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While doing my observation, I observed a three year old teacher that has been teaching for four years and has her BA in early childhood education. In her class, she was allowing the children to have center time and one of the centers was library and another a writing center. The children in the library really didn't have a great deal of books to chose from, but they took the books that were there and tried to read them to each other. The children in the writing are were using creative writing, which means that they were not sure of the spelling of the words, but spelled them to the best of their ability.

I also observed a four year old class where the teacher was going over sight words that the children would be hearing in the story that she would be soon reading to them. The children for the most part were well behaved and pay attention to their teacher eager for her to begin reading the story. A she read the story, she stop to show the children every page and allowed them to talk about what was going on on the pages. It was as though the children had been waiting all day for story time because this was a book that they all wanted her to read. At the end of the story the class had and discussion about what happened first second third, and at the end of the story. It was great to see how the children were so involved in what was going on and how well they were doing.

My observation showed me that not only is it necessary for children to build on their literacy skill, majority of them enjoy reading and learning to write. Al thought they may not understand the importance of what they are learning, just to be able to have a classroom of children that are eager to listen and become involve in the stories being read to them is a great sight to see. Knowing that there are some teachers that really care about teaching their children to read and helping them to understand the concept of how a book is put together brings tears to my eyes because it doesn't happen every where and I know this because I left a daycare that my son attended because they didn't do any of these things.

The strengths of these professional are their desire to teach and to reach every student that they come in contact with when it comes to teaching them to read and write. The challenges is getting some of their parents to become more involved in what their children are learning and to be supportive and helping them to become fluent readers.

I think that this observation should me that it is important as educator that we teach children literacy at an early age. I think that the earlier we begin reading to children and allowing them to read to us whether it is really reading or beginning reading , it makes a difference in each child's future.

One thing that I want to research in my paper is the importance for parents to become involved with literacy at home. I understand that as parents, we become overwhelmed with work and other things around the house, but making and taking the time to help our children with their home work and reading to our young is very important.