Fluency

Learning Context P.S. 304, The Early Childhood Lab School, is committed to creating a culturally diverse school that promotes unity amongst students, teachers and the community. Their primary goal is to encourage students to strive to their full potential in all academic areas, foster positive work ethics and instill a lifelong love for learning. The schools demographics consist of 58% Hispanics, 28% Caucasian, 6% Asian, 6% African American, 1% English Language Learners and 24% Special Needs. P…

The Life Of Jacqueline Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy was the first lady of the United States before her husband, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, but she left a great number of things to be known for. She was an iconic first lady because she restored the White house, supported the arts, promoted historic preservation, served as a traveling ambassador, and influenced the world of fashion. The first ironic thing Jacqueline introduced was supporting the arts. During her first month of…

completing the readings and participating in the discussions, I have a greater understanding of the many facets of reading. In my original “Thoughts on Reading” paper, I indicated that three critical components of the reading process where phonics, fluency, and comprehension. At the conclusion of this course, I have determined that all three of these components are related to cognitive processes. My current model of the reading process, on the other hand, focuses not just on the cognitive…

Karen Dudek-Brannan see are articulation and language, but voice and fluency is most likely not seen. If Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan receives a patient with fluency, which she has, she consults with other speech-language pathologists’ who’s had more experience with fluency and does research. Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan mentioned how in the school you can’t turn down a client they give you, however if one were to work in their…

However, progress was slower than initially anticipated and targets were reevaluated regularly. For example, the three in a row playing board (Appendix ) continued to demonstrate a concern in his number sense. However, he also demonstrated increased fluency and understanding of place value and trading in other lessons. This was especially evident in pictorial representations of base-ten blocks in which Boris was able to subitise quantities quickly (Appendix ). This is likely because of his…

Cognitive function is a complicated function of human brain. The risk factors of cognitive function are not comprehensive. Cognitive function can be influenced by psychological (Santos et al.,2012 ), nutritional, medical (including medical conditions and prescription and nonprescription medications), social, economic, or behavioral, toxic environmental exposures, and genetic factors(Plassman et al., 2010) . As worldwide population aging, this topic increasingly interests researchers. There are…

Some issues that have related to the debate over bilingual education are if they should have dual language programs in schools. These programs give instructions in students’ native language, and English is the goal of developing proficiency in both languages. They will spend half a day with their native language and the other half of the day in English. This helps grow and create a positive impact on all students’ development. There is higher ELA and narrowing of the achievement gap for school…

Having reached the semester’s midpoint, two tasks were accomplished. Firstly, I directed Stephanie’s music show, thereby solidifying my understanding of studio roles, and gaining practical experience producing a broadcast program. Although Stephanie’s show exists independently of mine, it is important to offer assistance; without teamwork, no program could be completed. Thereafter, my broadcast group began developing our script. Accordingly, filming Stephanie’s program was a primary objective.…

For this standard I created a classroom newsletter that would go out to parents at the beginning of the school year. To create this newsletter, I used the website mailchimp.com. On this website, I picked a newsletter template, and then customized photos, fonts, and text to create my newsletter. This newsletter can easily be emailed out to all parents, using a stored email list on Mailchimp. This is a great tool to use in my classroom to email parents newsletters about current classroom events,…

Within my 2nd grade English Language Arts classroom in Pittsburgh, PA, I teach my students to read using constructivist methods and with a whole-language approach. Teaching in a constructivist manner involves first and foremost assessing my students on individualized interests, ability levels, and learning styles before I can begin successfully differentiating reading instruction to meet students’ individualized needs. Within my teaching pedagogy for English Language Arts instruction, I focus on…