Comprehension

When interviewed educators felt that they had a clear understanding of how to implement the intervention. In addition, and perhaps more importantly the educators felt the training increased their understanding of the importance of comprehension skills and felt that this intervention improved their general reading instruction, practice (Kaldon et al., 2017a, Kaldon et al., 2017b, Ransford-Kaldon et al., 2010, Ransford-Kaldon et al, 2013). This is a strength of this intervention for students…

Accelerated Reader is a computerized program that assess comprehension of a book that a student has a read. With the computerized program, students are given a goal that consists of how many points they need a certain time span along with their reading level. The books are leveled and points are assigned depending on how many difficult the book is. After a student reads a book, they take a test to see how well they comprehend the book. Teachers can access the quiz grades and keep track on…

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…

reflection, “A possible game he could like is Tic Tac Toe for reading comprehension, or a cube dice while reading,” (reflections, 2/7) I feel that a cube dice for reading comprehension will help my student focus more because he loves playing games and doing hands-on activities. I thought of this idea, but haven’t followed through with the credible resource or by implementing it into my lessons. My student struggles with comprehension and I believe that this would be…

When reading the story, “Big Cats,” by Lynnette Evans, there were numerous vocabulary words, which would be difficult for a first grade class to comprehend and use in their oral language. The following words and reasoning for choosing the words are listed below. • Word #1- Predator o I chose the word, “predator,” because this word is important for students to know this vocabulary word to comprehend the story and learn more about Big Cats. I also chose this word because this word cannot only be…

development: phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. (p. 2) 1. Phonological awareness –sensitivity to the structure of sounds in language 2. Phonics—relationship between phonemes and graphemes 3. Vocabulary—words and word meanings in language 4. Fluency—naming quickly familiar symbols, letters or numbers, and reading quickly, accurately, and effortlessly 5. Reading comprehension—understanding the meaning of text C. Cognitive processes such as memory…

“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.”-Archibald Putt.” Now I chose this specific author quote because I feel that it applies to the topic at hand “is modern Technology hurting us more than it’s helping us”? And in my opinion, I do not feel that modern technology is hurting us in any shape, way or Form. Technology not only helps us keep up with friends and family that we have grown out of…

much stress simply on rate and accuracy? Marsha Buly and Sheila Valencia’s study found that one of five students who failed a state fourth-grade reading test were automatic decoders but had little comprehension. (pg.95) Putting too stress on rate and accuracy is not helping students with comprehension. Student focusing on the accuracy and rate is problematic because they believe that will help them perform efficiently. Students need to put as much focus into actually understanding what they…

decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification, word attack, and word comprehension. Derek struggles with identifying and blending beginning, middle, and ending sounds for words. Derek’s word attack skills are below average, resulting in Derek making incorrect substitutions for words and nonsense…

Approaches to Learning: Students in the class are mostly social, auditory, and visual (spatial) learners. The students do well when the teacher goes through the book or lesson with the whole class. The students need a variety of examples and cues for comprehension. Writing examples on the board as well as prepared visuals put on the board help the visual learners. Group work and games help many of the students in the class understand the content. These students do well with learning a new…