Orthography

Deciphering the Alphabetic Code “English language is an alphabetic language, and children learn to crack this code as they learn about phonemes (sounds), graphemes (letters), and graphophonemic (letter-sound) relationships” (Tompkins, 2014). Children learn the letters as they speak the alphabet and learn to spell their names. Children learn sounds as they use syllables to segment a word or hear words that rhyme. Children use graphophonemic relationships to understand how letters and sound are…

I want to include read-aloud books, a variety of games and manipulatives, audiotapes, and computer software programs to help them learn. I want to develop skilled lessons that will enable children activate prior knowledge, preview, predict, and infer information. I want to teach writing to students based on the pragmatic and expressive approach. I wan them to take into account grammar, text structure, and spelling. Vocabulary will also be highly encouraged in their writing. Even though they…

After teaching my two lessons on phonemic segmentation and observing the two students during whole class instruction I have drawn various conclusions on both the students strengths and weaknesses. Student A excels at being able to tap out sounds within a three sound word, as student B is able to tap out the individual sounds of words with 4-5 sounds in them. These activities however acted as review for the students being as they were exposed to these concepts in kindergarten. During whole class…

Reading is essential to everyday living, the failure to read will restrict student’s ability to understand basic Math, Language Arts, Science or Social studies. Students with reading difficulties need support for their deficit in a specific skill with different strategies. The two reading difficulties for ESE students and how I will address the difficulties in my future classroom are difficulty with high – frequency sight words using a multi-sensory approach that combines language experience…

Reading and writing skills are developed very early on in a child's life. They are encouraged to read whatever interests them and are given a chance to explore their talent in writing when creating stories and silly poems. However, I believe that school assignments, such as poorly lead novel studies, kill the curiosity and imagination a child has nurtured. While they do teach students essential lessons in literacy, incorrect use of the tool loses students to boredom, emotional detachment, and…

A girl sat on the edge of her bed reading a book while the sun slowly set on the far horizon. Suddenly, she involuntarily let out a little squeal of delight and clutched the book to her chest, giggling all the while. If someone had seen her at that moment, they would have thought her strange—but her actions seem justifiable, for she had just found an allusion to one of her favorite books. Authors frequently use allusions to make appropriate comparisons; also, it acts as a delicious egg hunt for…

Many African’s struggled to teach themselves how to read and write but many found ways to learn the literacy skills even though they were prohibited to. During the time when Malcolm X, Federick Douglass, and Richard Wright were growing up they were not allowed to learn how to read or write. Even though they were prohibited to learn those skills, Malcolm X, Federick Douglass, and Richard wright found their own ways to learn to read and write. I will discuss ways to improve my literacy skill and…

1. How did you select this research study to analyze? What search terms did you use? What database did you use? What was your rationale for selecting this particular study to analyze over the others in the search results? What is the full reference for the study in APA format? In search for this article I used the UNF library data base. The terms used were “deaf readers and struggles”. An article titled “Guided Reading Approach Teaching Reading to Students Who Are Deaf and Others Who Struggle”…

For most people, the saying, “You never know what you have, until you don’t have it anymore.” is something they hear a lot but never truly understand until they need to. For instance, English. Sometimes, as a society, we take for granted the basic fundamentals of what could propel us to success and greatness. In Homemade Education by Malcolm X, we surely see the outcome of when you aren’t knowledgeable in the English language and the great affects of when you are. Malcolm X expresses how he…

Range Analysis Introduction This paper analyzes the appropriateness of the text Live River (a short story consists of 1428 running words) for students who have mastered the most frequent 2000 words, but have not reached higher levels. Apart from that, modifications based on the data from “Vocabprofiler” are given in order to reach the 98% text coverage or more, so that students can get ideal comprehension. “Vocabprofiler” (Cobb, 2002), a software for lexical text analysis, classifies the words…