Reading comprehension

learning difficulties as well as fluent and dysfluent reading and the reason why reading is difficult for some children (De Haan & Johnson, 2005). Of special interest is to understand neurobiological risk factors or end phenotypes for developmental reading disorder and how deficits in processes like auditory and speech perception, visual and audiovisual processing contribute to dyslexia, and more widely to reading fluency, reading comprehension and reading/information seeking in digital media.…

ideas for ways to connect different content areas. While content area literacy may not be easy it is important to a student’s success. Promoting content literacy is different from simply promoting reading skills. Content literacy includes addressing TEKS from all subject areas while working on reading and writing. As a general education teacher it is important that we learn how to successfully meet the needs of the students in all core…

It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives, and families. I choose to use the first 4 sections of reading for this lesson. A challenge in Spanish 1 is to keep high student…

aspect of a child’s educational foundation. The fundamental aspects of reading build a foundation for understanding throughout all educational curriculum. There are many skills that successful students possess, such as receptive and expressive language, phonological and print awareness, decoding, large vocabularies, comprehension, and fluency (Litt, 2010). In establishing this foundation, early intervention methods for reading problems can be the difference in a child’s overall and future…

complementary (2002 (1938): 59-61). Aesthetic reading focuses on the transaction with the reader. Therefore, it is important for teachers to know what happened in the reader's mind while reading, and help the reader to reflect on this reading experience. This type of reading is related to the private meaning, that is, what the text suggests to each of us. Our purpose is not that the reader memorize information, but live or experience it. Efferent reading, on the other hand, aims to obtain…

This can provide context for all aspects of the learning, through talking, listening, reading and writing (Winch et al., 2011). A once popular tool for spelling would be providing spelling tests for children to compete against their peers, however, it is important to move away from competition like views of literacy and spelling and start…

guiding principle regarding reading comprehension is that reading is always meaning driven. Without thinking and understanding, reading is just calling words. The reader must bring all he or she knows about the story or topic before, during and after reading. There needs to be an interaction between reader and text. The reader needs to question, predict, wonder while reading in order to fully interact and gather up all the meaning he/she can. Sometimes, it is reading for understanding or…

and proactive about his learning. JC shows an avid interest in reading. He tends to gravitate towards series books such as Horrible Harry or Marvin Redpost. His gravitation toward series books is an example of being a reflective learner because series books help support his comprehension work because the character remain the same and the plotline is slightly different. An ongoing goal for JC is to continue to build up his reading stamina but…

need to make to cater to all types of learners. I was deeply involved in the designing, implementing, and evaluating of my lesson. Before designing my lesson plan, I asked my Mentor what his students struggled with the most. His reply was reading comprehension…

2016, I administered a reading survey assessment to a 7th-grade ESL class at Bateman Elementary around 10 AM. The whole group of students, twenty-one total, participated in this assessment. Why did you choose this survey or inventory? I chose the Lisa Frase Reading Survey because of its simplicity and readability. Even informal assessments can generate ill feelings from students, especially those who might feel interrogated or judged for how much time they spend reading, or what they may find…