Shadowing Project

Shadowing Project

1. Teaching & Learning: How can you determine funds of knowledge and use it to teach them?

   • Always the first child to raise her hand to answer questions.
   • She is around her mother and father's accent at home.
   • She is very sociable and talkative with her peers.
   • She says her "r's" differently because of the accent she is around.
   • She slides her finger under the words as she reads.
   • Makes text to self connections.
   • She speaks clearly and loudly and is easy to understand.

2. Content: What is fund of knowledge and how does it affect the reading process?

   • Lauren is 7 years old.
   • Her family is from Ghana.
   • Uses expression while she reads.
   • She is a level Z reader.
   • When she makes a mistake, she will go back and try to fix it until she self corrects.
   • Her mother had just gotten back from being in Ghana for a monthe.
   • Uses meaning and visual information, but needs to use more structural information to confirm.