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rate was 12 words correct per minute (WCPM). The average first grader reads 30 WCPM at mid-year…

more help. In other words, writing an essay for me it's pretty difficult since we have to expand on the question which makes it more harder for me to focus on one specific topic. However, we have been working on written response where we have to read a topic related “French Law” and either go against it or not. Writing your own summary; improves in your grammar, vocabulary and the three major organization (Beginning, Middle & End). Bringing your own dictionary to look up at a word help it more…

First I want to look at “young and beautiful like a blooming white spring flower” In this I wanted to show what Mildred looked like in the photo. I did this by comparing her to a blooming white spring flower. I chose these words because when I think about beauty I think of blossoming flowers that are coming out in the spring. Then the reason why I chose white to describe the flowers because white symbolized purity and youth which is what I was trying to get the reader to think…

always be something lost in translation, because one word may not mean the same thing in a different language. An example is Apalache not just being a major city but also the general area in which they are…

Decoding is when children have the ability to apply his or her knowledge of graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds) to pronounce print correctly (“Word Decoding and Phonics,” n.d.). Nevertheless, having child understand the relationship between graphemes and phonemes allow him or her to identify acquainted words quickly, as well as learn new words (“Word Decoding and Phonics,” n.d.). Moreover, if I were a kindergarten or first grade teacher, I would use the following created text book: I Can…

Just like selecting words for vocabulary instruction there are many different philosophies of ways in which is consider teaching high quality vocabulary instruction. The two I am going to highlight on Marzano and Graves. Dr. Robert Marzano suggest that there are 2,800 basic vocabulary terms students should know. He suggest placing those terms into semantic clusters. That means teacher places words that are related together, in order to build scaffolding. Then from those words the teacher can…

How long does it take you to remember something? If you are cramming for a test do you feel like you remember things faster? If I give a participant an easy fifty word essay, then how long would it take for the participant to remember and recite it? Are there any tactics that help your brain store information better? Let's see what you can learn from this paper, but also what you can remember from it later. The reason or purpose I chose this topic to do research on because I sometimes forget to…

to I don’t want to look at them as a cheater, or a liar. Therefore, I wouldn’t want to see any political member or anyone for that matter that has plagiarized there work to get were they are at. After, reading about John Walsh and how he took word for word from another’s work to obtain a degree and being that he is a Senator, was disappointing. However, in his case it seemed as though it was a stressful time and only happened once, although, it still doesn’t justify, but does show what people…

It’s mention in the article that about 3,000 papers from freshman college students were studied and the top five errors found were: no comma use after an introductory element, pronoun reference, no comma in compound sentence, wrong word, and no comma in a non-restrictive element. Using the results of these studies, business communication professors may be able to help their students overcome these common punctuation errors. Reimold, Cheryl, and Peter Reimold. “Tips for Making Writing…

First she needs to work ono sounding out unfamiliar words. Based on the inventory, she tends to either skip the word all together or take the first two letters of a word and say the first word that comes to mind with the same beginning letters; whether it makes sense or not. Since she has trouble sounding out words, this interrupts her fluency, which in-effect leads to lower comprehension percentages. This is basically a cycle that…