Phonics

The analysis of Kamil’s classroom work, test scores, as well as brief interviews I conducted with him in English and Polish indicate Kamil’s quick acquisition of the second language. According to several research studies, children who are taught to read and write in both their first and second languages at the same time, were successful in learning the second language (Slavin & Cheung, 2005). When Kamil moved to the U.S., he had already had a strong foundation of his first language, and what is…

90, 2010). The No Child Left Behind Act also mandates school districts to help all children achieve academic success (Wolf Nelson, pg. 91, 2010). Academic success includes “five essential components” which are phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, reading fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension (Wolf Nelson, pg. 92, 2010). Amanda’s needs fall within two of these five components, as stated in the case history, which are limited vocabulary and text…

Classroom/Academic – 4/17 Cristofer is a kind and caring fifth grade student with a fun and easy-going personality. Cristofer enjoys participating in class and works best for positive feedback. Cristofer often struggles with focus and attention, but does better when he is given consistent positive reinforcements. When Cristofer knows he is doing a good job, he gets excited and will often ask if he can give a fist bump. In the moments where Cristofer is focused and on task, he is often able to…

I am applying for the role of a Year 1 teacher in your school as, after looking through the school’s website, I believe that I would be an outstanding addition to your staff. I feel this as the values and practices of your school are a great reflection of my own. As well as being dedicated, hard-working and extremely passionate about teaching, I trust that I would work effectively in your school in particular due to the emphasis on everyone working as one team. One piece of feedback from my…

Political Influence: School Board Meeting I attended the school board meeting on Tuesday the twentieth of September. While I was there I realized how school board meetings have a huge impact on the students and families that are living in the area. A school board meeting can have a positive and a negative impact on the students and families concerning academic and extracurricular activities. While I was at the school board meeting an award was given to a young girl who was…

In this lesson Ms. Formoso was teaching her students about figurative language. Students have read some poems before, and now they will work in small group to complete an activity that involves figurative language. She begins by stating the objective and making sure the students understand it. She then activates prior knowledge, which provides scaffolding and allows the students to engage with the topic. She then guides the students through a discussion about poetry and figurative language. With…

1. Introduction Language serves more purposes than just to communicate ideas from person to person. Language can be both seen and heard. Language can be written or spoken. Speech is described by Crystal (2005, p. 1) to be phonic. Writing is graphic. Crystal (2005, p. 1) speaks of the elements of language as having a physical bond. One cannot begin to write if they are not first familiar with oral language (Gee & Hayes, 2011, p. 57). Likewise, one cannot understand language if one cannot…

Inclusion Plan-of-Action Most people think of inclusion as something only for the special education students, but I believe that every student in the general education classroom should have access to inclusion. The textbook Those Who Can, Teach, defines it as, “… the commitment to educate each child, to the maximum extent appropriate, in the regular school and classroom” (Ryan & Cooper, 2013, p. 73). This is a good definition but I believe that inclusion is more than just educating a…

Nowadays, English language has an important role of our life. Edward Finegan summarizes this by said that “ [t]hough Chinese is spoken by a greater number of people, English is spoken around the globe and has wider dispersion than any other language” ( Finegan 1989: 77) English has about 400 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as 2 billion speakers as Crystal and David explains (March 2008), there are many people use English languageand…

status with that of the Negroes point to the fact of the universality of human condition/suffering. If the novel is juxtaposed with its substructure – The Bible - the aspect of universality becomes obvious. . The Carnivalesque nature of chronotopicity in the novel Jago Morrison, while explicating different aspects of the Bakhtinian chronotope states thus: “ The Dialogic Imagination argues that , in the wake of ‘the dissolution of the medieval world view’ (p.205) in which the theological…