Reading Works

and discussing a book. The purpose of literacy circles is to turn students onto reading, to deepen their understanding of books, and to discover themselves as readers. These are all developed through being part of a literacy circle. Students are turned onto reading through literacy circles by having the power to choose their own reading. This motivates students. Many times students aren’t able to choose their readings in school, being allowed to turns students on and intrigues them to read the…

For my session two with Walker I used the same book Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure by Doreen Cronin. I read through the book myself while he followed along with his finger. After we would read one page I would go back and ask him to read along with me. I told him to talk just like the animals would. He thought this was a lot of fun. I picked out two sentences in the story for Walker to try to read by himself for my assessment. I checked the words he got wrong. He got most of the sight…

ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one 's goals, and to develop one 's knowledge and potential according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL). In colloquial terms literacy is the ability use reading and writing in the real world, and therefore there are multiple different types of literacies; political literacy, cultural literacy, digital literacy, and the list goes on. Is anyone capable of being fully literate, or mastering literacy?…

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: Rhyme Jump The teacher will provide the class with a one syllable word to rhyme. Teacher or students will provide a matching word to rhyme. Students will bend their knees on the onset (the initial consonant or consonant blend that precedes the vowel and final consonant(s) of the syllable) and jump on the rime (the vowel and final consonant(s)). In the word “sit”, “s” is the onset and “it” is the rime. Students should verbalize the onset (s) while bending and verbalize the…

My teachers told us to check out these books that had little-colored dots on the spine. They were called A R books. I realized these women were not playing games when it came to this reading subject. Mrs. Brown would take some of the other students back to the classroom and would have “reading table”. Ms. Mallard would keep the rest of the students in the Media Center and would read to them there. Most of the time I would go with Mrs. Brown. We would sit at this mooned- shaped table and…

of writing, speaking, reading, and listening. This holistic approach believes that the experiences of the learner — both newly acquired experience and prior knowledge — are what provides the foundation and subsequent growth of learning language (Patzelt,…

figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts. • LAFS.8.L.2.3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. Materials • Song from YouTube like Katy Perry “Hot N Cold” Specific instructional…

a more purposeful life. My route to this point in my education has been an arduous journey at times, however, it has been the most substantial, rewarding, and revealing endeavor that I have commenced thus far. As a matter of fact, it was at the Reading YMCA, where I was living as an SRO after I had completed the partial confinement requirements of DUI court, when I decided to investigate the possibility of obtaining a higher education. Consequently, when I divulged this to my support team, it…

speech impressed me a lot, and I spent some of my best days in reading books, especially of literature. I had gone through the texts of the modernist writers, i.e. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and David Herbert Lawrence as a consequence of my reading. Finding their writings very intriguing relating to class, gender, and race, feminism, and sexuality, I want to explore their (Fitzgerald, Woolf, and Lawrence) literary works, one text of each in-depth for a comparative study to pursue…

say that this book found me, rather than me finding it. I was having difficult time picking the right book. As I’m sure many of you are aware, a title on a list isn’t really much to go off of. One day I found myself in the library after school reading Catch-22. The book is probably good in its own right, but I might have been crushed under the weight of its 453 pages. Then, Mrs. Maynard the librarian taps me on the shoulder and hands me a copy of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She tells me…