Orthography

I have never had the passion of reading. When I was younger my mom would always read me a short story before bed time. As a toddler, I would try reading to my mom and make up little stories of my own. Growing up, I was diagnosed at an early age with ADHD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder). When I was not on medication, consecrating on homework or class work was always a challenge for me. Reading and writing has never been a passion of mine. The only time I would read a book or a novel…

The Less Travelled Path Based on the Myers-Briggs personality test analysis, only 0.8% of the population possess an INTJ personality type (Anon, 2014) and I am proud to say that I belong to this minority group. Honestly, having an INTJ personality brings a lot of advantages to my mental well-being especially when it comes to fighting my inner self-doubt. Moreover, INTJs are known to be “imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private and amazingly curious” (Anon, 2014) but they do not allow…

hand coordination. The child’s eyes feel like they cant see well with blurring feeling while trying to look at letters. The children who experience this learning disability will also confuse letters that look very similar to each other. An example of these letter are u and n, w and m, also b and d, q and p. The child can be seen holding the book or paper at different angles or closing one eye leaving the other one open. Something that can help a child with these disadvantages could be listening…

As a college student, there is nothing worse than getting an essay returned to from your professor with red markings labeling grammatical errors. As we learned, proofreading essays and reports helps us check for mistakes and correct them. One of the most common types of errors found is the “Run on Sentence.” This is often referred to as the grandfather of all mistakes (Miller & Whitehead, 2015).” Most people believe that it is impossible to write long sentences and be grammatically create.…

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes in spoken words. Before children learn to read, they should become aware of sounds. They should understand speech from sounds, or phonemes (the smallest part of sound in a spoken word). Phonemic Awareness improves students' reading comprehension and allows young readers to build another important element of reading. There are three main elements of phonemic awareness: syllables, rhymes , and…

R: So you were saying that is a big difference between immigrant and Icelandic students regarding their learning process? i.e. discrepancies in English language ability. Big………………... hmmm Icelandic students are supposed to learn English during many years, and you know people from western Europe have less background and take longer time learning English, they are fast getting into to it nonetheless. Then there are some students that are very good in English …. And …..it’s such a large group, I…

For the responding section, the students will be writing in a reading log for Aliens ate my Homework. After every two chapters, deepening where the chapters end, the student will write their reactions and opinions after reading or hearing the chapters in their reading logs. Through the reading logs, students are able to explore ideas, clarify misunderstanding and deepen their comprehension. (Tompkins 2014). They can also write new vocabulary they can latter on add to the ward wall. In the…

As a child I hardly knew how much my mother, a school secretary, and grandmother, a preschool teacher, were doing to prepare me for reading and writing success. As young as one year old, I was given crayons to scribble as I pleased and other times to use with guidance. They would take my hand to help me make cards and notes for my loved ones. At such a young age I was literally chewing my way through board books while exploring pictures and textures whilst listening to my mother read and…

This week for Literacy, children learned the Kk and Hh letter. Children came up with words that start with the letter, traced the letter, named pictures that start with the letter, and read their My Kk and My Hh book. Children revisited their Halloween writing piece and added more details. On Thursday, children worked on word writing and practiced phonics for an assessment. Friday, children made “fire fingers” and wrote about a firetruck in their poetry journal. For math, children…

The Story Behind my Learning I am a senior in high school which means I have learned, for 13 years of my life, how to read, write, look for details in a writing, close read, and how to fix my own writing. That seems like a lot, but I know that I still do not know everything about reading and writing. I can’t specifically remember the first time I started to read, however I do remember maybe in first or second grade, copying words over and over again trying to learn how to spell them. Then, I…