Reading Works

children may begin to develop the foundational skills required for independent reading when they are much younger; but it is often the expectation that students will be able to independently read a developmentally appropriate text by the end of first grade. The decision for teachers is determining what resources to use in their reading instruction as there is a plethora of materials available to teach phonics, reading, and comprehension skills. In Text Decodability and the First-Grade Reader,…

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He can identify whether regrouping is required or not and is comfortable solving addition with or without regrouping. Hudson continues to work on solving subtraction with regrouping. He inconsistent in showing all his work and is most successful when reminded before solving independently. Hudson is able to orally explain the process but may forget to show his work to demonstrate his understanding. In our measurement unit, Hudson has demonstrated an understanding and is able to measure width,…

parent households and if the parent is working they may not have assistance with their homework. Therefore, most of the students prefer small group lessons, where they can engage in discourse and receive one on one assistance. Students had the chance to work in pairs and small groups, to assist each other with identifying similarities and differences in lessons one and two. Different texts with familiar objects in them like candy, marshmallows, and pets…

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…

job is to teach reading. Many students come to school not knowing how to read or are reading behind grade level and it is the job of the classroom teacher to help these students in their journeys of learning to read. The job of the teacher goes beyond what they do in the classroom. Teachers need to have a deep understanding of various theories and programs as well as a personal philosophy for reading. Each teacher will bring his or her experiences and personal beliefs on reading into their…

that are integrated during reading instruction are: guided reading, self-selected reading, writing, and working with words. During the guided reading block, comprehension instruction is given, during self-selected reading block is teacher read-aloud and independent reading, and during working with…

their content. For example, To Kill a Mockingbird was banned in some schools in America because some parents thought that it was supporting and encouraging white supremacy. To Kill a Mockingbird is a popular book all around. Plenty of kids enjoy reading it. Plenty of people would disagree with this claim. Do you think the people who thought the book was ok got a say in whether or not to ban it? No. They didn’t. If they had the book might still be in schools. To ban a book you only need three…

developments in multicultural education to the extent that the children deserve. Opposing views discuss that multicultural education is the reason students are not able to develop reading skills. Robinson (2013) said, “lack in students ' reading development has been due to the proliferation of multicultural values in reading material” (p.45) Robinson (2013) argues that Multicultural Literature helps a student to decode social, cultural, and political issues as well as begin to take a socially…

grammar and much more. As Erika J. Petersen explains in her article, Past Experiences and Future Attitudes in Literacy, “… It 's apparent that past experiences with learning literacy appeared to play a role in these people’s future attitudes toward reading and writing and that praise continues to change your attitudes throughout your entire learning experience” (Petersen 197). My mother always supported and praised me to do my best. She set the foundation to my literacy skills at a young age…