Inquiry 3

       Because the school i'm at uses the reading street program i was expected to use it. I would have liked to create my own lessons. i have found that the reading street program is not very successful in teaching students because there is no application to what they are learning.
       Planing a unit based off of reading street is very easy. The whole program is scripted so all i had to do was arrange my unit in the sequence that the reading teacher wanted. As we talked about in class though, just because someone has lesson plans it doesn't make them a teacher. You don't need to be a teacher to read from the reading street book.
       the obstacles that i faced were time. everyday i wanted to do more with the kids because it is a lot of information thrown at them/ i wanted to do an application of something they learned but there was no time. To overcome this i started a class book in the homeroom so as we read we can go over some of the things they learned.
    The dilemmas i faced were short classes and a weird schedule. It was around Halloween so my lessons were broken up and ultimately less effective.
     I think the most successful thing i did was connect some of the material from reading class back into the homeroom. before my lessons there was a huge disconnect between the two. with students that means missing work and bad grades. i helped bridge the gap.