Phonics

My classroom observation took place in a second grade inclusion classroom at the W.L. Morse School in Tarrytown, N.Y. The classroom consisted of one general education teacher, a special education teacher, and a teacher’s assistant. There were 22 students in the classroom and eleven of these students had IEP’s. Four of the students were ELL students. Throughout the day students were pulled for speech and occupational/physical therapy. In addition, an ELL teacher would push in for math and…

credibility among the academic community. She began her lecture with a brief introduction involving her son, Sam. Sam’s fascination with Baseball jumpstarted his education; it taught him critical skills during the early stages of his life such as phonics through the learning of player’s names and their hometown’s. Over the years his economic prowess through trading with others ,memorization skills through remembering player statistics and batting averages, and his…

I was able to teach a small group lesson at Garfield Elementary School on Wednesday March 21st. The 6 students in my small group were able to learn more about the long /i/ pattern, reinforce what they already knew, and addressed misconceptions they may have. The lesson I taught went very smoothly, and I do feel that almost all of these students achieved the intended learning target. Each student was able to share words that fit the pattern they heard in Splat the Cat: Goodnight Sleep Tight, both…

this lesson is to be able to understand phonological awareness. If the students are able to master phonological awareness, then this will help them with reading, fluency and comprehension. If students do not understand phonological awareness, then phonics will make little sense to them. b. Key Concepts: The key concept of this lesson is to be able to identify and say the initial sound of a word and then be able to find the matching initial sound in another group of words. Students must…

According to this measure, Gianna’s Academic Skills Battery (ASB) – a measure of overall academic achievement in reading, writing, and math – fell within the Below Average range (SS=85), with her performance being above 16% of same-age peers. Reading The Reading Composite is a measure of Gianna’s overall reading skills, which are based on basic word reading, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Gianna’s performance in this composite was in the Below Average range (SS=89; PR=23). The…

Introduction After discussing the middle school challenges with the principal, we decided to turn the focus on increasing low reading test scores. I proceeded to collect data concerning the trend of low reading test scores. I also collected data of low reading test scores effect on the Title I Reading program. The state testing data collected contains information for the past ten years. Since this is my second year as the middle school reading specialist, the Title I Reading data collected…

In this subsection, an introduction about false cognates, or better known, false friends, will be provided. The term "false friends" first appears in the book Les Faux Amis ou Les Trahisons Du Vocabulaire Anglais (1928) by Maxime Koesler and Jules Decrocquigny. These authors used the following definition: [Elle] désigne les mots d'étymologie et de forme semblable mais de sens partiellement ou totalement différent. The term faux amies was used in the field of translation to refer to those terms…

He is familiar with many first and second grade sight words and knows some third grade words, but struggles to recall many fourth grade level sight words. When presented with unfamiliar words in a text, Angel will attempt to decode the words using phonics. If the sounds that he puts together don’t make sense to him, he will often substitute the unfamiliar word with a familiar word that looks similar or contains similar letters or sounds rather than attempting to use a different…

The objective of this 30 minute professional development workshop is to inform pre-service undergraduate teachers of useful strategies and interventions that may be useful in their classrooms. The intended goal is to provide research-based assessment strategies that will improve literacy proficiency in their students. Teacher preparation programs teach theory therefore, the teachers do not have the hands-on experience they need. By having this workshop and future workshops to keep teachers…

Most people experience unproductive and ineffective meetings very often, some more than others. While some meetings often produce many valuable results, many meetings are often considered to be a waste of time or ultimately have little value to the staff or participants when the meeting does not go well. Having staff meetings, especially in an educational setting, can often produce many valuable results. Effective meetings provide a chance for discussion, may have the ability to broaden each…