Reading Works

Section One: Reading Strategies Comprehension: Strategy 1: Visualize- Visualizing is the ability to create pictures in our head based on text we have read. Students will develop mental images of what they are reading. Visualizing activities including differentiated instruction: • Read a few pages of a book without showing any pictures. Stop and let the children draw a picture of what they are visualizing. Some students may need to search for pictures to cut out of magazines to explain their…

see the world from a different perspective, and it enhances our way of thinking. Reading different books help individuals to unwind their minds. There is something about stumbling while reading to concentrate on words which immediately take out the anxiety. Possibly it is simply staying still in a seat, something that doesn’t appear to happen regularly in our…

my habit for reading. Together, they have raised me with the outmost passion for the written word, ensuring, at large, that said passion grew and grows. As such, to this day, I usually allow myself a few minutes a day to read some source of literature or another, varying in a range from a chapter on a novel to a short story. Indeed, it has gotten to the point that there is rarely a day that goes by in which I have not read some work of literature besides those related to school work. In fact,…

dialogue because he often says whatever is on his mind, but it frequently turns out hilarious and gives his audience of peers a good chuckle. The literacy portion each day is centered around the daily five and in one station they walk to reading. The students work on a new high frequency word where they have to an antonym, synonym, a rhyme and write…

adopts the pedagogical principle: Reader Response, also known as the rhetorical approach to literature to incorporate literary theory into the classrooms. As Louise Rosenblatt points out, in order to produce meaning, the reader and the text should work together by engaging in a transaction, each influencing the other in the creation of meaning (Rosenblatt, p.29). For this, every reader is assumed to employ his background knowledge and experiences to critically analyse and interpret the text, and…

limitless. The five skills within reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension; all of which students need to be able efficient at in order to be a successful reader. It is crucial for the teacher to provide daily activities and instruction that supports the student in strengthening their reading skills, especially if a student is weak in one or more areas. The role of an effective teacher is critical in a student’s reading development. Phonemic Awareness…

Introduction Before a child enters school, the child has some knowledge of language and how words work. Children are innately curious and teachers in early childhood programs need to foster children’s early literary through research based, developmentally appropriate literacy activities that fosters the essential skills that students need in order to build the foundation for learning to read. A huge component of this type of instruction is phonological awareness, which is an umbrella terms that…

this year there are going to be many obstacles in English class, but if I just push myself I know I can reach my goal. As a reader and writer, I believe that I have grown stronger over the years. In the past, I did not like reading at all I would try to get by with reading as little of the stories as possible in order to pass. I felt this way until this summer when I started to read the books for English. I realized that not all books are boring and feel as if it takes forever to get through.…

Santiago's hardship and his desire to not be defeated. Like all great works of literature, the book inspired me to reflect on my own experiences. Despite being written in 1951, this book was not irrelevant. On the contrary, it was obvious that the subject matter was universal to the human experience. Suddenly, I wanted to read more of Ernest Hemingway’s work. With the misconceptions gone, I was able to aspire to a higher level of literary works. Hemingway had a powerful impact on my view of…

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…