Decoding

dyslexic. Being dyslexic had always caused me to feel like I was fighting an uphill battle that knew no end. As a fifth grader I entered a new school, a school where students were to call their teachers by their first name, a school with classes called ‘decoding’ and ‘morphographs’, a school that was filled with students like me; dyslexic. For the past five years this learning environment has provided me with a strong academic foundation. As I mentioned previously school did not come easy to me,…

Reading Comprehension: According to assessment data, teacher observations and reporting, Chris strengths in reading is his fluency, decoding, capabilities of identifying main event from a “short” narrative text, can answers most “wh” questions about narrative text at grade-level. Chris's poor reading comprehension skills have caused him to struggle with classroom assignments. He doesn’t stay on task when reading is required in the classroom especial with lengthy passages/text at grade level or…

strategies which are aimed at helping the child to improve deficits in the particular area of disability are employed. Areas of disability include reading decoding, reading comprehension, or speed of reading. The dyslexic is helped to identity, recognise and correlate the sounds of alphabets (graphemes). He is also helped to build focus on decoding with abilities to blend sounds (Phonemes) into words (morphemes) and break words into component sounds. With time the child is taught to focus on the…

Q: What is Social Referencing? A: Social Referencing is intentionally searching for information about how others feel to help explain the meaning of uncertain circumstances and events. Infants and toddlers use this because they are new to situations and by examining others they can use it as reference as to how they are supposed to respond to a situation. This occurs around eight to nine months of age and is one of the first sophisticated social abilities that they learn. It can be seen by what…

and Toddler Physical development is the growth of gross (and fine) motor skills and how infants & toddlers use them. Gross motor skills include running, jumping, throwing, and walking. Cognitive development involves thought processes, storing, decoding, memorizing, etc. The connection between physical and cognitive development is that the infant or toddler must think about what or who they want and how they going to get it. Simply put, their cognitive development must be strong enough in…

Nathan’s teacher became aware of his lack of phonemic awareness. Nate does not have the ability to distinguish among the different sounds and break words into their individual sounds (phonemes). In his situation he spends a large amount of time decoding words, which affects his comprehension, reading and writing. Nathans transition from the general education classroom to the resource room is a means of intervention, which allows him to get more individualized attention. As a result, he improved…

As student strengthens phonemic awareness skills their fluency builds, allow students to focus deeper on comprehension skills than on decoding words. “Many teachers provide phonics instruction to students who struggle to learn to read to compensate for initial reading problems. Often, these students become accurate decoders, but fail to reach a level of sufficient fluency (automaticity)…

Importance of communication has always been realized in all times because it is the most vital means by which people are connected together in society. However, today communication plays a crucial role in almost all aspects of life. Work in business, government or organizations are impossible without communication. People have to communicate with each other, exchange information, make decisions and talk about innovations. Management is a complex practice of communicating with other people. In an…

Being able to teach students to read is a vital tool to help them be successful in school and beyond. Letter recognition, being able to sound out the letters, grouping letters and learning how to use phonic is imperative. Sight words are the most common words that we use. According to the author (Gunning, 2013) “without phonics, we would not be able to read new words, pg. 202.” If student is struggling in phonics learning, there are steps to take to help them. First assess all students’ skill…

Assessment Findings Record Review Background Britney is a 7th grade student at Ann Arbor Middle School. She currently lives with her mother, father, twin sister, and younger brother (7 years-old). Britney enjoys writing short stories and playing the violin. Medical History Britney’s medical records indicate that she is a healthy 13-year-old with no evident medical conditions. She passed a hearing screen and vision screen with glasses on in 2016. Academic History Britney attended Ann…