Orthography

You see literacy much more frequently in math now. The Common Core requires the students to be able to example how they came to answer using words along with the correct math equations and steps. With the enchantments of literacy in math, came improvement of literacy in English Language Arts. The teacher candidate observed a “Literacy Block” every week in her classroom. The class is reading “Woods Runner” by Gary Paulsen. The majority of the time, the teacher will read aloud to the students as…

Developmental Reading Memoir When it comes it reading, it is something that I often cherish and embrace. However, I have faced many obstacles to have the reading capability I have today. From humble beginnings, I was muted and was unable to speak my native language Creole or English. Which resulted in some delays in reading development. Once my family and I arrived to the United States it was difficult to adapt to our new setting due to knowing English or us not speaking. During my…

Important skills are developed through education and teaching children to read and write. Every human being has a background on their guidance or lack thereof, when learning and developing these skills. A considerable amount of situations are similar to what I encountered growing up, in the 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…

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…

From the very moment the students walk into my mentor’s English classroom, they are expected to write from a prompt she has displayed on her Smart board. She has set a routine and ritual that the students are accustomed to and allows for them to know exactly what to expect when they enter her class. The prompt is always an essential question that can apply to all of her students. The question initiates a discussion that engages the class and it also provides a connection to the topic that the…

What does reading comprehension mean? Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing. (K-12reader.com, 2008-2016) Therefore, simply put, to comprehend reading a person is making sense out of the information they are given. In schools teachers use strategies to help students learn the necessary concepts they need to graduate. Some of the strategies that teachers use are summarized below…

Child portrait: Gabriel (Cont.) Reading (Observations and growth) • Analysis of miscues on level C running record assessment taken on September 25, 2015 reveals that Gabriel relies on semantics, syntax and graphophonic cues to decode text. Though sometimes he ignores graphophonic cues • Also, running records indicate that Gabriel has the tendency not pronounce the middle and end graphemes. • Furthermore, his running records show that his sight word recognition is emerging. • A sight word…

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…

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz came from a poor family, which meant that she did not have too many opportunities to have an education since women could not have the same opportunities that men did. When Juana Ines was a little girl she had a passion to read and at the young age of eight Juana Ines began to write. Juana Ines still wanted to study since she had a vast knowledge with reading books and was really intelligent. Although she did not have an adequate education she had found ways to be…

Madiha is six years old. Her birthday is March twenty-ninth. Madiha enjoys reading books and doing her homework. She loves to play with her friends. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to…