Cold reading

Students’ who lack prior knowledge often have trouble and/or are not successful understanding (comprehending) text. According to Abdelaal, Sase and Saleh (2014), it is important to “activate the correct prior knowledge to make the reading task easier for readers” (Abdelaal, Sase, & Saleh, 2014, p. 126). In the story, My Itty-Bitty Bio: Maya Angelou, students’ will need to have quite a bit of world and literacy knowledge to comprehend this text. Students’ will need to be familiar…

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. My main goal was to have the student gain more confident and become a more established reader. “Lacie”…

learned to read is kind of difficult especially starting at very young age. I do remember my grandmother telling me that my reading skills were very good compared to others who started out like I did. When my siblings heard about how good my reading skills were, they encouraged me to read more books so I could get more practice. Since I was always around my grandmother, reading had become interesting and I somehow found myself wanting to read every chance I got. Learning how to read was…

Throughout the novel, Scout is seen as an intelligent character which is particularly demonstrated in her knowledge, conversation 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…

Rhetorical Reading is grasping content, as well as taking a gander at content in the authors' point of view. Rhetorical reading requires rhetorical analysis in order to understand where the author is coming from. In other words to make a decision on the authors credibility. Rhetorical analysis attempts to answer 3 questions: what is the purpose of the author?, who is it intended for?, and how will the author present it to the audience?. Students utilize this by using several strategies…

In Pre-K there are no test or papers to write we learn through play. Most of the learning is through a hands-on approach. Students performance are measured based Brigance Inventory Early Development III Standards, Teaching Strategy Gold Standards, IEP goals, Completion of Tasks, a Natural Environment and journals Formal Assessment: Brigance Inventory Early Development III Standards provides a comprehensive formal assessment that is designed to assess if students are reaching benchmarks in their…

She let me know that seven of her students are receiving an intervention, two of them have an IEP, one of them is receiving Tier three RTI while four of them are receiving Tier 2 RTI for Reading. She said most of her students are ESL students, so at the beginning of the year majority was struggling with reading, but presently, the teachers have seen a lot of improvement in the children because there is a lot of practice, support and progress monitoring. She said the allotted time for the Tier…

(Dole et al., 1996) collaborates the importance of declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge. They found procedural and conditional knowledge were important in the reading process, especially for at-risk readers with limited declarative knowledge (p. 74). Reciprocal Teaching Reciprocal Teaching refers to the cycling of information from the teacher to the students. The Reciprocal Teaching technique, also known as the “Fab Four,” consisting of four strategies. The strategies include…

My love for reading and writing began at a young age, although, it was short lived. When I was in elementary school, I always looked forward to writing stories in my journal about the various topics my teacher created. I learned to read and write by sitting at a table in my living room, tracing the letters of the alphabet on a small piece of paper, and trying my best to pronounce the foreign letters in front of me. Reading has made me into the person I am today by allowing me to have many…

The child that I chose to observe turned out to be the most interested in literacy out of the entire class. This four year old girl came into classroom and was offered the option of joining the carpet where the boys were playing with blocks. She did not want to join the boys on the carpet to play with blocks, instead she was given the idea from Ms. Christy to bring a book over for her to read. The child ran over to the book shelf to pick out a book. You could tell she was happy to do this. At…