Phonemic awareness

to connect these different strategies to the various levels of questioning and student needs involved in Bloom’s Taxonomy (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating), the “Five Pillars” of reading instruction (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension), as well as the course text: Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning for College and Career Readiness by Maureen McLaughlin through weekly strategy write-ups in order to garner a better…

from 6 Minute Solution, EASY CBM comprehension passages, teacher created formative and summative assessments that are aligned with the Common Core LA and Reading Standards, exit slips, formal and informal observations, assessment of Fry words, Phonemic Awareness assessment for struggling readers and Words Their Way spelling inventory. Amy then explained that she differentiates literacy in her classroom by an instruction called DAILY 5. This instruction is where the students read to themselves,…

Learning Disabilities According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004), a learning disability can be defined as “a disorder in one of more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding on in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.” The disorders included under learning disabled are perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal…

Bedtime Stories As I put my empty dish in the dishwasher and headed upstairs for bed, I thought about the books I wanted my mom to read to me tonight. Once I reached my bedroom, I walked over to my little wooden bookshelf and began to sort through a variety of different works— from the informative National Geographic children’s books, to the classic Little Golden Books. By the time my mom had reached my bedroom, I had selected four books for her to read: two National Geographic books— one about…

The mainstreaming is very familiar to me, I myself was a victim of this, I was identified when I was in fifth grade by this time I was so behind my classmates. I was pulled out for reading and then again for math. That same year I got glasses which in turn helped as well. During my mainstreaming, I was hardly ever in my classroom and had a hard time socially as well. Then in high school, I went through the “integration” stage, I would go to the first few minutes of my classes and then go to the…

gives them challenge without making them fearful of future failures. (Margolis & McCabe, 2006 ) While volunteering with Minnesota Reading Corps we used the Great Leaps reading program designed for kids in K-2 which had students working with phonemic awareness, phonics, high frequency words and oral reading. The program did a good job matching students with reading material at their instructional level. Each student was given an assessment that would guide us where to start instruction with…

Since the introduction of art to society many millennia ago, the fine arts have been used to convey ideas, core values and themes to a captive audience. Whether that fine art is music, drama, visual art or any other medium, everyone around the globe lives and breathes art. Whether someone is a cinephile, enjoys Broadway, frequents museums, or listens to Bach in their car on the way to work, they all have one thing in common- they are learning and enjoying new concepts through a very powerful…

Background/history: Mr. Joel Rodriguez is a 33 year old male who resides in Turners Falls Massachusetts. Joel has been diagnosed with learning difficulties and secondary disabilities include; ADHD, depression, anxiety and slow processing which impact his memory, organization, attention, focus, reading, writing and math. In school Joel recalls being placed in special educational classes throughout his academic career. He stated he stayed back in seventh grade and dropped out of high school in…

that are appropriate for the child in order to help the child develop skills that will enhance her reading. In order for a child to engage in reading there is several areas that the child must excel in. These areas include phonemic awareness, print concepts, alphabetic awareness, oral language, reading rates (Nelson, 2010). According to American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) a speech language pathologist can indirectly and directly incorporate reading intervention into therapy…

Briefly discuss each of the student’s specific learning disability and what you think of the interventions that they received. The first child shown in Misunderstood Minds is named Nathan Vanhoy. Nathan’s teacher became aware of his lack of phonemic awareness. Nate does not have the ability to distinguish among the different sounds and break words into their individual sounds (phonemes). In his situation he spends a large amount of time decoding words, which affects his comprehension, reading…