Cold reading

Constructivsim in reading theory requires that students, at any age, be actively engaged in determining their own purpose and constructing their own meaning . The reader is fully integrated using higher order thinking skills and solves practical problems that are real-world and relevant. The teacher acts as a facilitator to to encourage student questions and interpretations without expectation of one correct answer. Online learning can be an example. Students are emphasizing multiple…

how it will make Nisay better or even heal him Sang Ly responds, “I don’t expect reading to make his body well. But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight.” (30). Although Sang Ly believes reading will help her son she knows that it is not going to automatically make him better. Sang Ly wants to give her son a hope that he can be better, and that that hope comes only from reading literature. Physical well being can be dramatically influenced by the…

a difficult time using their working memory, they have another problem of using it for learning basic cognitive skills such as reading. When children are just learning how to read, working memory makes it challenging. To be able to learn how to read, children need to use their working memory to store the new information and process it. Reading does not involve just reading words, it is a very complex process. First, children have to learn the different letters and what they sound like. Second,…

her difficulties in reading and spelling. TR has difficulty in identifying the sounds in spoken words as well as the ability to manipulate these sounds. She has an underlying difficulty with phonological processing speed indicating that she has a problem with her verbal working memory, her ability to retrieve and articulate language quickly. The awareness of sound structure underpins literacy skills. TR also has problems with her speed of visual processing which affects her reading and writing…

Strategic Writing Chapter Two Response In chapter two of Strategic Writing, Deborah Dean writes that successful writing is only accomplished with inquiry (23). Dean argues that we need to push students to investigate new ideas, rather than rely on what they already know (24). A big idea Dean tackles is that our knowledge comes from our experiences (23). Dean suggests supplying students with ample experiences in the classroom to build knowledge (25). When students are more knowledgeable, their…

between Linnea Ehri’s theory of reading development stages along with the educational construct of [being taught] fluency. The key question that the author is addressing is formed into two separate questions. The first question is, “What is fluency?” The second is question is, “How will Ehri’s four stages of reading development along with outside educational teaching resources affect the teacher practice and/or modeling as well as the progression of a student’s reading capabilities in the…

The chart below gives a brief overview of the ten components, and whether or not they are being met in this particular classroom in Northfield. As clearly stated in the chart, the ten components Tompkins’ uses to evaluate curriculum are: reading, phonics, reading and writing strategies, vocab, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing, and selling. The classroom in which I have been placed has aspects of all but 2 of the components in the ELA…

My first memory of reading and writing dates back to my kindergarten days when I could sit there in class and listen to my kindergarten teacher read to use. The teacher read slowly and showed us picture so as make sure that we understood what she was reading to us. She read to us for a number of times and now our turn to practice reading and writing came. I started learning how to write letters, words and finally composing sentences. Spelling was not my thing as I always struggled to get the…

One of Gordon Allport’s important concepts included functional autonomy. Functional autonomy is “where people begin a behavior, such as reading, because they have to, but continue the habit later because it has become enjoyable” (Grand Canyon University, 2015). Additionally, I do think that Allport’s concept of functional autonomy has its truths behind it. Specifically, an instance in my life where functional autonomy presented itself was when I was a child and I did not like to read. I did not…

Two examples of other informal reading assessments are the Phonics Mastery Survey and Phonemic Awareness Assessments. The Phonics Mastery Survey is an informal tool for assessing various phonics elements. This assessment measures a student’s ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, variant vowel sounds, and syllables in words (DeVries 2011 p.112). A student’s ability to use knowledge of sound/letter…