Orthography

4 When I’m reading, I have a hard time to pronounce the word correctly. Sometime I found words that I never heard and I don’t know the meaning and definition of words. In writing, I struggle with organizing the sentence and grammar. These are my weakness in reading and writing. 5 The strengths I have when it comes to reading and writing is I never give up. If I saw a book in free time I will read it. It doesn’t matter what kind of book it is. When I am reading, I use google to find out…

My Backstory of Reading and Writing My earliest memory of writing is of when I started to learn the alphabet in Kindergarten. My first teacher was Mrs. Crowley, I remember writing all of the letters, singing the alphabet and nursery rhymes, and learning to spell my name. I enjoyed the process of learning and finding out new fun facts. I didn’t know it then but learning how to read and write began the foundation of who I am today. I love to read and I wouldn’t be able too if it weren’t for…

The process of learning to read can be considered one of the most important aspect of a child’s educational foundation. The fundamental aspects of reading build a foundation for understanding throughout all educational curriculum. There are many skills that successful students possess, such as receptive and expressive language, phonological and print awareness, decoding, large vocabularies, comprehension, and fluency (Litt, 2010). In establishing this foundation, early intervention methods…

Derek is a 10 year old, third grade student, who will be entering the fourth grade next school year. Derek’s results from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification…

William Meredith wrote a wide collection of well-known poems throughout his life. Meredith was highly praised for his work and was given the title Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. A great deal of his time was spent in the US Navy as a pilot where he was inspired to write consistently. And then came the time right before he wrote the poem The Illiterate. Meredith suffered a stroke in 1983 which left him incapable of expressing his thoughts, a crucial aspect that all poets possess.…

Before reading this text, I will meet with my ELL students to develop lesson plan more specific than the rest of the group may need. I know that being able to summarize will help ELLs with reading, so I know this activity will be a great activity as they can draw and write what they read about the story. The students will be able to draw the main events in the story according to the timeline (boxes) of events they construct on their worksheet. If the ELLs struggled with reading, then there is…

The purpose of running records is for teachers to assess their students and observe reading behaviors. Running records determine whether or not a student is ready to move up a level or stay at the same level. It’s an opportunity for teachers to be able to differentiate instruction for students based on their academic needs. It entails the teacher taking notes when the student is orally reading a leveled text. Part one of the reading record is the teacher assessing the student as he or she reads.…

1: Reading and writing are basic skills for every college students. These two skills are so important that every universities have composition courses for its students. College students are expected to read hundreds of pages long reading materials and write highly professional research papers. Every college students would say they know how to read and write. However, few of them knows how to read and write effectively. Everyone feel overwhelmed when they face hundreds of pages reading at a…

17/03/2018 Farahnaz Asad Ullah 9ENG:4 Reflection - [ ] During class, we have been studying the novel “So Much to Tell You” by John Marsden. My chosen theme is ‘Hiding your true self’; we cannot show our whole self because there are parts of our behaviours, personalities that wouldn’t bold well with maintaining appearances for social gathering and connections. Therefore hiding your true self is easy than…

Huy Trinh Prof. Dollieslager ENF 2 November 14, 2017 Reading Literacy Narrative Life is the world that we live, work and grown up day by day. But another world can be open for you in the books. The fairy tales, new lands, adventures, etc... you can read all those interesting in the books. I remember when I was a child, my mom and my grandmother usually read books for me. They always read before I sleep or when i sad because the tales about Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Little Mermaid, ect...…