Burn After Reading

Before taking CRE-101, I have never heard about Project Read Aloud. When reading the directions about the assignment I thought this assignment did not come in such perfect timing. My seven-year old sister Ammy has a tough time reading at times. Her teacher and my parents decided to make a plan so that Ammy could get more confident reading. The plan was for us as a family to take turns reading to her before she goes to bed. When picking a partner, the first person I thought of was my sister Ammy…

In reading groups, all of my reading levels are currently working on pulling facts from an informational texts and comparing similar texts to others. When I provide homework, I encourage students who don’t understand a problem to come to the back of the classroom to get…

What caused John Boyne to write this particular book? Tip: If you don’t remember the class discussion, you can look online. (10 pts.) John Boyne had a passion for reading and writing books at a young age. He loved history and heroic adventure stories. He thought to himself what It’d be like for children at a young age to fight in World War 2. He often question himself asking if he was as brave and strong as the kids who did fight in the war. And just the few years later the book The Boy in…

Specific language impairment is a condition which makes code switching in language acquisition tremendously difficult for children. These children already display incomplete grammatical abilities in relation to older age groups with typical language. These difficulties are typically shown when interchanging their two languages which, is known as code switching, and is done within sentences. For children with both specific language impairment and bilingualism, their linguistic abilities may…

there is a lot of emphasis on how writing and reading can change lives, but more specifically in “Black Boy”. In Eurora Welty’s writing about growing up with books, she mentions her mother and how she read to her every day no matter where they were in the house. This is where her love for books really started. She describes her mother as an “expressive reader” (Welty 28) and talks about how you can really understand how she is feeling when she is reading and you can hear her opinions in her…

Knoblauch’s article talks about four different types of literacy that are seen throughout history: functional, cultural, personal-growth and critical. Although these are the literacies Knoblauch discusses, he lets the reader know that there are a variety of definitions that not mentioned in his article. The message Knoblauch tries to send the audience is to know that people with power as in educators or professionals are the ones worthy enough to categorize where literate or illiterate people…

language arts writing has to be my strongest suit. While holding a bigger place in my heart than reading. As a kid I loved to look outside during the holiday seasons watching all the different aspects of life change from summer to fall, and then you’d wake up to the first frost which is always my favorite part of the year cause in more times than not where you have frost, you have snow to follow not long after. During all this change I would write poems and short stories about them and even draw…

Functional Capacities: Susan is able to complete all basic activities of daily living with independence. She is able to ambulate across all surfaces without the utilization of an assistive device. Susan displays significant weakness in the area of reading, reading comprehension, written expression, organization, recall, and time management. Functional Limitations and Potential Assistive/Rehabilitation Technology Solutions: Susan has a, LG smart phone with 16GB of memory and cannot accept an…

Jack Prelutsky's poem, Why Do I Have to Clean My Room, is about a child that believes his bedroom does not need to be cleaned. The child wants to play, instead of cleaning his room. The child’s room is described when he lists the messes in his room and explains why they are not an issue. He expresses that the clutter is not a distraction to him. The narrator questions the necessity of cleanliness because, to him, his room looks fine. The decisions of individuals are impacted by the perspective…

know why we sometimes can’t remember these key events in our lives but I do remember one thing: When I first learned to read. My mom didn't like reading as well as my dad, cousins, and grandma unless you count her daily bible scriptures she read. Despite the fact that my mom didn’t enjoy reading she was the one to motivate me to learn to read. Reading wasn’t considered a hobby or something you do leisurely where I grew up as a kid. Kids, teens, and adults in my community never really read.…