Reading Is Fundamental

an agriculture teacher, I will often assign readings to my students to convey information and increase their understanding of certain concepts. Likely, I will have to deal with students like Cynthia in my classroom. One strategy I would use to help a student like Cynthia would be capitalize on her initial desire to be successful. The text mentioned that Cynthia had certain goals she wanted to reach during the school year such as improving her reading and writing skills. While goals are good…

Third grade reading time was the event that propelled me into reading. Most of my classmates would typically find a book that interested them with ease and quickly find a place to begin reading; whereas I would have an oddly hard time finding a book of interest. So much so that I developed the habit of just grabbing a random book, to give me a guise as a reader. As a kid I just could not get into reading for such a small amount of time, and on top of that the books kept in the teacher library…

by a teacher and/or a classmate. The videos and reading clearly demonstrate the advantages of collaborative writing. It provides learners with opportunities to learn and advance their writing skills through a discussion of the language they are using. By collaborating and following the guide of the teacher, students improve their language skills and advance far more than if they did with their own pen and…

I have never had the passion of reading. When I was younger my mom would always read me a short story before bed time. As a toddler, I would try reading to my mom and make up little stories of my own. Growing up, I was diagnosed at an early age with ADHD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder). When I was not on medication, consecrating on homework or class work was always a challenge for me. Reading and writing has never been a passion of mine. The only time I would read a book or a novel…

“In reading, a lonely, quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.”- Stéphane Mallarmé. I didn’t really enjoy reading until sixth grade when my teacher recommended I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I found this whole other world where I could relate to book and I loved that people weren’t riding dragons or making uncanny potions, it was genuine. So I went to the library the next day and went to the Realistic…

While looking through the selections of books that I had for summer reading, I wanted to ensure that the novel I chose was one that I could easily connect to. After learning that The Joy Luck Club was one of my grandmother’s favorite books, I immediately knew that I had to read it. Before even reading the first page of the novel, I could already tell that I would be able to pull an abundance of relations and connections from The Joy Luck Club because it is solemnly centered on Chinese-American…

chapter one, Critical Reading, from the book The Bedford Read, published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, the authors illustrate that critical reading “involves looking beneath the surface of the work” and “understanding the creator’s intentions” (9). The authors suggest that it is best to write while reading by underlining ideas, writing questions, and feelings. One should develop the understanding of the text by summarizing and thinking critically. A simple check list in critical reading can help…

Learning to become an effective ELL teacher comes from knowledge and practical application. While teaching my own class with ELL’s present, I will use the free writing notebooks, or sometimes known as informal journal writing, to support my ELL student’s learning needs. Informal writing is versatile and can be used interchangeably with different subjects as well as provide an positive learning environment, motivating feedback, and practice (Scullin, & Baron, 2013).…

On Tuesday the 29 of March I facilitated a socratic seminar with my classmates. The topics of the story were respect and values. Since I am not yet a student in clinicals, I had to imagine that my classmates were fourth graders. In the beginning, told the students what a socratic seminar was, but I think that I could have done a better job if I slowed down and related the book and not just cite the definition. As the other classmates presented they told us what grade level they were teaching,…

The Less Travelled Path Based on the Myers-Briggs personality test analysis, only 0.8% of the population possess an INTJ personality type (Anon, 2014) and I am proud to say that I belong to this minority group. Honestly, having an INTJ personality brings a lot of advantages to my mental well-being especially when it comes to fighting my inner self-doubt. Moreover, INTJs are known to be “imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private and amazingly curious” (Anon, 2014) but they do not allow…