“There are six fundamental components that constitute a comprehensive “diet” for early literacy learning and instruction(Invernizzi, 2002): 1. Oral language, concepts, and vocabulary 2. Phonological awareness 3. Alphabet knowledge (PA) 4. Letter-sound knowledge 5. Concepts about print(CAP) 6. Concept of word in text(COW-T)”(Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, & Johnston, 1996, 100).When creating the lesson I considered these six different components and tried to make them…
Friday, November 4, 2016, from 9:00A.M. – 11:00A.M. I was granted the opportunity to observe “Rosemary’s Daycare and Learning Center.” Rosemary’s Daycare and Learning Center is located on 109 Windsor Street in Belzoni, MS under the director of Ms. Rosemary Williams. Ms. Williams founded her daycare and learning center in 2006 and she now holds a capacity of 38 children. Rosemary’s’ Daycare and Leaning Center is large-sized building well enough for 38 students, Ms. Williams, and her staff. This…
As many teachers search for new strategies and interventions to address the lack of fluency within their reading programs, Repeated Reading (RR) appears to be a topic of curiosity. RR is an evident based strategy designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension through the development of automatic word processing and contextualized linguistic effect (Winter, 2007). Similar to the text features on a cell phone, automatic word processing is the ability to detect and comprehend a word…
“Totally like whatever, you know?” So like when I talk to kids my age, they just all like never seem to know what they are talking about anymore, you know? We have all at one time met or talked to someone that talks like my example above; it’s hard to make sense of what they are saying and they seem like they are unsure of what they are talking about. In the poem, “ Totally like whatever, you know,” author Taylor Mali says, “ In case hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like…
continuously are being left unopened. With that being said, they all just get kind of brushed off. Everyone is off being busy with their own life, leaving no time left to appreciate the little gifts that they are blessed with in the first place. “Alphabet” by Heather Crickenberger persuades the reader to stop and play close attention to the world, or else everything would be meaningless. Even though there is nothing that should be viewed as “unimportant”, that does not change the fact that…
Phonics is the method of teaching a person to read by putting sounds with letters or a group of sounds from the alphabet together. Phonics has many strategies to help students with literacy in the classroom. The following three phonics strategies will form the foundation that students need to read and communicate properly. Those strategies are letter blending, word sort, and alphabet matching. Letter Blending Letter blending is the skill combining sounds together to form words. In the…
Lesson Elements Observations/Notes Learning Objective • Group 1 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 85% of the letter names correctly. o When the student is shown 25 sight word flashcards, the student will be able to identify at least 80% of the words correctly. • Group 2 o When given a list of 26 upper-case and 28 lower-case letters, the student will be able to identify at least 90% of the letter names correctly. o When…
In the selected article from his book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”, Nicholas G. Carr explains to his readers how reading & writing came to be, it 's effects on the brain, and what both Plato and Socrates thought about the subjects (Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains). According to Carr, writing began in the year 8000 BC, when people would use small clay tokens that were engraved with symbols as a way to keep track of livestock and goods…
Alphabet Energy Matt Scullin is the PhD student in UC Berkeley and he has high interests in thermoelectric technology. In his academic career, he found that the traditional way of power generating wastes about 60% energy. While with the thermoelectric technology people can generate electricity from wasted heat and it can improve efficiency in 10% to 25%. By using his own technology, Matt started a company called alphabet energy and producing superior thermoelectric device. He narrowed his…
that his expertise is on heritage and biodiversity, though he has written various travel books about Jordan, Israel, France, Portugal, and Peru among other destinations.The selection we read for class today is an excerpt from his book “The Animated Alphabet”, published in 1997. Demeude begins the chapter with a history of alphabetic writing and then of decorated letters, more specifically, the decorated initial. He deals with the picture/writing dichotomy(?) Elkins writes about by quoting…