Reading

Mary is a fifth grade student who is having troubles with reading. Mary’s teacher has indicated that Mary has been having difficulties with keeping pace with the other students while reading, completing homework and classroom assignments, and with reading comprehension. Mary’s teacher has made note that Mary is a very pleasant student who is good with following directions and gets along well with other classmates. Mary is having difficulty in reading, writing, social studies, and science. Currently Mary is performing below her classmates in reading reading fluency and reading comprehension. The teacher began noticing problems in the fall semester so the goal will be for Mary to improve by the spring semester. Currently Mary is performing on…

How much someone is able to accomplish in the world boils down to how good their reading and comprehension skills are. Reading is important because helps with mental simulation, exercises the brain and develops empathy. Firstly, reading aids mental stimulation. Through a study done by a neuroscientist named Stanislas Dehaene, he showed that reading has an extensive impact on the brain. Dehaene took a sample of people and split them into three groups. The first group were people that learned to…

“This is your child’s brain on reading” by Carina Storrs. This article suggests that the brain networks involved in reading and listening to stories develop early. Kids who read less and have less exposure to books have less early brain development as suggested in this article. Before this study researcher found that children who were exposed to books at a young age excelled at many levels as they got older, stated by Dr. Barry Zuckerman professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of…

Reading Improvement Research Question Does reading to my child help to improve his reading ability? Operationalization Problem Research exists for a variety of reasons, some political and some for educational purposes. For me, it was necessary to distinguish how I could assist my son, Austin, with his education. My son suffers with a disability and has an Individual Education Plan (IEP) in place. This means my son requires extra attention in certain areas similar to reading and math. Austin…

As educators, we understand the value of reading aloud. It provides students with opportunities to increase their own fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. However, for some students it’s a terrifying event. Flash back to my third grade reading group. I was sitting next to my teacher. She had called on me to read aloud to the group. I began reading, but just I started several students (not in our group) were causing problems in the class. I continued to read and finished my passage.…

Academic Review Reading Fluency Daniel’s reading fluency at roughly a fourth grade level. He is currently being progress monitored at a fourth grade level as his AIMSweb fall benchmark score placed him below the 10th percentile. After reading seven fourth grade passages this year, Daniel has averaged 83 WRC (words read correctly) with 8 errors. This score would put him in the 25th percentile compared to fourth grade students attending Robinson School. He has read as many as 106 WRC and as few…

the learner begins to read the teacher notices that the learner is reading very slow and word for word. The leaner is using their decoding strategies as they read to read unfamiliar words. When the learner finishes the teacher begins to ask the learner different questions about the book. The learner looks at the teacher and does not answer the question. The teacher tries to ask the learner another question and the learner is able to give a response but…

Hofstadter-Duke, K., & Daly, E. (2011). Improving oral reading fluency with a peer-mediated intervention. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 44(3), 641-646. doi:10.1901/jaba.2011.44-641 Hofstadter-Duke and Daly (2011) studied the effects of a peer-delivered reading intervention program designed to increase oral reading fluency in first grade students referred for at risk reading fluency. The purpose of this empirical research was to conduct an experiment to examine the effects of a…

Reading and writing go hand in hand. Without the ability to read, one in not capable to write if comprehension does not come in play. Personally, reading and writing has significantly impacted my life because not only does reading and writing help one succeed in school, are tools for communicating, but a way to boost imagination and creativity. From preschool to college reading and writing has taken me on a beautiful journey, despite all the different paths. Being from Brazil the poverty and…

with others and her interest in reading with her father, Atticus. Scout takes every opportunity to read with her father to further enhance her knowledge even when her father believes that the book is not appropriate for her. “Whatcha readin’?” I asked. Atticus turned the book over. “Something of Jem’s. Called The Gray Ghost.” “Read it out loud, please, Atticus. It’s real scary.” “No,” he said. “You’ve had enough scaring for a while. This is too-” “Atticus, I wasn’t scared.” (Lee 375). In this…