Critique Of A Common Sense Study

Improved Essays
Maricela Gomez GTIS 7 Reading has a vital importance in a child’s life. There are many things that could predict a student’s achievement and one of those include the student’s reading comprehension. However, as a fragile organ, reading could be affected by outer occurrences that could set a child on an unfavorable path. Students characterize themselves as readers throughout elementary, which helps them flourish as members of society. It is important to keep students that mentality that self-identifies as readers.
Reading is influenced by many external forces which students, specifically elementary students, have no control over. “For example, various studies have found that the child’s gender, race, family income, and parents’ level of education all are related to how much a child
…show more content…
In the research brief, “Children, Teens, and Reading” it explains that in the Common Sense study which displayed the percentage of daily readers among eight year olds, showed a 15 percentage point difference between the high and low income groups.(Rideout 17) Proportionally the reading comprehension levels

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

    • 896 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Other studies have shown that there can be a negative impact when the teacher or caregiver uses strategies that are less than ideal. It is not enough to just read with your child. How you interact with them as you read is important. Do they like you to read to them? What conversations do you have with your child as you read?…

    • 896 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Veldt Reflection

    • 726 Words
    • 3 Pages

    During this past week I worked with David, a freshman in high school. David has a positive attitude about reading, but doesn’t always read for pleasure. When he does read, it’s usually for his school assignments or during the summer. David said he is currently reading the Odyssey in school, but he is having a very difficult time understanding it. He expressed that he likes to read science fiction short stories or horror books…

    • 726 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Learning to read is a skill many can obtain quickly or not so well. Myself, on the other hand was one of the many children who struggled with not only the thought of reading, but the actual process of reading not only a book, but sentences, word and sounding out words. Struggling through elementary with reading problems and on and off again help made it seem even worse. Going into kindergarten was intimidating, with all the bright colored posters with words even I couldn’t read. Having to be assigned seats next to strangers who soon would become my closest friends.…

    • 983 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “We are but parts of a whole, and therefore there must exist a power somewhere to preside, and preserve the connexion due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament; and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another” (Dickinson). John Dickinson was a patriot until 1776, when he started to question if the colonists really needed to break away from England. He supported colonial rights, but did not support independence from Britain. Dickinson was one out of many that did not want to separate from England in the 1760s and 1770s.…

    • 1447 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Each and every person conceptualizes reading in a different way. In their article “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” Christina Haas and Linda Flower examine the different ways readers, mainly students, read a text and break it down for post read analysis. They believe that every student finds different meaning in every text they read as they show when they state, “There is a growing consensus in our field that reading should be thought of as a constructive rather than as a receptive process: that “meaning” does not exist in a text but in readers and the representations they build” (167). This shows that they do not share the same ideas about reading that many K-12 institutions throughout the united states do considering…

    • 1821 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Mark Edmundson's Analysis

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages

    He does not want people to criticize reading, but it is still a part of the education system, and that it would be extremely hard to change. Teaching to add a critical lens when reading is essential in schools. The teachers influence on a young student’s growth is key, because they are now able to share different perspectives based on the critical lens concept they are…

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Everyone is a reader… Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet.” I remember how I used to like playing with my electric car or bike and especially caring about collecting the hot wheels cars collection. Like any child at this age, all he cares about is jumping around on sofas, running through doors and breaking stuff and walking on it. But here comes the dream breakers who are our literacy sponsors.…

    • 493 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Case Study EDU 438 Literacy Assessment, Diagnosis, and Instruction Kaila Huizinga Introduction The purpose of this case study was to fulfill the requirements of EDU 438. This project was designed to help me make observations on one particular student and make instructional decisions as time went on. During this case study I tutored one child, assessing her reading strengths and weaknesses. I provided materials and lesson plans that helped build on her strengths and help her with her weaknesses.…

    • 346 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Carina Scorrs Evaluation

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Miriam Granados Professor McGowan- Romero English 1301 October 8, 2017 Evaluation In the article released by CNN “This is Your Childs Brain on Reading” written by Carina Storrs the writer speaks about a study taken stating how reading to children at an early age can improve children’s brain’s. Storrs believes reading to children as young as infants will provide boundless benefits especially academically. A study taken on “children ages 3 to 5 who underwent brain scans called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while listening to a pre-recorded story (lines 5-7)”, reveal regions of the brain that activated as they listened and understood.…

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Reading is an important aspect of life and it will follow students through life. Examining and analyzing different elements of stories will provide students tools that help students understand more complex books. This will be the foundation of children's knowledge, which they will use in years to come. Being able to identify elements in stories will allow students to understand books at a deeper meaning. So, when children get into high school they will be able to understand books like Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter, and The Great Gatsby.…

    • 205 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    During the tenth chapter, Sampson gets pressured to do drugs. He was celebrating his birthday with his friends, when they asked if he wanted drugs. Sampson’s friends were all smoking cocaine and pressured him to do the same. He refused, however his friends didn’t accept his answer. Before the situation became worse, Sampson departed the car knowing that he made the right decision.…

    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This piece of evidence is an edTPA Planning Commentary and my Practicum Reading Conference reports. These artifacts were created based on two kindergarten learners, focusing on reading, during my practicum time (10+ hours) completed at St. Stand’s Elementary School (a Stevens Point parochial school). I used Boushey and Moser’s 2009 Reading Conference Form to document my student’s reading behaviors, progress, and needs, which I noticed during our meeting times. After conducting several oral reading processes, I noted that both student’s central focus should be automaticity and accuracy. The edTPA Planning Commentary and Reading Conference reports were written and adapted to meet the assignment requirements for my Methods and Materials for Teaching…

    • 354 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are three novels that had an argument about their experiences dealing with education. Those three novels were “Kenyon Commencement Address” by David Foster Wallace, “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt, and “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s” by Brent Staples. These authors had their own opinions or experiences with education that they didn’t agree with. David Foster Wallace believes a person tries to adjust their natural settings and alter the selfish thoughts they have, they can be considered as more adjusted individual`s, John Holt believes that when you are reading it should always be book that appeals to you the most, and Brent Staples argues about how the professors should not let the students take advantage of them. Although all the novels were interesting and you could really relate to them, there was only one novel that I could relate to the most, which was Brent Staples novel, people witness professors trying to avoid negative feedbacks from students.…

    • 756 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    YA Interview Assignment

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages

    For the YA Interview assignment, I chose to interview one of my mom’s coworker’s sons. He is twelve years old and attends the 6th grade at Kinder Middle School. Something I learned during this interview about this student was that he is very passionate about reading and enjoys doing it rather than looking at reading to be more like a chore. Whenever I asked him if reading was something he enjoyed doing he responded with “Yes, I enjoy reading. Something else that I also enjoy about reading are the visual images I am able to make when I read a story.”…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Lexile Level Essay

    • 1526 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The general understanding of reading speed is that the speed is determined mainly by two factors; how fast an individual’s eyes can move and how fast their brain can comprehend the information (Collins Dictionary, 2016). If an individual is forced to move their eye faster along with the words on a page or screen, such as that with a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) software, will it cause them to read faster without largely reducing their overall comprehension of the material? One major measure of reading ability is the Lexile Level. This is available for most books and articles and available by all major standardized tests (GMU, 2012).…

    • 1526 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays