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The educational system has recently made some changes regarding the reading intervention. The interventions include intensive and structured programs for children with dyslexia. What does Dyslexia mean? Dyslexia is defined as weaknesses in spelling, decoding words and word detection. Problems in phonological processing of sounds result in the failure to read. Such difficulties can affect acquiring vocabulary, academics and reading comprehension. What are the characteristics of Dyslexia? The…

Why is it critical for teachers of reading to understand language foundations? Understanding language foundations It is critical for teachers to understand language foundations for the simple reason, they will be teaching students basic reading foundations. Many of these students will become struggling readers and will need to have the best reading teacher to help them become successful. I feel like this is such a natural and basic idea. If you want to learn a new skill, would you go to a…

There’s nothing like meeting an international student for the first time. Their experiences in a new country become new experiences for yourself as well, even though your environment does not change. You remember how it is to interact/communicate with them for the first time and as time goes on you get to see a first hand account of the progress that is being made throughout the year(s). I had an amazing opportunity that opened my eyes to diversity and perseverance that began my freshman year of…

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” –William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is known as an incredible writer and actor. However, over the past couple centuries, his authenticity is one that concerns a lot of scholars. The amount of knowledge and skill requires for someone to have written these type of works does not match up with Shakespeare’s background. From looking at what Shakespeare has left behind, and…

Monolingual vs. Bilingual Education and Public Schools The United States is currently experiencing large influxes of immigrants in the public education system. Since the majority of these immigrant children speak a language other than English, schools are faced with the burden of educating them in content, language, and culture, with few effective resources. The Supreme Court places immigrant children in the public education system with their ruling that all persons, regardless of documentation,…

elements work together to make a child a better reader and understand what they are reading. I now believe that in order for a child to be a “good reader” they need to have basic phonics skills and phonemic awareness, but they also need to have reading fluency, such as prosody, voice, smoothness, and expression.…

Five Areas of Reading Instruction Sara Cordes Mohave Community College Five Areas of Reading Instruction The five areas of reading instruction are essential to the learning process that all children must go through to become well educated in their lives as adults. Teachers/Instructors use Bloom’s Taxonomy and/or Webb’s DOK (Depth of Knowledge), when grading or challenging students in their levels of thinking. In 1956, Bloom’s Taxonomy consisted of levels of thinking, that…

Based on the assertion that many professional development programs are designed to support student learning, teachers play an important role in determining what educational materials and tasks are presented to students and how they are delivered. Therefore, building teacher capacity to deliver innovative and engaging curriculum through professional development becomes a crucial element toward achieving educational goals (Hawley & Valli, 1999). Traditional, face-to-face professional development…

Music plays an important role in people’s daily life. Previous studies suggest that music positively affects people’s cognitive performance especially working memory. Many college students read, do homework or prepare for exams while listening to music. Background music is an important environmental factor in our learning context that may have impact on our attention span and later recall of information. However, whether background music serves as a distractor or enhancer on memory remain an…

Communicative Competence: The principle goal of CLT is to develop learners’ communicative competence in the second language through communication and interaction with others (Brown, 2002)the role of grammar ص40 ريتشارد اند او مدري مين The notion of communicative competence was first mentioned by Hymes. He invented this term to compare between a communicative view of language and Chomsky's theory of competence. Chomsky(1965) mentioned that the main concern of the linguistic theory is to define…