Blog 3

     One of the ELA standards that I am most prepared to with is the key ideas and details. It is one of the basic standards that gives the backbone for all others. If students do not understand how to understand the main idea of the topics places before them it will be difficult for them to go more in-depth with their learning through the other standards. As I am still learning new ways to become a teacher some of the standards I could still work on would be integrating the knowledge and ideas and showing students the main ideas through various formats to ensure their understanding of the material. I decided to read into the second grade tool kit for CPALMS as I am majoring in elementary education I thought it would be interesting to see what I could possibly use in the future specifically.      One of the tools that I would use in my classroom would be describing how an author uses reasons to support specific points in a text. This would be a good way to engage the students with the text and help them understand what is being said rather than memorizing the text. It is something that can start off simple and get harder with time which is a good way to teach kids and get them to think harder about certain things that they read.
      While working on the newsletter design it allowed me to use a template on word I had not had the chance to use before. I used different tools such as making a two column list and how to get this done without showing the table that was used. The hyperlink was also something new for me that I was always curious how to do. Many of the skills, such as the header and date features, would be beneficial to me as a teacher when relaying different information to the students and/or their parents.