Reading Works

Early Literacy and Bilingual Education for English Language Learners (ELLs) Literacy begins to develop long before children set foot in a school. Children start the process of language acquisition from infancy and continue to progress through the stages, each child at their own pace, until ultimately reaching some stage of formal literacy. Our role as educators, once these children come to our classrooms, is to detect where each one is on the Continuum and guide their progression to become…

child’s regarding reading and writing difficulties I would ask them for more details such as why they feel that the student is behind in school. I would try to understand what the problems are. First of all, as educators, it is our responsibility to understand why that parent felt that way, diagnose the problem and then help them. I would ask them the following questions in general, how much does the child read and write at home?, does the child have books that are on his/her reading level at…

informational text. The majority of my students come from diverse cultures and low socioeconomic conditions and they do not have resources at home or the ability to seek out available resources outside of the school. Adding valuable informational reading materials for the students to read and become inspired by will support the students in becoming productive, litterate citizen of our society. Students that are able to read informational text independently and proficiently are better prepared…

most common is dyslexia. Dyslexia is a condition that alters the way the brain measures reading comprehension, writing, spelling, and even speaking. Many know this as the reading disorder because it commonly used to describe someone who has difficulty reading. This is because of a complication with sounds and how they express letters and words. Sometimes pronouncing just one word can…

and complex words, the length, font size, the visual support and structure of the text. All of these factors need to be considered in order to provide the learners the correct text for them to become life-long learners, but as well comprehend the reading. For this week’s research, I selected three books for each of my literacy learners. First, I did the search for my beginning readers.…

Observing a mild to severe 3rd to 6th grade special education classroom. The students work in small groups with the teacher or a classroom aide. They are familiar with the routine of the classroom and the members in their group. As students rotate from one table to the next they are working on different activities as some of their peers. In the table with the classroom teacher, she would be working on sight words with one group, and then change it to practice writing within the lines for the…

extremely worrying statistic, because it shows that reading education programs are failing at preparing the youth for the future. As a society we put a full faith in these individuals to veer our future down the right path of education when they have not fully explored the path themselves. Yet literacy is under addressed and under researched. Another 21 percent of adults read below a fifth grade level, meaning a book comparable to their reading level would be Holes by Louis Sachar. While being…

(Laureate Education, 2014a) interaction with his learners, it clearly can be seen how the exchange of oral language provides the learners vocabulary to increase their knowledge. Through modeling and exposure to rich text were they can build after the reading has…

how reading books is the best way for one to gather and learn information. McCullough talks about the lack of reading that occurs in our society today, that without reading books, we are not gaining knowledge. He believes that if people would actually take time out of their day and read books, that we gain more knowledge than the internet can offer us. He mentions even though we have easy access to the internet with a touch of a button, we still do not use out time wisely, regarding reading.…

knowledge itself, however, he was still inquisitive. Learning was something that interested him and he devoted a great amount of time to reading and studying. He often was learning multiple things at a time. This can be seen in “Scholarship Boy” when Rodriguez says that he couldn’t focus on his dissertation because he was…