Reading Is Fundamental

As a child, learning to read and write was an important step in life. Our parents and schools made sure reading and writing was a part of our daily routine. Accelerated Reader-Renaissance Learning or AR, was how our teachers persuaded us to read. They made us take a reading test at the beginning of the school year that determined our reading level and what our AR goal would be. Each year our goal got higher and higher. We were to read a book, then take a ten question quiz over it in order to…

My earliest memory of reading may be like anyone else’s. Your mom comes in your room right before you fall asleep and reads you a bedtime story. As a child I enjoyed reading and allowed my mind to drift to a place of imagination. But when I reached the age of eleven my imagination and enjoyment of reading had drifted away. It wasn’t until my first day of 6th grade that I met a teacher who would show me what it truly means to enjoy reading and would change the way I lived my life. Walking into…

friend’s children were already reading. She would tell you that I had not a sight word in my wheelhouse. That summer my parents dutifully drove me to and from my soon to be first grade teacher’s house as she devotedly practiced sounding out words and recognizing letters with me. Of course, eventually a light bulb went off in my five year old brain and I could read. Looking back, it seems silly that my parents were so worried about my reading, or more accurately, non-reading. I was young for my…

I have dyslexia so it makes reading and writing as hard as counting every raindrop in a storm for me. I mix up the letters. in 7th grade mrs ward used to help me with Diary of a Wimpy kid and other work she would correct me and let me pick the books I wanted I loved Diary of a Wimpy kid because it's hilarious one of my fifth grade teachers didn’t understand they would try to make me read harder books they made me really mad and stressed my fourth grade teacher was thoughtful, friendly, generous…

Repetition is also very important when beginning Daily 5. It is important to have short practice sessions and then come back together and talk about how it went. This will help the students to nail down a few places that are best for them when it comes to reading independently. On the first day of school the author encourages the teacher to let the students look around and chose a few book they think are good fit books for them. This gets students acquainted with the classroom library and…

Hoping to find something to write about, I rummaged through the short stories I received in my four years of literature class. Although I never read, let alone considered reading any of the novels they required for us to finish, I insisted on keeping all the short ones because of how much I enjoyed them. ‘Harrison Bergeron’ was written in bold on the first line of the well-kept brown paper. I don’t recall the story itself but I knew that I wanted to write about it as I held the papers in my hand…

Literacy and Individual Consciousness by Akinnaso, The Dead by James Joyce, and The Dark Child all share a character that has a close relationship with literacy along with the impact it has had for the character and their surrounding. In the Literacy and Individual Consciousness Akinnaso’s journey in learning how to read and write, literacy as he states “ literacy had to come to mean, for me,a way of life...knowing,...talking, and a way of doing It gave me pleasure” (Akinnaso 154). Literacy…

finger. It seems like reading is something I've always known how to do. If it's something I've known for awhile why don't I engage in this activity more? My mom always told me that when teaching me to read I caught on rather quickly. This makes a lot of sense because it explains my personality. I tend to catch onto things quickly, except calculus. To my parents this might have been the first sign to them that I'd be a quick learner. As I got older I loved reading the American Girl…

Based on the interest inventory test, Shevaun has an interest in books relating to sports, family, friendship and jokes. I decided to use lexile.com to assist me with choosing books based on Shevaun’s interest and instructional reading level. According to the Lexile measures for his grade, Shevaun’s Lexile measure ranges between 360L and 720L. The results from lexile.com also shows that Shevaun can be instructed using the following books that will provide him with the most appropriate challenge…

educational events geared toward improving literacy. Government sponsorship for needy communities to improve the quality of life by helping to obtain and properly wield the tools for success. A similar philosophy should be heeded in regards to those with reading…