Lip reading

I am the daughter of a kindergarten teacher therefore, I have always had the urge to learn. My interest in reading began when I was a young girl. Through my early years, I watched my mother study day and night as she worked towards her degree. I instantly learned that in order to achieve anything in life one must read. Reading is a vital step in opening the mind up to new material and new possibilities. My mother also had the opportunity to work first hand with a massive amount of books in…

sense that going to school was a significant part of their development. Parents and schoolteachers, helped shape the reader and writer into the individual they are becoming while the students had to take the initiative of learning some on their own. Reading and writing were brought to me various different forms, through parents, teachers, journaling on my own, my sister and peers. One of the biggest influences on my ability to read and write was my parents.…

The various teachers and professors who have taught me have really played a big role in ensuring that I have become as literate as they could possibly prepare me. My parents and siblings have always been a big part of this journey, especially in reading. They have supported me by encouraging me to read as many books as possible. Honestly, growing up in a family of avid readers and a few writers put a lot of pressure on me since I was young We have cultivated the culture of book marathons whereby…

courses. All these rules about syntax and grammar held me back and gave me trouble so much that other people might say that I am not as highly literate as I think I am. But reading never disappointed me such that if you told the 5-year-old girl that couldn’t say three that your mind will mind will be blown away from just reading, she wouldn’t be surprised at…

After reviewing the reading rockets website, I found that the 5 components of beginning English reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, including oral reading skills and reading comprehension strategies. Beth Antunez, author of English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction, says using these 5 components teachers can really reach their students who struggle with English reading development. The first component of the…

Tier 2 interventions are recommended because they will provide more targeted, specialized, and intensive instruction to meet Hannah’s reading needs and help her achieve adequate academic competence. This placement decision is important because research indicates that early intervention can remediate and prevent both current and future reading difficulties (VanDerHeyden & Jimerson, 2005). As a result, low achieving students can receive help quicker and enjoy less restrictive interventions…

which engaged all of them into the next reading that involved a dark and scary setting. She has built her classroom as a literary community by welcoming the opinions of her students and ensuring that everyone’s contribution is…

During Theme Three of reading, we will be focusing on inferencing and the students will be introduced to gestures so that they will remember what pieces go into to making an inferencing. The gestures encourage all the students to engage in the lesson by moving to reinforce the…

through picture book reading The primary way to develop vocabulary is through reading. When I was young, I was taught to look up words, copy their definitions from the dictionary and then memorize them. Teachers have dictation assessment regularly to check our words spelling. I do not want to teach vocabulary in this passive way as passive learners lack motivation to learn. Passive learners perceive learning, especially learning a foreign language, to be torturous. By reading picture books,…

Section One: Reading Strategies Comprehension: Strategy 1: Visualize- Visualizing is the ability to create pictures in our head based on text we have read. Students will develop mental images of what they are reading. Visualizing activities including differentiated instruction: • Read a few pages of a book without showing any pictures. Stop and let the children draw a picture of what they are visualizing. Some students may need to search for pictures to cut out of magazines to explain their…