Reading Works

personal growth. Lacking the type of privilege Clare possesses in Abeng, Annie unknowingly opts for using her written language, rather than her spoken language, to shape her personal maturation. One early example of this is when Annie John, upon reading her textbook in school, stumbles across a picture of Christopher Columbus in chains. Smirking at this image of the oppressor in a state of oppression, she decides to “write under it the words ‘The Great Man Can No Longer Just Get Up and Go”…

experience however I was attracted by how a little can mean the world to someone else. I help others to simple help, not to gain as advertised. I got to see through the eyes of a child (ren) who struggles with reading when I was a reading Corps tutor this past fall. You get to understand how much work it takes to sound out a word. You get to feel their vulnerability and trust that they placed in you to help them understand what is being read. By the end of the experience, you rejoice in the…

Throughout the development of Literacy, there are all types of writing, from as small as a nursery rhyme book for newborn babies, to encyclopedias of the many wonders of the universe itself. Also in literacy, Writers can write almost anything to everything with the help of others that has the same motive or similar goals in mind when it comes to writing, which comes to the understanding of Sponsors of Literacy and Discourse Communities. Sponsors of Literacy is anyone that is considered with the…

Reading as well as writing has been an important aspect of my life for as long as I can remember. Being the key to good communication, people have emphasized the importance of these abilities to me throughout my lifetime. Although when I was young I started out with fairy tale books and word cards, it wasn’t long before I was introduced to the world of digital literacy. While my memory isn’t the best, there are definitely some pivotal moments which have helped me adapt to this new way of…

to master. From a young age students start building their vocabulary through several strategies. The most obvious one is of course reading. Children of all ages love stories and fairytales. They love to sit down and listen to their parents or teachers go on and on about situations that would only happen in their dreams. But as children grow up, their love for reading, more often than not, diminishes little by little. Either because they are not interested or because they simply have other…

people that were actively participating in my potential future workforce. I wanted to get to know them and dissect what made them successful, so one day I could follow in their footsteps. My interest in the study of communications began at a young age reading and examining screenplays, prompts, and novels in my grandpa’s library, as he was part of the Screen…

part of ENG 101 was the long essays towards middle semester to the end. I would be stuck after writing three pages and would go back and forth to make the writing reach the page limit. My responsibility was to arrive to class on time and complete the work on time. I would break up the writing process so that I would not have sit down and write the essay in one sitting, at the last moment. COM 101 was a new experience for me. It was like baby steps to public speaking. The most satisfying part…

it was time for me to learn how to read, books were my enemy. I look at the words not knowing what they mean and not understanding what my teachers or my family are reading. I would cry with the frustration of my failing attempts wanting nothing more for my parents to read instead of me. I do not think it was my own fault that reading was a struggle, but I believe that as our country economically advances, our society pressures young children to be educated in a too fast pace that they are not…

The article “Literature in the ESL Classroom” by Sandra McKay emphasizes the importance of using literature to teach ESL students, the idea which has long been neglected by many. In the article the author argues against the belief that literature plays little role in the ESL context. The author, in her effort to support her argument, also proposes how literature should be approached in a way that it can be successful for classroom use. This article critique will examine the author’s argument for…

The research of Dr. Melanie Shaw (2008) suggests the promotion of flexible grouping. This grouping needs to be with older and younger classmates and will promote “student interaction, collaboration, enhancing motivation by encouraging students to work through…