ELA/ELD Reflective Statement

To teach ELA/ELD, teachers must be able to integrate ELD material into

their ELA lessons. Teachers must know the circles of implementation and
how to use them in the classroom. They must have strategies for supporting
learner engagement with texts and other resources. Teachers must scaffold
material so that students have a solid understanding of material that helps
students learn new material.
The class that has prepared me the most to teach ELA is English 310:
Study of Language. This class showed me how language is created and used
by children at a young age. The standards for ELA tell teachers that they
must interact with English in a meaningful way. These ways include
collaborating, interpreting, and producing language. We did all of these
things in English 310. Using what I learned, I feel I will be able to teach
students to understand and express themselves using language.
My artifact is my midterm exam for English 310. I chose this artifact
because the content from this class connects to the ELA framework. This
class covered different points from Part II: Learning About How English Works
from the framework. This section covers understanding text structure and
organization, using verbs and nouns to expand ideas provide more detail.
This shows my understanding of language and sentence structure that will
be used in the classroom.