Reading Works

Literacy Rollercoaster Every young student gets excited for the book fair, even if they don’t like reading, there are lots of fun erasers and pencils to look at or get. I was one of those kids that gazed at the book catalog to create a wishlist of books. I wanted every single book, the scary books, funny books, even comics. The book fair is what blossomed my love for books and reading. I loved how the books were presented and displayed. I got so psyched to read the new books they had to offer.…

This article discusses the design process of a web reading tool called the Critical Web Reader (CWR). The CWR is an installed software piece that enables a student to have the internet open along with a lens. The lens is a set of questions and activities that guide students through specific online reading tasks. These lenses are created to increase comprehension skills like summarizing, evaluating claims, and synthesizing. Teachers can use already created lenses or design their own based…

The literacy conference was a great experience. It opens my mind to new ideas and strategies I can use in my classroom. I honestly believe reading is the most important facet of education. It is the basis for all other knowledge to grow. I believe that learning to read well is a key part of being successful in life. Furthermore, when students learn to enjoy reading they will find easier to love learning. The conference brought together great speakers. I was educated and inspired by their ideas.…

home from work. I then had to wake up my mom, she worked third shift, to eat dinner with us. After dinner, I had to clean up the kitchen and do the dishes by hand. Only then I could work on my homework. I also told her about my difficulties with reading and writing reports about what I had read. She asked me to read aloud out of the book we were reading and I did. I read the first two pages out of the story and right then she understood what I was talking about. I was not reading to my…

learning challenges. In a "normal" classroom, it may not be possible to always give special attention , however, individual help greatly helps work through learning challenges. I would ask that my teacher help me discover ways to deal with the frustration that comes with these challenges. The frustration is often a huge factor in not being able to complete work. 3. When working with student who have learning challenges, I would first teach explicitly. Teaching explicitly would take some of the…

kindergarten as a non-reader. I was the eldest child in my family with two younger siblings. My mother was always occupied both with work and with three children under five, so she didn’t realize that there was anything amiss until the summer after my kindergarten year. She recounts how she was shocked and concerned when she found out that all of her friend’s children were already reading. She would tell you that I had not a sight word in my wheelhouse. That summer my parents dutifully drove me…

Students are learning every day this is why print concepts are important to students. When teachers use print concepts it helps with the student’s fluency when they are reading. It also helps with the student’s accuracy while reading. Concepts are important for the reason that it teaches students how reading works. I have researched 10 different strategies that teach print concepts. The first one is graphic organizers. Graphic organizers are important because they help students understand things…

cues are vital aids for their comprehension. When children are young they start off by ‘reading’ the pictures as a strategy for developing an understanding of what is happening in stories and use those as explanations for the vocabulary used (Raising Children Network, 2014). Without these, children have no real means of actually making sense of the text read. Therefore, in order to educate our children fully in literacy, we need to include picture books in their repertoire. (Bearne,1999).…

Hanna is illiterate and can 't defend herself properly. She is embarrassed at the fact that she is illiterate and does not want to let anyone know of her inability. This story helps bring back memories too when I was in 1st grade and had trouble reading. Remembering the fact that all my classmates could read perfectly and were a head of me made me feel very embarrassed and inferior. This story reflects not just on myself…

After reviewing the reading rockets website, I found that the 5 components of beginning English reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, including oral reading skills and reading comprehension strategies. Beth Antunez, author of English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction, says using these 5 components teachers can really reach their students who struggle with English reading development. The first component of the…