Where Am I? As I continue to strengthen my pedagogy, I am learning more about the Science of Reading through a professional development class. I am learning what students in the early stages of reading are supposed to learn, and how to provide individual instruction to close any achievement gaps for my students.

Where Am I Going?

This goal is a long term goal. It is something that I will be working on all throughout the 2025-2026 school year. I would like to be able to close any achievement gaps in reading for my struggling readers. Learning about research based activities such as "Orthographic Mapping" and Ehris,"Phase Theory" will help me to assist my students in learning how to decode and connect letters to sounds. I also learned about ways to support my ELL students with "regularity of English and High Frequency words". There are a number of other research based strategies that I would like to try out in my classroom with my students.

How Will I Get There?

I am going to analyze the end of year data from my incoming students and start to group them based off the data. My data may shift a little when I get the students in September, as there is a regression each summer. I am also going to decide on a few research based strategies that I would like to incoperate in my classroom and start there. I will document the shifts I make as I move through the school year so that I have "what works" memorialized. I am excited to start this work.

"The more reflective you are, the more effective you are" -Hall and Simeral

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Where Am I going: I want to work on non-fiction multiple choice and I want to do more Short/Extended responses because I don’t always get a 2/2 on my responses. I find non fiction challenging because understanding what the characters problems are isn’t that easy and the multiple choice is difficult because of the difficult word meanings and morphology and character questions. I want to make more text to text connections and character connections to help me find the traits of characters.

How Will I get There?: I can achieve my goal by using my conference note book and reading more texts and find common traits within the novels or article’s characters. To help me with non fiction multiple choice questions I can use a multiple choice success criteria and a short response criteria to help me with responses. This is my reflection of the subject: Reading through out the year.

“Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is”— Andrena Sawyer

Where Am I? As a reader I think I am good at asking question about the character and their relationships, and making inferences and theories based on the character. I think I am good at these goals because I find it easy and understand it easily.

Where Am I Going? As a reader I need to work on understanding the words and phrases that the author uses in the books . I would also like to work on multiple choice questions a little more because sometimes the questions are a little challenging so I would like to get better at that.

How Will I Get There? I will get there by re-reading the sentences and using context clues to help me understand word and phrases more. Also to get better at multiple choice I will justify my answer and use process of elimination to help me get better and understand the questions more.

Where am I?

As I continue to work on how characters evolve in the novel and what caused the character to change in this specific part of the novel, I am learning to provide more evidence and detail to why they are making this change.

Where am I going?

This goal is something I want to work on next year. I also learned how to identify what words and phrases mean by using context clues or braking words apart by sound. I would like to understand more of poetry and what the main purpose is of authors rhyming words, and why the put stanzas for each paragraph.

How will I get there?

I will have to analyze the structure of poetry and think to myself why would the author do this. I will have to use my conference notebook to support my thinking, to support me with work I need help with. I will take my time and try my hardest to achieve my goal and get my work done in time.

I always believed "optimism is the faith that leads to achievement nothing could be done with hope and confidence"

Where am I? Right now as a reader I am working on what miner problems lead up to the major problem. I also right down the importance of each chapter in my book and what it was all about. I also read my book club book carful so then when I answer the questions I am not confused and can answer the questions fluently. Last I leave track of my thinking by like what I said and by righting the theme or main idea/central idea.

Where am I going? I will like to right down words or sentences that linger in my note book to then increase my vocabulary and use my morphology book more. I also want to use my conference note book more often because I have a lot of information that can help me.

How will I get there? I will achieve this by keeping my morphology on my desk to add in it. I will also take my conference note book out when I’m confused so I can look for conference that will help me.

Where Am I?

I am a level T, and I am learning to understand that different perspectives impact the texts. I am reading The Tiger Rising. I think I am good in fiction, historical fiction, and realistic fiction.

Where am I going?

As a reader I think I need to work on synthesizing information. I would also like to keep working on perspective and I think that will help with synthesizing information. I am not the best in non-fiction because it's harder to understand the problems the character's face and their problems are much more complects.

How Will I Get there?

I am going to get there by reading more non-fiction to understand those reads better. I will ask myself question and answer using contexts clues to synthesize the information in the text.

