International Phonetic Alphabet

Broadway actors are required to maintain a higher state of physical, emotional, mental, and social stamina than many other modern day professionals in their careers. The social character that these performers have to possess not only affects their work based life, but also their personal lives as well. Once these artist debut in their first show, many people begin watching them. From people that love the show, to people that work within the industry. No other career parallels to the stress…

The reading case that I will be using for this artifact showcases my capability to make wise decisions about what should be taught and how it should be taught, according to the educational needs of a student. By participating in this case study, I recognized and evaluated the needs of one particular student, in tier II of the RTI process, who was falling behind and not meeting the educational goals set for Kindergarteners in the State of Georgia. By identifying his needs, I could use…

Assessment Gillam, S. L., & Ford, M. B. (2012). Dynamic assessment of phonological awareness for children with speech sound disorders. Child Language Teaching & Therapy, 28(3), 297-308. doi:10.1177/0265659012448087 Introduction: Gillam and Ford created a dynamic assessment to observe the associations concerning performance on a nonverbal phoneme deletion, word-level reading, and speech sound production that require verbal responses for school-age children with speech sound disorders. The…

Laughing gas has been used as an anesthesia for dentistry since 1844. Up to today, it has been used for many other medical procedures and surgeries, but it is widely known and used for oral surgeries. The procedure of laughing gas in surgery is very simple, Dinitrogen monoxide (N2O) is a gas in which you inhale. When you inhale the colourless gas, it reaches the brain in around 20 seconds and it starts to relax your body and develop pain-killing properties to keep you composed and calm. You…

Research further suggests that systematic, explicit Synthetic phonics (sound blending) to be fast, effective and efficient opposed to the other methods (Johnson & Watson, as cited in Konza, 2016). Consequently, Synthetic phonics was mandated to be taught in English and Welsh schools by the UK Government (The Rose Report, 2006). Such that prep students will start learning a phoneme per day with the use a variety of programs (Jolly phonics, Alpha blocks, ABC reading eggs), allowing many students…

As many teachers search for new strategies and interventions to address the lack of fluency within their reading programs, Repeated Reading (RR) appears to be a topic of curiosity. RR is an evident based strategy designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension through the development of automatic word processing and contextualized linguistic effect (Winter, 2007). Similar to the text features on a cell phone, automatic word processing is the ability to detect and comprehend a word…

different alphabets, and then some. However, the first two alphabets, collectively called ‘kana,’ only have about a hundred characters to them. Furthermore, they are phonetic, which means that they represent one sound that never changes regardless of context, unlike the third alphabet whose characters have multiple readings and whose pronunciation depends entirely on context. With this in mind, when I saw a free online program that promised to teach you how to read and write both kana alphabets…

“Totally like whatever, you know?” So like when I talk to kids my age, they just all like never seem to know what they are talking about anymore, you know? We have all at one time met or talked to someone that talks like my example above; it’s hard to make sense of what they are saying and they seem like they are unsure of what they are talking about. In the poem, “ Totally like whatever, you know,” author Taylor Mali says, “ In case hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like…

create a foundation first. At that time, I did not what she meant by creating a foundation. But I quickly found out that creating a foundation meant that I would have to go through hours of learning how to write and read the alphabet. At first, I was very excited to learn the alphabet and finally get to write my letter. My mother brought out a book, where you had to trace the letter. As a child, trying to learn how to hold a pencil was rough for me. My little hands had a hard time holding a…

The writing center was designed with the goal in mind of providing with didactic materials that will help the child to develop skills. For example the fine motor skill, how to grab the pencil, how to write on the paper, and how to play with match cards with words and pictures. Such materials were displayed on a table at the child’s level. The materials I provided had the main purpose of being explored to understand the concept of words and learn letters. I used the materials so he could be…