Reading comprehension

Parent Concerns: Mrs. Adams has expressed that she is worried that Jessica is not doing well in school because her thoughts become “jumbled up” and that Jessica is becoming frustrated as a result of this. Mrs. Adams has also expressed that Jessica tends to speak softly when adults are around or in uncomfortable situations, but when participating in familiar play activities she uses appropriate volume. Language and Communication: The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals -4 (CELF-4), a…

1. Why is vocabulary instruction needed? • Vocabulary instruction is needed because as students progress while reading, the come upon hundreds to thousands of unfamiliar words. Despite being designated for younger readers, some books contain a lot of advanced vocabulary words. This abundance of advanced vocabulary words within a text may cause students to struggle to read, but vocabulary instruction can allow students to gain more knowledge that they can build upon, as well as provide students…

Not knowing, may cause frustration, social and emotional distress, low self-esteem, extra homework, lack of comprehension, and poor grades, which may lead to depression (Hudson, 2007). As stated before in regards to misconceptions going on today, teachers and parents play a huge part in this. Many will believe that students with dyslexia, which may not be diagnosed…

and discussing a book. The purpose of literacy circles is to turn students onto reading, to deepen their understanding of books, and to discover themselves as readers. These are all developed through being part of a literacy circle. Students are turned onto reading through literacy circles by having the power to choose their own reading. This motivates students. Many times students aren’t able to choose their readings in school, being allowed to turns students on and intrigues them to read the…

to master. From a young age students start building their vocabulary through several strategies. The most obvious one is of course reading. Children of all ages love stories and fairytales. They love to sit down and listen to their parents or teachers go on and on about situations that would only happen in their dreams. But as children grow up, their love for reading, more often than not, diminishes little by little. Either because they are not interested or because they simply have other…

Organizers 3. Explicit Teacher Modeling. “Thinking-alouds help students to consciously monitor and reflect what they are learning” (Metacognitive Strategies). This strategy can modeled by the teacher if they are reading aloud to the classroom. The teacher can stop in the middle of reading to verbalize his/her thoughts. Organizers are an important tool that can be used to help students organize their thoughts. “These organizational tools support students in the decision-making process because…

students to use their own interpretation (Curwood & Hassett, 2009). When I think of multimodality I think of jumping from one form of text to another. That could be in a literal way, jumping from bold text to red text. Another example is jumping from reading text and watching it, along with listening to it. “In the classroom, how the…

Lesson 1: [Focus student will be able to retell the beginning, middle and end of a familiar text with 3 or more prompts with 80% accuracy. Focus student will recall the characters, setting and key events utilizing sequence cards.] Lesson 2: [Focus student will be able to retell the beginning, middle and end of a familiar story with 2 or more prompts with 80% accuracy. Sarah will recall the characters, setting and key events from the text utilizing a song or folk rhyme.] Lesson 3: [Focus student…

Illustrated children’s picture books are new way of possibly conveying to children vivid events and situations and enhance their comprehension of what is going on. Children enjoy reading picture book because whilst the adult is reading for them it has features which enables them to physically engage by including; pop-up, flap, pull-tab and textured books. Imaged and words of different kind is combined in order to form narratives for children and therefore vary enormously in both function and…

immigrating to a new world. This book is very insightful! Excerpt (example): "Instead of finding freedom, these Africans lost theirs" (Talking about the African Slave Trade) Center Application of Text Strategies Description of Center Activity: “Comprehension: Retell Wheel” Students will retell a story. ELL / ESOL Applications: ELL/ESOL students will be given more time or asked to draw a picture of things they remembered from the…