Dyslexia

The Teacher Who Believed In Me My most memorable moment, during my early years of school, was my seventh grade English Teacher, Mrs. McCoy. She was by far my favorite teacher ever. She made learning fun and enjoyable due to a very energetic and caring personality. You could tell that she genuinely cared about how well her students did in her class. She always worked with her students that needed extra help with the assignments. And I was definitely one of her students that…

Throughout the coursework in my Master’s program, I learned many factors and considerations of reading. Most importantly, I learned that reading is so much more than simply decoding words. Reading requires the reader to use multiple strategies simultaneously in order to properly decode and comprehend. To an outsider, reading can seem to be a simple activity that most children learn from a young age. When I first began working with students who had difficulty reading, I was surprised by how many…

The writing program used by the teacher comes from Lucy Caulkins. After lunch every day, the class begins their one hour writing block. The block generally begins with a mini-lesson that takes up about 10-15 minutes. These lessons usually involve the teacher modeling for the students different skills and techniques that they will practice in their writer’s notebooks. For the first portion of the year, the class has been mainly working on three different writing skills: how to pick topics to…

No Words for This Essay In elementary school, feeling like the odd kid out because I read so slowly, I tried try to hurry and end up stuttering along the way. I didn’t mind reading these short timed stories, it was the fact that I was being timed to how long it takes me to read. It was aggravating; I absolutely hated it. I would try to hurry and beat the time that I had before. For me, this assignment is extremely difficult because reading and writing has not always been thrilling subjects for…

Throughout most of middle school and the beginning of high school, I was a very factual person. I mostly read books that were informational and it was rather rare to see me in the fiction section of a library. Even when I was very little, I was more interested in watching a documentary than your standard kid’s show. So, in the tenth grade, when I had to take a creative writing class, I was not very excited about it. However, it was there that I would learn a number of writing skills that would…

When reading something have you ever had such a strong feeling about what’s happening? Ever put yourself in the shoes of the character or person writing, and wondered, how or why am I connecting to this so much? Pathos, ethos, and logos are all things that help you connect and trust what you are reading. Pathos are things that emotionally connect to the reader to stir up their emotions to help them connect to the piece they are reading more and to persuade them to agree with the author. The…

I love learning new things and so far reading One Way Love by Tullian Tchividjian, grace has been one thing that has been made plain to me. Most of the books I end up reading are extremely challenging and require intense thinking; although, there is nothing wrong with critical thinking, it is relaxing to sit down and feel like you are talking with the author. Something that I have had a tough time understanding is the true meaning of grace. A sentence that stuck out to me is, “Grace is a love…

Strain is defined as an overexertion or an excessive demand of resources. Strain is much like asking a student to read a book in the dark. The lack of light strains the eyes and confines the ability to read and comprehend the text. Much like lack of light may make it difficult for someone to read a book, lack of resources and opportunities makes it difficult for some individuals to achieve the goals of society. Individual juvenile strain theory is used to understand and predict criminal deviant…

Project 1- Reading and Writing and Bechdel: When thinking about the way we read and write as individual’s, we often do not think of someone reading or writing a comic book, we often jump right to the conclusion of a person reading or writing something along the lines of a novel. Bechdel did just that, in creating her comic book “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” she wrote and read in a comic book style. She developed reading and writing as a recurring theme in the duration of her piece. Throughout…

While coming upon a reading by Annie Dillard which was assigned by my drawing instructor. I have come to realize seeing is a special attribute. Annie Dillard an author, narrates her childhood in the book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She writes on how we perceive our world and universe. One extreme example she uses people that have cataracts, or blind since birth. These people don’t know the meaning of what color, form, and distance mean. Our vision as an artist is to capture our perspective and let…