Phonics

reading development stages start from a lower-level to a high-level, for instance: • Early Emergent Readers. This is where pupils begin, it is the first step of reading development where pupils learn the basic’s such as alphabet mats, phase sound mats, phonics and large print picture books. • Emergent Readers, this is the next stage of development where pupils understand all skills and tasks given in the first stage and can then go on and progress. In this stage pupils recognise diverse types of…

language. Phonemic awareness allows young readers to build another young readers to build another important element of reading. Phonics It improves student’s word reading and comprehension, it helps students learn to spell. It can be developed through activities like identify and categorize sounds, blend sounds to form words etc Phonemic awareness is not phonics, Phonemic awareness is ability to hear identify and manipulate individual sound. Phonemic in spoken words. Before children…

In 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr Jane Elliot a third-grade teacher performed an experiment with her students about racism. In the video, fourteen years later her former students who were in her third-grade class come back and watch the video to watch how she taught them about discrimination in a distinctive way. This experiment was conducted in two days on her third-grade students. In her experiment, she on one day made one group of her students the blue eyes superior…

Visual Literacy There are five components in how hearing students begin to learn how to read through five stages of literacy growth: scribbling, phonic rules, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and scope/sequence/curriculum. But there are two approaches in teaching students to read are either through visual literacy or balanced literacy. To many educators, visual literacy may take a back seat comparing with balanced literacy to teach diverse student to read. Visual literacy is often overlooked…

letter sounds, listening comprehension, vocabulary development (Lennon and Slesinski, 1999). Year one students would focus on phonemic awareness (Ehri, 2007), phonics (Gunn, 2000), Fluency (high frequency words), fluency connected with text (Ehri, 2007), Vocabulary (Gunn, 2000) and comprehension. In Year two, students are focusing on phonics, fluency with connected text, vocabulary and comprehension. Although the Response to intervention program can be implemented in later stages of Stage two…

The saxophone proved to gain acceptance when it came to America. Oddly enough, a woman by the name Elise Boyer Hall (1853-1924) was the first to perform on and let the United States know how truly incredible the saxophone is. She began learning the saxophone while she was recovering from typhoid fever. She commissioned many solo works from world renowned composer that had written for this new instrument. A few of these composers include Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Georges Bizet.…

“Every African-American is bilingual, all of us, we speak street vernacular and we speak job interview”. The crowd roars with laughter at comedian Dave Chappelle's words. But even as the comedian smirks, there’s something in his face that shows that what he said wasn't entirely a joke. What Dave Chappelle is trying to address here, is something that is controversial and continuously debated by linguists. That is if code-switching, alternating between two or more vernaculars in a conversation, is…

Challenge and endurance are the themes in my life, thus far. Some challenges I have faced throughout my life were created by me while others were due to involuntary circumstances. I believe that my background has given me the tools necessary to make rational decisions and persevere through different trials and tribulations, and I believe it all goes back to my parents. My parents have done absolutely everything they could to help me be successful in life. I can recognize this now as an adult…

The first component of a balanced literacy approach is reading. Learning to read is one of the most important skills children develop through their many years of schooling. According to Tompkins, to meet this component of a balanced approach, ELA curriculum needs to incorporate “modeled, shared, interactive, guided, and independent” reading experiences for students. (Tompkins 20) All of these aspects, and methods, of teaching reading are used in my placement. Each afternoon in my placement…

discusses teaching strategies that use students’ first language, Spanish, to scaffold learning of the second language, English. It also discusses certain areas of the English language where teachers can support Latino students, such as phonology, phonics, vocabulary, sentence structure and writing. Spanish-speaking students enter the classroom with pre-existing knowledge of Spanish, or “linguistic capital” which improves their ability to master a second language. In order to help students…