Reading Works

Reading is a complex development process which integrates varying skills, some of which are acquired innately while others must be taught. For some children, the process of learning to read is natural and happens instinctively. For others learning to read needs to be explicit and intentional. Children progress at their individual pace often based on their unique experiences. These experiences are analogous to the socio-economic status and level of parental education, number of siblings,…

Developing Reading Proficiency In the article Children Teach Themselves to Read, Peter Gray offers a perspective on how and when your children should be taught to read. Or, rather, why your children shouldn’t be taught to read. Unfortunately, many schools are still convinced that children should be inundated with methods like phonics so every child in one grade can be on the same level. The underlying problem with this is that children are individuals; different methods of learning work for…

assigned to a table to work with the other teacher. While others were going to work in a group or as individuals in their assigned space. After the children were assigned, I…

to learn about certain subjects, work on phonics and print awareness. In my pre-k class at Downey Elementary literature is used to inform students on important ideas and concepts about their own daily lives, and then teach students about vocabulary and things of interest. The teacher in my classroom uses books that are “based on the students interest” for read-aloud, and that they are not supposed to have “themes” per say. The books for their large group reading normally corresponds with a…

Five Areas of Reading Instruction Sara Cordes Mohave Community College Five Areas of Reading Instruction The five areas of reading instruction are essential to the learning process that all children must go through to become well educated in their lives as adults. Teachers/Instructors use Bloom’s Taxonomy and/or Webb’s DOK (Depth of Knowledge), when grading or challenging students in their levels of thinking. In 1956, Bloom’s Taxonomy consisted of levels of thinking, that…

to become lifelong readers and writers. The pendulum swings between excitement and frustration during our ELA lessons, which leads me to reflect on my own literacy experiences, and wonder and hope that I can give them what they need. My earliest reading experiences date back to times spent with family, mainly a group of cousins that I was close to for the majority of my childhood. My Grandmother was the matriarch of this brood who insisted we stay connected and spend time together as a family…

that they become reading interventionists (Buehl, 2011; Gunning, 2018, IRA, 2012; Reed, Wexler, and Vaughn, 2012). Wendt (2013) affirmed the divide between literacy learning and content learning, and the assumption that academic learning presumes the mastery of basic literacy skills. Therefore, the teaching of basic decoding is within the scope of responsibilities for reading specialists and interventionists (Gunning, 2018, IRA, 2012; IRA, 2015). Leveraging the work of the reading specialists to…

on the Internet, often reading many things. Unfortunately, the content and writing caliber of what they choose to read may not be high level or factual, therefore reading such material would not help to develop the literature skills of this individual. Reading, both for pleasure and for education, exposes the reader to high quality writing. It is generally believed that members of Gen X and Gen Y spend less time reading than generations before them. Choosing not to reading for pleasure has…

get good grades to come up with 5 resolutions that I may or may not accomplish. They are: Get better grades Read more Eat less sweet/salty foods Make the swim team And get out more Now the one I picked is reading cause I should read more. My reasons of choosing this above all else is cause reading is “important’ and builds a good “foundation” for learning. It also “expands” your vocabulary. LAstly, if you don’t read now you’ll have “trouble” getting through…

Weekly e-Journal # 6 Vogt & Shearer Chapter 10 and Bean Chapter 8 integrate the foundational guidelines for a reading specialist/literacy coach to know possible ways to develop a literacy program. Bean's orientation for reading specialist leads to provide guidelines for planning literacy programs for schools or districts; these guidelines encompass the awareness of possible problems of difficulties that the we can find when we develop this kind of programs, the knowledge of what effective…