The Reading Process

I have learned that literacy can be incorporated into every kind of classroom. My goal is to become a physical education teacher and I was unsure how literacy could be applicable to my classroom, but I've come to a more clear understanding. Literacy can be taught through activities, tasks, apprenticeship to students, models, practice,and coaching. I can read an article to my students while they are warming up or I can assign take-home reading that co insides with what we are learning about in class. Exit slips are a great way to measure student's learning. If the lesson pertains to basketball, I can ask students to write down three rules related to offensive play. An answer can be about lane violations, double dribbling, traveling, or fouling among many other rules. Posters lining the wall with quotes, rules, or key words can also help enrich a student's literacy. Hopefully, in my gym I will have a chalk board where I can write a different inspirational quote every day for the students to read. Peer evaluations can also be used for literacy purposes. An example might be that the students have to count how many reps their partner does and then write down the number. Overall, I have learned that it is possible to incorporate literacy into a physical education classroom without much difficulty.