Double Journal entry #10

1. What are the features of the forms of language that are spoken in a home environment that align with academic varieties of language? These types of languages range from everyday activities. Parents telling their kids a story, kids asking a question and the parents answering it, and kids watching or hearing a conversation by adults are a couple examples.

2. What are the features of Leona's specialized form of language?  Leona uses parallel lines in her story, she broke down her story into stanzas, she uses her vernacular in the wording of the story (she wrote it exactly how she would say it.)The author states that this is most likely a product of her home life or "social group”

3. Why is Leona's specialized form of language not accepted in school? Gee studied the problems that people who grow up in a struggling economic situation or a minority. These students seem to struggle more than the average student. Gee also states, "The test scores were going up at a time that integration was also increasing."

4. Explain the contradiction between the research conducted by Snow et al. (1998) and the recommendations made by Snow et al. (1998).  Belonging to a group like this can help a student succeed or can cause a student to fail. If a student does not feel like he or she belongs, the student will shell up and not feel comfortable to work or participate. This can cause a student to resent school and not be successful.

5. What other factors besides early skills training will make or break good readers? Making the student feel that they belong will help the student succeed. This will help them more than in just reading, it will help them in growing socially also. Making the student want to read is also important. This means choosing the material that the students will enjoy and also making reading fun.

6. Why do some children fail to identify with, or find alienating, the "ways with words" taught in school?  Students can make the connection between what they have learned at home to what they are being taught at school. Also students are not being taught like they should. Instruction can be a problem when inclusive practices are not present.