Reading Is Fundamental

My future plans of becoming a speech pathologist can be accredited to my summer trips to inner city Baltimore, Maryland as a mentor and counselor for the Agape House Ministries. Through my encounters with a diverse group of children and an environment that was entirely new to me, I realized that I am passionate about not only these children, but children in general. In my lifetime, I want to impact as many children as possible, particularly by helping them work through speech and cognitive…

becomes proficient in reading, writing, speaking and listening skills and strategies. The goal of a comprehensive literacy program is for every student to reach their fullest literacy potential. For my population of students that looks different for every student. My students struggle with literacy. I have non-readers, beginning readers and more advanced readers in my classroom but none near grade level. They need to be able to read, write and speak in order to make it…

My writing career has had all four of the Four Basics in it. When I was younger, reading was fun to me, so when someone would read to me or if someone was just reading out loud, I would listen. This gave me exposure to writing and made me want to write a little. Motivation was not hard for me because writing was just not my thing. Practice was something that hardly ever happened though. And feedback was something that kinda hurt me a little when I first started writing. Exposure to writing is…

very last sentance says, "The Pigman dies." The next chapter, starts with, "Call an ambulance," John yelling to the the attendentant at the zoo. The attendant says, "What is happening!" A book needs to be able to keep the reader's attention. While reading that, did it keep your attention? An important charactaristic of a book is to have a moral. The biggest morals in the book The…

Dick and Jane have helped many to learn to read since their stories were first published in 1930. Read with Dick and Jane: Go, Go, Go consists of three short stories each approximately two to three pages long. The Dick and Jane books utilize detailed colored illustrations to enhance meaning in the text. Using simplistic language, to provide the opportunity for beginning readers to read the books, these stories require illustrations to complete the story. The white characters Dick, Jane, Sally,…

with all my classmates and the teacher reading to us about traffic lights and what each color means. I cannot recall anyone at home ever reading to my as a child. I can only recall memories of being in school and my teachers reading to me or being at home as I got older, reading to myself. My parents always helped in my literacy journey but never read to me. I remember as a child reading books and understanding certain words and not telling anyone. Reading in around grades 1 and 2 felt…

Reading hasn’t always been an enjoyable pastime for me. My experiences with reading have had their ups and downs, but in the end reading has made my education hurdles a bit smaller. Beginning at an early age, my mom would read stories to me every night before bed. One of my favorites was My First Bible Stories, which was a book with my short Bible stories. Goldilocks and the Three Bears was another one of my favorite childhood books that my Mawmaw used to read to me whenever I would spend…

adventurous life. The early life of Jack London played a huge role in his writing. Jack, through rough times, found reading as a way to get through the tough times. 1. Jack’s reading led him to becoming a reader that studied and focused on the text. He wanted to understand what he was reading, not just having fun while reading. He wrote, [I] was an omnivorous reader, principally because reading matter was scarce and I had to be grateful for whatever fell into my hands” (Berkove 25). 2.…

When I administered the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5, I chose to work with (REAL NAME REMOVED FOR CONFIDENTIALITY PURPOSES) Izzy, a 5th grader at _______________________________________. Izzy is 11 years old and lives in an apartment in ________________with her mother ____________, her father ____________, and her 3 siblings. Izzy shares a close relationship with all of her family members. She enjoys going to local parks with them in the summer, and especially loves having dinner with her…

Imagine that some people were reading the Declaration of Independence, and they don’t know the first thing about cursive. They need to know how to read cursive to understand the Declaration of Independence, and they need to know how to write cursive to take notes from the Declaration of Independence. In my opinion, cursive should still be taught in schools today. First, cursive writing should still be taught because of your signature. Next, cursive writing should still be taught because cursive…