Comprehension

they are English Language Learners and they are in an all English instruction classroom. For all four students, I used reading assessments from the McGraw-Hill Website which provided me reading passages with two questions at the end to check for comprehension. Since my students are reading at different reading levels, I had to provide them with different reading passages based on their reading levels, I used a total of two different passages since I have two students reading at first grade…

Learning to read is probably the single most critical skill that a child will acquire in his or her lifetime. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, as many in every five children has a significant reading disability (American Psychological Association, 2014). An important part of reading instruction for struggling students is the use of the right program and intervention at the right time. With so many packaged reading intervention programs out there, it is difficult to…

Read and Respond My guiding principle regarding reading comprehension is that reading is always meaning driven. Without thinking and understanding, reading is just calling words. The reader must bring all he or she knows about the story or topic before, during and after reading. There needs to be an interaction between reader and text. The reader needs to question, predict, wonder while reading in order to fully interact and gather up all the meaning he/she can. Sometimes, it is reading…

Assignment 1 EDF3306 Vocabulary and spelling. Theories based around the ideas of teaching vocabulary and spelling have informed much of what teachers include in their lesson and how they teach the topics of vocabulary and spelling. Throughout this text, I will touch on the theories informing the research established in this field whilst also looking at teaching vocabulary and spelling in a practical way. Theoretical Information Included in Digital Resource The teaching of vocabulary is…

you interpret it allows you to maintain the understanding and definitions of words that we know and alter it through the learning of language that is spoken. In order for us to understand language through printed words we have to first combine comprehension and decoding. The ability to notice, think about and work with individual sounds in spoken words is known as phonemic awareness. It is essential that children need to become aware of how the sounds in words work before they can learn to…

in the classroom. The students at Mason seemed to me very interested in reading and many of the student I interviewed said reading was their favorite subject in school. The system that Mason Intermediate School uses to track reading and asses comprehension is a programs called AR reading. AR reading has a point system based on the difficulty of the book. The more difficult the reading level, the higher the points. At the beginning of the 9 week quarter, my host teacher Mrs. Nagel, created a…

Comprehension strategies form a bridge between teacher-originated guidance and independent learning behaviors by students. One strategy that I really feel like would be great for an elementary class was the KWL strategy. The students are able to bring in their prior knowledge of the world around them to the “What I know” section (“K”). Then the students need to generate what they want to learn about before they read and then write their answers down in the “W” section. After the students read…

“Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” from Haas & Flowers wants us to understand the true meaning of reading and writing, how we need to see reading as a “constructive rather than a receptive process” (Haas & Flower 167). Targeting students and teachers as well, Haas and Flower managed to develop an article that explains and shows us some misconception of our daily writing life that should be known by everybody. They make questions towards students asking if they really…

general cognitive ability deficit experienced by the university students with specific reading comprehension deficit. This study was conducted on the student of 32 universities who were lagging behind in reading skills. It is find out that taking into consideration working memory and general cognitive ability are highly correlated processes, these findings reveals the students observed with poor comprehension are suffering from a deficient information processing…

has become the universal medium through which information flows through my ears and eyes to the brain.” (p. 1). This article highlights that the internet corrode the ability of humans to focus and foresee what they are reading. Rather of reading comprehension texts, technology changed people into “laid-back” readers who only brush over written work. Many people said that school is much easier nowadays than it used to be years before because now people are able to search on the internet while…