Reading Works

narrative, my writing has to be about a significant event in my life that involved reading, writing, or language. With that in mind, it prompted me to mention my English learning experience in preschool and how my teacher has encouraged me. This circumstance has always been important to me because it taught me that being hardworking will ultimately lead me to my goals. Consequently, I hope that my story can motivate others to work hard and not give up.…

Where Has Reading Gone? When reading, Hidden within Technology’s Empire, a Republic of Letters by Saul Bellow, I realized how reading and writing are becoming less and less demanding. Nowadays when teachers ask for a volunteer to read, you would think the class had only a handful of students by the lack of hands raised to read the next paragraph. I wonder why reading is not being valued as much as it once was, years ago. When I was a little girl, reading held my attention more than anything…

teacher. Because of their efforts, I have improved so much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I learn more aspects of my own personality. From my earliest years, reading was an essential part of my life. My mother and my older brother loved to read. One memory of literacy involves spending time with my mother, reading The Little Ballerina by Dorothy Grinder. We would always sit at the end of my bed, and she would read that book to me every night. Just as my mother did, my…

but it also helps me to see which students can do it on their own, and which ones would need additional support. The Journey’s textbook are also district assigned texts that all the grades are using, I could use this to help students learning, by reading the stories from…

actually acquires literacy” (43). All of my literary sponsors fit perfectly into that definition. My grandma and parents would have been my reading sponsors, my teachers were my writing sponsors, and the school was overall my literary sponsor. Without these people I would not be the literate person that I am today, nor would I have acquired literacy. Although reading and writing is only something I do in the school setting, I am very grateful to have to ability to read and write because so many…

In learning English, there are four basic skills that should be mastered by everyone. Those are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening is the one of the most important language skills and also foundation of all human communication. “Listening is the ability to identify and understand what other saying” (Saricoban,1999). Listening plays an important role in building communication skill, as well as we know; communication is a part of human’s daily activity. Teacher as the facilitator…

His current reading level is short k-first levels. Fahad can perceive vocabulary in primer Dolch assemble. Fahad is getting better in phonetically sounding out unfamiliar kindergarten and first grade level vocabulary words. Fahad continues to work hard on his writing, he can place capital letters toward the start of the sentence and utilizing punctuation. Fahad can be excessively confident with regards to his reading anyway he struggles recalling facts inside a story…

How is the Decline of Reading in America Impacting Society? Recent studies show that Americans are reading less every year, and while we seem to be shying away from books, we are turning to technology for entertainment more than ever. Technology has many advantages and has made great improvements for humanity, but at what cost? What is it that has many Americans putting down the books and picking up the cell phone or tablet? And how exactly is this affecting us as a whole? There are many…

stronger at talents I did not even know I had. An important suggestion that quickly turned into an important task that I learned from my time in school was the importance of revising and re-reading my own writing along with revising my peers writing as well. I have learned a lot about myself by going back and reading over…

Cell phones are for sure one undetachable and necessary company of each citizen nowadays and they always come first on everyone’s must-have items list. Phones have evolved through the last decade, they do much more than a simple call and are basically our cameras, diaries, calculator, calendar and etc. Since the internet became accessible through phones, cells have shown how effectively they can influence our literacy and learning skills. In this paper I will firstly discuss what is literacy and…