Week 3 Assignment #1

Part 1: 
The essential components of shared activity can engage students by allowing them to participate in learning the material first-hand as opposed to just sitting on the sidelines and observing what the teacher saying/doing.

Ms Perez helps improve children's problem solving skills through what she herself described as an "informal systematic way" of  meeting the child halfway in the pronunciation of words. This was done in the exercise where Ms. Perez began sounding out the words for one of her students who had difficulty pronouncing them.

The different ways that shared reading can be used to promote literacy can be through teacher/student inspiration and surprisingly also through peer competition. Some kids are naturally competitive by nature and by seeing one or two of their peers ahead of the pack could spark them to want to know the material at the kind of speed their peers are learning it from. I personally didn't witness too much competitive behavior in the video but from my personal experience observing child interaction in school  (along with my own memories as a child), I know this kind of behavior has a tendency to go on in the classroom.

Part 2:
Ms Perez feels it is important for students to verbalize their strategies because it creates a healthy outlet for them to express themselves and clearly verbalize what they are thinking.

One thing I particularly noticed about how Ms Perez helps her students build meaning through text was that she simply provided them with exercises that contained incomplete sentences and left it up to the kids to complete on their own. This is the kind of breathing room that provides a sure angle for them to be expressively creative in their work.

Part 3:
Ms. Perez organizes her classroom to support a wide range of learners by getting all of her students to participate in her common-goal activities

Reading and writing are connected to classroom related activities because the teacher makes it a point to incorporate both in the lesson as a sure-fire way for students to understand the importance of both reading and writing when communicating in the English language

Part 4:
Ms. Perez uses ongoing individual assessment to guide her instruction by being able to properly gauge a child's progress.

The class profile can be used to help group students and differentiate instruction by once again gauging the amount of exercises that go on while class is in session

An ongoing assessment  can be integrated into your own classroom practice by giving kids the same amount of work to determine where I as a teacher may need to group them in later on (If I even have to at all depending on the results)