Blog Post #7

The evidence of the standards being addressed in Service Learning is: 

Reading: Literature Standard 7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).  My Service Learning Teacher has the children tell her about the story they read.

Reading: Literature Standard 10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.  The Students have stations.  One of the stations is group reading.

Reading: Foundational Skills Standard 1: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.

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	a. Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

b. Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.

c. Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

d. Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.  The Students are taught how books are read, left to right.  They use finger spaces to separate their words when writing, the students have sight words they learn about.  They are taught upper and lower case letters. This is just a few core standards I observed. I also observed Physical Activity, Math and Science. The subject matters have approximately the same amount of time.

Core Standards and Standardize testing are both a good thing.  My Service Learning Teacher strives to teach her students the core standards.  It gives her guidance on what needs to be taught.  She can plan her lessons with the cores in mind.  

No child left behind helps make sure that all students are where they need to be or close and they all have the opportunity to succeed and receive an education.  She strives to make sure her students are getting concepts and works harder and revises the material to what her students need.