Orthography

Authors David K. Dickinson and Patton O. Tabors the authors did not discuss phonemic awareness or how well students knew the alphabet; instead choosing to discuss the importance of developing oral language in early childhood. The authors believed that exposure to rich vocabularies in home and at school (or childcare), the child has a greater command of reading comprehension in later academic settings. Thus, the authors suggest three tenets of greater oral language skills: a varied vocabulary,…

I went out to a school to observe a classroom on learning management. My focus was to observe the children on how they were learning versus how they were obeying or disobeying the rules. While I was there observing they were doing reading and writing lessons. They first started with four writing worksheets. The teachers would put the worksheets one at a time on the board and they would all work together. When they are learning their spelling words the teacher had taught them songs and catchy…

Understanding Dyslexia It can be surprising how often dyslexia occurs within a population. Many people, from ordinary people to famous scientists to actors have been diagnosed with dyslexia; Orlando Bloom and Alexander Graham Bell are two of the long list of people. Despite their disabilities, these people have been able to live successful lives. Even Agatha Christie, the talented writer of sixty-six detective novels and six romances, was able to overcome this manageable condition. While many…

Setting word limits is so stupid and it is only as good as it is concise right? So if I’ve concisely made my point in like two thousand words, why are you gonna force me to write three thousand words of crap? For example, one of the assignments would be to write what carpet is in a maximum of twenty words. I write “Carpet is a soft material usually laid on floors to offer a soft surface on which to pleasantly walk.” Now do the same but write two hundred words. Like you get to the point where you…

This week’s tutoring session required me to work with a third grade girl. She needed help on her spelling words, because she had an upcoming spelling test that week. We started going over the spelling words, but she was taking a long time to answer me. The next alternative we chose to do was I call them out to her and she writes them on a paper. That was a huge difference in quickness. I tried to help her out as much as possible, but I could tell she did not care as much as she needed to about…

2. Multiple Oral Re-Reading (Moyer, 1979) Let’s start off by looking at the Multiple Oral Re-Reading treatment, which was first used by Moyer (1979) in a patient with pure dyslexia. MOR is a text base reading treatment, where patients are instructed to read a passage from Scientific Research Associates Reading Laboratory series (SRA; Parker & Scannell, 1998) aloud during a weekly (?) session with their therapist. The SRA series is divided into 12 levels of text, each which have 12 passages.…

Fluency is one of the several critical factors necessary for reading comprehension. 11 Fluency is important but on the other hand there are people out there like myself, who have succeeded in reading and my fluency rate was terrible. Comprehension was always low and the teachers were worried, If a student has the drive then they will succeed with or with fluency. Oral reading is one of the instructional approaches to increase fluency. 12 Oral reading is one way to instruct students but as long…

“Facta-Non-Verba: Deeds not Words,” I read those words online when I researched the fraternity, and was immediately impressed with the meaning that they convey. However, it was not until the information session, where I heard the words aloud, did they really impact me, and caused me to pause in consideration. Some words carry a certain power that causes inflection and reflection when spoken aloud. When I heard the phrase aloud, I honestly felt moved, and inwardly remembered back to when I was…

I do not know you on a personal level or any other level for that matter. However you believe that you know my family. My baby sister was Kathryn Steinle, you know the woman whose murder you are using to help further your campaign and prove opinions. I guess I am going to have to speak about her in the past tense now but you already know that don’t you? I am writing this letter today because I want to talk to you about what you are doing and how much of an impact your actions are having on my…

The third activity in which Allison and I completed was practice with writing lowercase letters as part of the language domain. After reviewing the previous week’s take home activity, it was clear that Allison preferred writing with capital letters rather than lowercase which suggested she needed more practice with learning lowercase letters. For this activity, I cut small orange pumpkins and wrote each lowercase letter of the alphabet on the pumpkins and mixed them up in the pile. Allison…