Orthography

Think back to when you were a child, did you enjoy reading and writing, or despise it? What about now that you have grown up, has your outlook on literacy changed? Everyone has a different story behind their answers each of these questions. Personally, I never enjoyed reading or writing growing up. However, literacy has slowly grown on me throughout the years, especially since I will be teaching children in just a few short years. My first experience with literacy was when I was still a baby.…

I am an introvert. There, I said it. I am a complete wallflower at parties, even ones that I am hosting. I prefer to hide out in a remote corner or the kitchen, whichever has fewer people near it. I have been an introvert as long as I can remember. I am no good at sports. I can’t strip an engine down and rebuild it. My social graces are lacking, to put it mildly. Small talk either eludes me or drives me crazy. But words, as long as I don’t have to say them to other people, have always…

The title of the article is called “The Stop and Go Phonemic Awareness Game: Providing Modeling, Practice, and Feedback” and it is written by Jill Howard Allor, Kristin A. Gansle, and R. Kenton Denny. The authors define phonemic awareness as “the ability to recognize the individual sounds within spoken words” and it is a critical skill needed to be successful with reading acquisition (Allor, Gansle, & Denny, 2006). The authors discuss the importance of explicitly teaching phonemic awareness…

Learning to read is a comprehensive and complex task for children beginning to read. Children have to learn to associate the letter symbols with the sounds they make. In American language this can be a very difficult task because of all the rules of language. In order to become a successful reader, children must learn the letter sound associations and be able to apply these skills quickly enough to understand the language they are reading. Students who have a difficult time with this task…

When first starting out on our learning journeys we encounter many struggles. For many of us it’s the first time we’re attempting to read and write, but for some reading and writing has been attempted and not succeed. When attempting to read and write for the first time it can be really challenging, you may fail a couple of times before you get it right, but learning to read and write is one of the most important things you encounter when first starting out in your education journey. Without…

Based on student’s identified weaknesses, which students will benefit the most from the FISH strategy? Students who are identified as a struggling reader often times find decoding words the most difficult. According to Cooper, “a struggling reader is any student who is having difficulty learning to read” (2009). Reading does not come easy to every student. According to Aims Webb, there are four measures that take into consideration when deciding if a student has difficulty reading. “The four…

One of the biggest accomplishments of my life was to go back to school and get a degree. I did not want a degree simply for the fancy piece of paper, but for a strong education that would grant me access to a world full of opportunities by gaining the key of knowledge. I have learned how to overcome many obstacles while studying at ITT Technical Institute and also learned a few great tips on how achieve goals and become stronger at talents I did not even know I had. An important suggestion that…

During the time that I was observing in the second grade classroom, I was able to observe a few methods the teacher was using during the writing period. Writing periods are usually teacher directed and include prompts or copying words in cursive. The only time that writing is student directed is when they free write (during any free time) or when they are working in groups. Throughout the school day, the teacher set aside 50 minutes of writing for the students. The writing period was used for…

Reflective Journal During this reflective journal, I will be speaking about the work in which I posted on my York St John blog, focusing on the feedback that I received following my initial ideas and the way that I will develop my writing further in order to make it better. Within this, I shall speak about how the process develops from an idea and then further when somebody has read the work. Within the module, one of my favourite lectures and workshop was “Stage and Radio” that was taken by…

The first 12 years of my life I avoided reading or writing because I associated it with school work and if there was one thing I avoided at all cost it was that. My first year and a half of school was on a tiny island named Guam and the school was probably far, far below any standards back then. The teachers could spank the children in front of the class and my teacher in particular chose a whale bone as the weapon of choice. I think one of the hardest things was that we were not taught in…