Comprehension

In the teaching career, each teacher must come across at least one hard-to-teach student. It is normally not easy to deal with these kinds of students since they engage in activities that teachers do not like or are not motivated to attend lessons. This makes the learning experience difficult because both the teacher and the student experience some difficulties. Among the hard-to-teach or difficult students include the “tough kid”, reluctant and unmotivated students, and students with learning…

Oppenheimer’s article, “The Pen Is Mightier than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand over Laptop Note Taking”. Students who used laptops took more notes than those who took notes longhand - however, those who took notes by hand had a stronger conceptual comprehension and learned more. In addition, using longhand to take notes helped force the brain to comprehend and retain the information being taught. Admittedly, those who used laptops to take notes in class tended to transcribe the lecture…

Jason is a 16 year old student who just completed his junior year of high school. Ms. Mau describes Jason as a bright and friendly student with a specific learning disability in reading and reading comprehension. However, Ms. Gutowski describes Jason as being strong in math and time management. Jason is treasurer of the student council and plays racquetball in a community league with some of his friends. He is also an active member of the youth group at his church and on weekends he likes to…

Paasche-Orlow MK: Using computer agents to explain medical documents to patients with low health literacy. Patient Educ Couns. 2009, 75 (3): 315-320. Campbell FA, Goldman BD, Boccia ML, Skinner M: The effect of format modifications and reading comprehension on recall of informed consent information by low-income parents: a comparison of print, video, and computer-based presentations. Patient Educ Couns. 2004, 53 (2): 205-216. Freer Y, McIntosh N, Teunisse S, Anand KJ, Boyle EM: More…

After observing Student A for almost a month a gained insight that she struggled in both math and reading. When speaking with her teachers they both have examined the same thing. The teachers both explained that since third grade she has not yet passed the milestone testing. During small group instruction there are days where she will try to do the work and other days she will look off into space and not want to do anything. I often have to encourage her to stay on task with anything she does…

According to Piaget’s cognitive theory, he believed that people adapted to their social environment. proposes that kids travel through four unique phases of mental advancement. His hypothesis centers on seeing how kids secure learning, as well as on comprehension the way of intelligence. Piaget trusted that children played a dynamic part in the learning procedure, acting much like little researchers as they perform tests, mention objective facts and find out about the world.Which can change…

Literacy Skills I as a teacher am going to teach children how to read and write. I am going to discuss an understanding of how a child’s literacy develops, how to establish a literate environment, my teaching and learning strategies, and provide an assessment. Reading and writing are very important part of our children’s education. It also is important that a teacher understands how to provide a classroom with resources to accomplish their goals. Literacy Development Children develop literacy…

themselves appropriately at home. It has been established through this literature review that many patients do not follow discharge instructions and they can cause themselves further harm from this (Vashi & Rhodes, 2011). Low literacy levels and poor comprehension are major reasons for this (McCarthy et al., 2012). Ministry of Health (2010) established that literacy levels are lower in Maori than non-Maori, so that towns with a high proportion of Maori population are at risk of adverse…

Evan’s spelling has developed well this semester and has been working confidently in his spelling group. Evan enjoys Guided Reading, and he reads confidently with in his group. Evan needs to continue to practice reading and focus on developing his comprehension skills and fluency skills. 6. Abbie In English, Abbie has worked well on writing genres we have covered this semester. Abbie has shown a satisfactory understanding of procedure, recount and information writing creating imaginative…

Vincent Flores and Mingyu Wong are two 8th grade students in the English class. Both students are immigrants who came to the United States at a young age. Vincents’ first language is Spanish, which he also speaks at home with his parents. Currently proficient at the 2nd grade level, which puts him six levels below his current grade level. This could be attributed to the fact that his education was interrupted and he did not start school until he was 5 years old. The first language used by Mingyu…