don't get distracted but other things in the classroom and some students can just look at me or the word directly while listening to what I and the other children have to say. I have found that one thing that always works best, are educational games!!! Can they ever have a negative impact on children?