Where Am I? I was and currently still learning how characters act throughout a novel, because when we read more complex books the characters evolve and have more complex feelings and traits that can change through the novel. As I keep on reading I think I struggle with poems, plays and fiction, but I don’t struggle with informational. I think I’m a level 3 in reading because I’m strong in reading but not writing.

Where Am I Going? This goal is going to be a long term goal. It is going to be working on it from 2025 to 2026. I would like to learn how the characters face obstacles, and how it changes and impacts the novel as it will help me learn about the problems the characters faces, and how they overcome the problems.

How Will I Get There? I will pay attention to how the characters acts, using my conference notebook and listing the problems the characters faces and how it impacts the novel, as Reginald Red said “Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will.”

Where Am I? As I’m reading my book “The Great Gilly Hopkins” which is a level S, I am working on my goal which is keeping track of the minor and major problems the characters face and the solutions of those major or minor problem, and how the problems affect the novel and characters in the novel. As a reader I also figure out what figurative language means by using context clues.

Where Am I Going? Later on I would like to work on synthesizing information for the 2025-2026 school year next year when I’m in fifth grade, and I will do that by gathering important details from the novel to find the theme or central idea. I could also synthesize the of the problems and their solutions to come up with a theme for the whole novel.

How Will I Get There? One way I will work on synthesizing information, is gathering all the important information that is relevant to the novel, like gathering all the major and minor problems and solutions to the problems and trying to come up with the theme or central idea of the novel.

“Self Reflection Is Scary, But Is Needed For Growth.”

Where am I?: As I continue to grow and strengthen my knowledge, I keep learning new things from Mrs. Puccio in reading that I think know, but don’t. I have gotten all kinds of compliments from my parents for abilities in reading, such as articulation, brainstorming method and organization. My parents and Mrs. Puccio thinks I’ve come a long way since the beginning of the school year, but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal.

Where am I going?

As I slowly make my way through the school year, I slowly decide on what I want to do next for 6th grade, and the thing I want to use is my success criteria for support. I also want to learn more about conversations, so I can get better at it.

How will I get there

I’ll only use my success criteria for goals and support, maybe a little bit of help with keeping conversations going, just in case.

Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see.

Over the year of 2025 my goals have changed from understanding morphology to use interactions to develop an inference. Right now to track interactions I’ve been using a T chart that I put interactions on one side and inferences on the other and now my goal evolved from just writing inferences to making them based on turning points the blurb and more.

Where Am I Going?

I’m going to try to not just focus on one goal but multiple like synthesizing information to make a better understanding of the book. The more you grow up you start to read more books that are pretty thick like the book A Dogs Life that’s 182 pg and Resistance which is 375 pg.

How Will I Get There?

I will have section for each type of thing that can play a big part in a book like: symbolism, character change, major events, and more. So I will connect everything together to make a overall theme and I wont give up cause if I give up on my goal I give up on my self.

Where Am I?

Throughout my reading journey, my goal was always to find what challenges the characters were facing. I am a level T, and right now I'm reading The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo. And I track Rob's (the protagonist in The Tiger Rising) problems/challenges in my reading notebook.

Where Am I Going?

I think my goal suits me, but I also need to work on the morphology of words for the 2025-2026 school year. Sometimes when I'm reading, and I come across a word I don't know, and I guess the word, or what it means. I also want to work on poetry because I feel like I don't understand it that much. The rhyming gets me tripped up. And I also feel like I could use my conference notebook more.

How Will I Get There?

I am going to get there by using context clues and breaking apart the word parts. For example, the prefix, suffix, and root/base. And if I really don't know I'll look it up. For poetry I will have to analyze the rhyming words and try to understand what they mean. And I won't give up; I'll try and try until I get it.

"We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience." John Dewey

Where Am I?

I am the kind of reader who can use sign posts to sympathize ideas about the character and so I can understand them better.

Where Am I Going?

As a reader I need to work on understanding the words and phrases the author uses so I know what the meaning of the words or phrases.

How Will I Get There?

I will get there by re-reading the sentences in front and behind the word or phrase and use my context clues to figure and understand what the word/phrases the author uses.

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We do not learn from our experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.-

John Dewey

Where Am I Going?

I want to continue improving my short as well as extended responses so I can be better prepared for the ELA state test, and be able to improve my ability to answer multiple choice questions.

How will I get there?

I will improve on my short and extended responses by stop during the texts and asking myself questions about the character's so I can