Cold reading

Seuss due to it being one of my favorite bed time stories when I was around four or five. I can still imagine the sound of my mother’s voice reading to me and my younger brother as my heart beat began slowing down and I drifted off into sleep. Her voice was sweet and calm, never loud but never too quiet, just perfect. On the way home that bright sunny day my heart was racing, my toes were tapping…

Jay-ce is a 5-year-old kindergartener diagnosis with ASD. She is an only child. Jay-ce is in a general education class but gets support in math and reading by me, the ESE support teacher. As a five-year-old there are a few milestones she should be able to do. For language Jay-ce should be able to recall part of a story, and speaks sentences of more than five words, for cognitive milestones, she should be able to count ten or more objects. For social and emotional milestones, Jay-ce want to be…

Art therapy is essentially the marriage of two disciplines. The blissful combination of art and psychology make for a delightful field of study. Aspects of visual arts, the creative process, human development, behavior, personality, and mental health, among others, are important to the definitions and scope of art therapy. I myself am an artist. To bring this to a more personal note, I am going to take you back down when I was a tiny tot, and just beginning to read and write. I was…

linguistic, a history guru and absolute geography maniac and that is all because of his relentless reading habits. Owing to his passion and appreciation for his books, the love of reading instilled in all of us his children. His aspiration played remarkable contributions to my literacy and, moreover, how I value the importance of it.…

been translated into various forms in order for it to be taught effectively in class. With dramas, such as Hamlet and Macbeth, Shakespeare was able to explore many themes that are very relatable to his readers, which is why teachers today use both reading, technology and analyzing/performing in their classrooms so their students are able to understand the plot more clearly, see the different emotions that writing can evoke in a person, and to be able to use what they read to make a connection in…

Reading: Hunter is currently receiving services in the ICR Reading class. He has good initial background information and can apply his outside knowledge when reading texts in class. He contributes to class discussion, and will add details from his personal experiences when applicable. Based on the CORE Phonics Survey - Reading and Decoding administered on November 9, 2016, Hunter is reading at 123 wcpm wcpm with 100% accuracy. The CORE Vocabulary Screening (6th grade) was also administered and…

of the personality of the student, which helps to orient kids in the book. Of course, each lesson should be interesting, logical, orderly, cognitive, active as of the child must be "charged" the reader's interest by having a particular interest in reading. For me, as a student who had this kind of practice was such curious experience that during every circle meeting provided a new task (a role). My roles were word wizard, literary luminary, and character critic. As a reader,…

Anxiety An old man dressed in robes of the coldest shade of onyx had been following Gaelle for all of her life. He was everywhere, lurking in every nook and cranny, blending into every shadow, hiding in all the spots that were close enough for him to interfere but far enough that she could never gain a semblance of what he looked might look like. He bid his time, and he was patient, because he knew that he would wreak havoc when he came out. She first met him when she was just a breath away from…

Students with low incidence disabilities will benefit from direct instruction as a method of teaching. In reading, one expectation for these students is to be able to compare and contrast themes from passages that have been read. Direct instruction is one way this skill can be taught. One of the first goals of direct teaching is to keep the students interested in the topic being taught. Because focusing on assignments can be difficult for these students, this technique will assist these…

For this assignment, I chose to use my daughter, Kaylie who is a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore, as the participant. Before starting the activity, I asked her a series of questions that included “What is thinking?”, “What is learning?”, “What do you do when you need to remember something?”, “What things do you do in your head when you are trying to study for a test?”, and “Do you have any certain study techniques that you use when studying for a test or trying to learn new information?”…