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Karen Rosenberg, the author of “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources”, delivers a care-package to students who have trouble reading and comprehending academic readings. Before Rosenberg dishevels into her article, she makes it clear that her article isn’t for the student who can read and comprehend an article well. Rosenberg’s article is packed with tips that would help any student that has trouble reading scholarly articles. For instance, Rosenberg suggests focusing on the…

teachers teacher (Walpone & McKenna, 2013). Rather than having the reading specialist work with struggling readers, some schools are now asking their reading specialists to serve as reading coaches or literacy coaches, who provide ongoing, job-embedded training and support for the other teachers in the school to build their capacity and effectiveness as reading teachers. In addition to the requisite knowledge and skills about reading instruction, the effectiveness of the literacy coach likely…

born to one wizard parent, and one non wizard parent. One of the main characters in the book, Hermione, known for her academic ability and courage was a muggle. Many instances in the book showed Hermione’s challenges with being called a “mudblood.” Reading about her struggles with this reminded me of situations in my own life where myself or others were treated differently because of things we cannot control. Hermione’s reaction to these derogatory terms and her response to them taught its…

Why is it critical for teachers of reading to understand language foundations? Understanding language foundations It is critical for teachers to understand language foundations for the simple reason, they will be teaching students basic reading foundations. Many of these students will become struggling readers and will need to have the best reading teacher to help them become successful. I feel like this is such a natural and basic idea. If you want to learn a new skill, would you go to a…

was going to include in my interactive children’s story book. With my interactive children’s story book, I wanted kids to really get something out of the story instead of just reading a book. Many kids often learn better when they are using more than one of their senses. My book includes the use of mouth by the kids reading my book and the use of touch as the kids get the opportunity to dress all of the children throughout the book. What steps did you take to learn or do this? Explain what you…

busy, mine is too. However, I think it is important to set time aside for reading and practice. I may feel this way because I am a teacher, but I have tried to give families little ideas for how they can fit this in at home by doing minimal tasks. I know that I have students in my class that do not get this practice time at home, so I try to maximize my time with them at school by providing read to self or partner reading time throughout our day. I stress that this is their time to read and…

R: So you were saying that is a big difference between immigrant and Icelandic students regarding their learning process? i.e. discrepancies in English language ability. Big………………... hmmm Icelandic students are supposed to learn English during many years, and you know people from western Europe have less background and take longer time learning English, they are fast getting into to it nonetheless. Then there are some students that are very good in English …. And …..it’s such a large group, I…

Promoting childhood literacy is a small piece of empowering the broader society. Hosting a literacy event and encouraging reading at a young age can help develop language and comprehensive skills fully. The participants can be of any age and there can be 15-20 partakers in the class. If more community members want to participate employ the help colleagues.…

I decided to teach a Reader’s theatre piece over the presidents’. I choose this because I am currently enrolled in Children’s Literature and we have been speaking about different reading activities that children can get excited about doing, especially if it’s different genres that wouldn’t be as “interesting” for kids. Currently in my level ones classroom, they were learning about president’s and what they were known for, when they were president, etc. I decided it would be interesting…

technique in my Restorative Theme packet that seemed like it could make a monumental difference in the way I read class texts. This strategy is a study technique to use when reading class text; it tells one to mark different sections in the text that the reader may want to return to later. This is so the reader can progress in their readings as opposed to becoming stagnant.…