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her difficulties in reading and spelling. TR has difficulty in identifying the sounds in spoken words as well as the ability to manipulate these sounds. She has an underlying difficulty with phonological processing speed indicating that she has a problem with her verbal working memory, her ability to retrieve and articulate language quickly. The awareness of sound structure underpins literacy skills. TR also has problems with her speed of visual processing which affects her reading and writing…

Strategic Writing Chapter Two Response In chapter two of Strategic Writing, Deborah Dean writes that successful writing is only accomplished with inquiry (23). Dean argues that we need to push students to investigate new ideas, rather than rely on what they already know (24). A big idea Dean tackles is that our knowledge comes from our experiences (23). Dean suggests supplying students with ample experiences in the classroom to build knowledge (25). When students are more knowledgeable, their…

between Linnea Ehri’s theory of reading development stages along with the educational construct of [being taught] fluency. The key question that the author is addressing is formed into two separate questions. The first question is, “What is fluency?” The second is question is, “How will Ehri’s four stages of reading development along with outside educational teaching resources affect the teacher practice and/or modeling as well as the progression of a student’s reading capabilities in the…

The chart below gives a brief overview of the ten components, and whether or not they are being met in this particular classroom in Northfield. As clearly stated in the chart, the ten components Tompkins’ uses to evaluate curriculum are: reading, phonics, reading and writing strategies, vocab, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing, and selling. The classroom in which I have been placed has aspects of all but 2 of the components in the ELA…

My first memory of reading and writing dates back to my kindergarten days when I could sit there in class and listen to my kindergarten teacher read to use. The teacher read slowly and showed us picture so as make sure that we understood what she was reading to us. She read to us for a number of times and now our turn to practice reading and writing came. I started learning how to write letters, words and finally composing sentences. Spelling was not my thing as I always struggled to get the…

One of Gordon Allport’s important concepts included functional autonomy. Functional autonomy is “where people begin a behavior, such as reading, because they have to, but continue the habit later because it has become enjoyable” (Grand Canyon University, 2015). Additionally, I do think that Allport’s concept of functional autonomy has its truths behind it. Specifically, an instance in my life where functional autonomy presented itself was when I was a child and I did not like to read. I did not…

Two examples of other informal reading assessments are the Phonics Mastery Survey and Phonemic Awareness Assessments. The Phonics Mastery Survey is an informal tool for assessing various phonics elements. This assessment measures a student’s ability to recognize consonant sounds, rhyming words, consonant digraphs, long vowel sounds, words with CVC patterns, consonant blends, variant vowel sounds, and syllables in words (DeVries 2011 p.112). A student’s ability to use knowledge of sound/letter…

Seuss due to it being one of my favorite bed time stories when I was around four or five. I can still imagine the sound of my mother’s voice reading to me and my younger brother as my heart beat began slowing down and I drifted off into sleep. Her voice was sweet and calm, never loud but never too quiet, just perfect. On the way home that bright sunny day my heart was racing, my toes were tapping…

Jay-ce is a 5-year-old kindergartener diagnosis with ASD. She is an only child. Jay-ce is in a general education class but gets support in math and reading by me, the ESE support teacher. As a five-year-old there are a few milestones she should be able to do. For language Jay-ce should be able to recall part of a story, and speaks sentences of more than five words, for cognitive milestones, she should be able to count ten or more objects. For social and emotional milestones, Jay-ce want to be…

Art therapy is essentially the marriage of two disciplines. The blissful combination of art and psychology make for a delightful field of study. Aspects of visual arts, the creative process, human development, behavior, personality, and mental health, among others, are important to the definitions and scope of art therapy. I myself am an artist. To bring this to a more personal note, I am going to take you back down when I was a tiny tot, and just beginning to read and write. I was…