Hello, my name is Chana Feldman. My favorite thing to do is to take care of my family, which includes my husband, one and a half year old daughter and two month old daughter. I also enjoy cooking, scrapbooking, reading and talking on the phone, and I do these in my spare time. I loved teaching third grade which I did for two years in St. Louis, MO. I taught math, reading, lanauge arts, science, social studies, plus a few more subjects. Language arts was not my favorite subject when I was in school because I was not so good at it, therefore I was less confident teaching it than teaching other subjects. I am excited and a little nervous to be taking this class about literacy instruction. This is my second semester at NYIT taking online classes. What I know about teaching language arts is the way I taught it to my students: grammar rules, reading practice, writing technique, etc. I don't know anything about “new literacies” except for what I saw briefly when I did a google search – that educators need to find new ways to teach children to read because of the technologies that we use communicate.