Phonics

Being a graduating senior at Cook High School, I have attended school for approximately 2,324 days. As Ray LeBlond, member of Vancouver 2010 Speaker’s Bureau, famously said, “You learn something new everyday.”. Borrowing LeBlond’s ideology, I have roughly learned over two thousand lessons from school and my teachers alone. To say that one was somehow more valuable than the others would simply not be true for they all have shaped me into the person that I am today. However, describing every…

What are the best practices for modifying reading instruction for ELL learners? To first answer this question, there has to be an understanding of what is an ELL learner. ELLs, are students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English. These students often come from non-English-speaking homes and backgrounds, and who typically require specialized or modified instruction in both the English language and in their academic courses. Much of the time, students are…

ICR Reading class. He has good initial background information and can apply his outside knowledge when reading texts in class. He contributes to class discussion, and will add details from his personal experiences when applicable. Based on the CORE Phonics Survey - Reading and Decoding administered on November 9, 2016, Hunter is reading at 123 wcpm wcpm with 100% accuracy. The CORE Vocabulary Screening (6th grade) was also administered and he scored 26/30 (Benchmark level). A Student who scores…

Standard 4: Uses strategies to deliver instruction that meets the multiple learning needs of students. 4.1 Learning Disabilities Practicum Journal- This artifact demonstrates that I am able to use many different strategies as they relate to reading, writing, and math when I teach my special education students. 4.2 Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Plan- This intervention plan demonstrates that I have used a problem solving strategy to help reduce behavioral occurrences with one of my IEP…

should have a general vocabulary knowledge and decoding ability to gain the knowledge in morphology and affixes and this knowledge increase from third grade to high school. They also have to have the knowledge of phonics instruction.…

booster lessons in Maths and English, which had a positive impact in bridging knowledge gaps and aiding the children in successfully completing their SATs. I also provided interventions in Maths, English and Phonics in Key Stage 1. My intervention lessons were successful, in particular within phonics where 9 out of 10 Year 2 children who…

system. Although language has an effect on other aspects of reading, since phonemic skills have such a powerful predictive influence from the time a student's enters school, we will go ahead and start from the beginning. Language and its effect on phonic skills. Literacy is one of the major factors if that indicates if a student will complete school. It will also predict high school grades as well as discipline referral. Students with lower reading levels have higher discipline referrals…

Aha! Paper Coming into this course, I had many preconceived notions as to how reading what taught and how students responded to this instruction. I thought phonics was the key factor to teaching kids how to read, that nonfiction texts were meant solely for higher level reading, reading assignments were best determined based upon reading level only, answering questions after reading was best for comprehension, and that our current academic system fails to actually teach kids how to read.…

Stephen Krashen said earlier, it is also easier in young students to teach them words and keep their attention. Teachers feel that they should teach the “whole word approach to reading by beginning reading with whole words and at that point moving to phonics “(Schantz and Zimmer, 2005). It is also said that it makes it easier for children to read if you take the picture and instead of trying to teach them the sounds that make up the word picture that you just tell them the picture.…

well. This observation was conducted during my reading practicum during the spring semester and reflects her classroom of students during the 2015-2016 school year, during the morning block that was allotted for morning meeting, reading, writing, phonics, and the first block of math. Her class consisted of 26 students of many different backgrounds. There were students in her class that had IEP’s, 504’s, behavior support plans, and pullout services. Many of her students came from wealthy…