Comprehension

Content area literacy is an important part of a students’ literacy development. My definition is that it is the part of literacy that helps students comprehend different subjects and the information that comes with the content. A student will not be completely successful if they do not fully understand what they are supposed to be learning. This puts a great deal of pressure on our shoulders as teachers to make sure our students can read and write successfully in all content areas. My past…

the highest levels of comprehension. The findings of the study proved only to be significant when the two strategies are placed together. This article could be beneficial in that it describes two different vocabulary techniques that can be used and discusses how affective the combination of the two can be. This article also provides some contradictory research which states that some researchers believe that vocabulary previewing does not assist with overall comprehension, only target words.…

I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives…

are focusing on phonemic awareness, letter sounds, listening comprehension, vocabulary development (Lennon and Slesinski, 1999). Year one students would focus on phonemic awareness (Ehri, 2007), phonics (Gunn, 2000), Fluency (high frequency words), fluency connected with text (Ehri, 2007), Vocabulary (Gunn, 2000) and comprehension. In Year two, students are focusing on phonics, fluency with connected text, vocabulary and comprehension. Although the Response to intervention program can be…

conversation and research. The idea that reading interventions are not beneficial for high school students is no longer the case. Actually, researchers are creating intervention programs with the belief those interventions that target reading comprehension benefits older students with reading difficulties. This current shift in mindset comes at a time…

Before reading this text, I will meet with my ELL students to develop lesson plan more specific than the rest of the group may need. I know that being able to summarize will help ELLs with reading, so I know this activity will be a great activity as they can draw and write what they read about the story. The students will be able to draw the main events in the story according to the timeline (boxes) of events they construct on their worksheet. If the ELLs struggled with reading, then there is…

In the case of the efferent, a series of comprehension questions or multiple choice exercise may well play its role to assess reading. It is used to prove that the student has read and remember specific details of this reading. The teacher knows if the answers are correct or not, and may issue a specific…

to make to cater to all types of learners. I was deeply involved in the designing, implementing, and evaluating of my lesson. Before designing my lesson plan, I asked my Mentor what his students struggled with the most. His reply was reading comprehension…

student learning and influence reading comprehension is to teach metacognitive skills. Bonds and Bonds (1992) recognized “the relationship between metacognition and reading because good readers use words for information and read more strategically while poorer readers depend on contextual sources for meaning” (as cited in Hopper, Jayroe, & Franz, 2008, p. 7). To ensure that students become lifelong readers, they must be instructed on how to deepen their comprehension of…

they are to follow an organized writing format, I want them to be creative and expressive in sharing their opinions. I highly value the five components of reading because they are all connected. Phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading comprehension and fluency are the five components that work together to create the reading experience. Students must develop skills in all the five areas to become successful skilled readers. Phonics is the connections between sounds and letter symbols.…