Reading comprehension

She lacks vocabulary knowledge, meaning and comprehension, which are key elements to develop grammar and sentence structure. Her Fourth grade teacher Mrs. K (pseudo), developed a journal for her to write difficult words that she encounters while she is reading. She also encourages her to write the meaning of such words. Celestine takes her journal everywhere, including when she is on I-Ready. Keeping…

organizers in reading has been shown to increase reading comprehension (Kim, Vaughn, Wanzek, & Wei, 2004). Attainment incorporates graphic organizers into the text to supplement student learning. Where the visuals fail, the graphic organizers can fill in the gaps so students are able to more fully comprehend the content. When possible, teachers can also incorporate content area texts, like Attainment’s history texts, into reading intervention strategies to help improve specific reading deficits…

The Author use the theme “Understanding conceptual change” for the “Fish is Fish” tale. The idea behind this story in relation to learners is that many students may learn new information and they may seem to have comprehension of the material but in fact, they do not. The main argument is that this creates a sense of bewilderment due to students misrepresenting the information in their mind to make pseudo-sense of it. There illusory understanding may derive from their…

Before reading this text, I will meet with my ELL students to develop lesson plan more specific than the rest of the group may need. I know that being able to summarize will help ELLs with reading, so I know this activity will be a great activity as they can draw and write what they read about the story. The students will be able to draw the main events in the story according to the timeline (boxes) of events they construct on their worksheet. If the ELLs struggled with reading, then there is…

from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification, word attack, and word comprehension. Derek struggles with identifying and blending beginning, middle, and ending…

PTE Academic Reading? Skimming and scanning are the two most popular strategies used for speed reading in the reading section of the PTE Academic. People who can skim and scan are flexible readers. They are able to read the important information from a text according to their purpose and get what they need without wasting much time. In this article, we will discuss the difference between skimming and scanning and how to use these techniques to do speed reading in PTE Academic reading. What…

Literacy is becoming a problem with this new generation since they are having issues with motivating them to read. Students in early education are learning reading strategies with physical books which most of the test now are online bases. We need to change learning methods into the new world of technology to promote literacy. We need to understand the theory of electronic learning so that we can use those methods to promote literacy and to increase knowledge of different subjects. Merchant,…

Karen Rosenberg in her article “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” presents students an effective method to complete assignments which are research-based. Along with certain ways of addressing assigned readings, the specific strategies which Rosenberg offers, give students new techniques of evaluating the relevance of sources to their particular research projects. Above all, the author emphasizes the necessity of determining the audience of a reading. Then, Rosenberg…

Every individual has a unique learning style; which often correlates to their preferred reading strategies. Some people prefer E-books while others prefer paper. This however depends on the preference of the reader, some claim E-books are distracting with the temptation of the internet being a click away, while others debate that the constant flicking through pages preoccupies them from fully engaging with the material (Baggini, p.2). While there are a variety of options to choose on how to read…

and ECP teacher would serve on the selection team. The school counselor and the media coordinator, would be able to identify books that could serve small groups. These groups would be able to meet with the media coordinator and the counselor for reading clubs. The books could be read aloud with the media coordinator and the counselor. The counselor and media coordinator could work together with the counselor leading the group’s…