Reading Works

module eight we discussed the acquisition of language by children. This topic is relevant to my daily and work life as well as to my major. I work for a public library in the children’s department, and I believe reading can have a significant effect on a child’s development of language. Reading to a child can expose them to words, phrases and sentence structures that they otherwise may not hear. Reading also inspires a child’s imagination: a child will pick up a book and start creating their own…

have the common goal to assist all students in gaining the joy of reading. Reading can not only help students academically, but it can also help students find comfort when facing difficult life situations, gain new interests, making connections, communicate, and discover every aspect about themselves. Donalyn Miller, the author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, states it best when she proclaims, reading is a choice that determines how a person spend every aspect…

Relevance and Appropriateness of Core Competencies Three core competencies at Napavine School District are our K-12 reading program, athletic distinction and attendance expectation. Napavine prides itself on preparing students academically. One of the most important skills for a student is the ability to read well. We begin in kindergarten with Accelerated Reader (AR) and continue using the program through twelfth grade. Research from Renaissance Learning shows that “students who use AR are…

but hated to read to others. It was hard for me to pronounce words and it was more difficult for me to understand the words I was reading. All that changed after the bad experiences I faced and the help I received from the different people in my life. At home my mom was a single parent, working all the time, so she didn’t have much time to help work on my reading skills with me. She was able to read me a story every night, and that was something I looked…

third grade level due to his lack of understanding the phonetic system, which affects his spelling and basic reading skills. His phonics reading level is at a second grade level due to his difficulty with decoding words. He is able to recognize and pronounce familiar words using his background knowledge; however, he struggles when having to decode unfamiliar…

Albers, P. (2007). Finding the artist within: creating and reading visual texts in the English language arts classroom. Newark, DE: International Reading Ass. In this non-fiction textbook, author Peggy Albers notes the intention of the text is “to support middle and high school English teacher’s learning – raw and untutored, perhaps – in designing and creating visual arts and technology rich-texts, as well as reading and interpreting students’ visual texts.” The majority of this book…

and agrees to help his dad paint his old chair. The story is concise and to the point. It is able to get across an important theme, change is hard, through a short small moment in Peter’s life, when he tried to run off with his chair. Other than reading this book, we have modeled for the student picking out little moments in our lives, and pulling out the key details in the story. Ultimately, the children will take these small moments to form a personal narrative. The final focus of the writing…

company whose goal is to help boost confidence for anyone who needs help with reading or writing, whether it be for school or work. Texthelp has designed multiple different platforms to help the various populations of people and their learning needs, making the web, documents and other files on your computer more accessible at any time or place. One program from Texthelp is Read&Write Gold, which helps assist users with reading, writing, studying, conducting research, and staying organized.…

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 she didn’t throw work…

Reading is a very complex process and is difficult to teach to students with learning disabilities. No one reading program will work to teach all children with learning disabilites to read. Today, many students with learning disabilities cannot read or have limited reading skills. Parents, teachers, specialists, and advocates are extremely concerned with these results, because students are graduating without the abilities to read street signs, grocery items, or navigate around their communities.…