Reading Works

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…

age of four. Ethan had been dyslexic since he was a child and by helping me learn to read he was able to boost his confidence and ability to read as well. He showed me tha reading was fun and imaginative; that it could take early readers places and to see new things without having ever been there. His enthusiasm for reading is one of the reasons it became one of my favorite activities and I never wanted to put my books away. His teaching me how to read made me realize that he was an…

Literacy has always been an important part of my life, but in my early years, reading and writing was a tremendous challenge for me. When I reflect back on my childhood, I’m reminded of a variety of things, moments like going camping or riding a bicycle. But most importantly, being the oldest one and having to set an example for my sisters. It’s what I had to do since I was the oldest. If I didn’t advise my sisters on the right path since the beginning, then they wouldn't be as far up the trail…

pull up a youtube video for you to watch. It would be much easier and they wouldn’t have to think of a way to explain something to you. With all the access to technology the world has become lazy to the traditional researching and learning method. Reading used to be the essential way of retaining knowledge and information. If you wanted to know something you would have to pick up a book and read it. Today’s videos that are so useful in demonstrations of building used to be in a book and everyone…

faced with some obstacles that cause difficulty in reading. Being able to aculeolate between understanding the vocabulary and literacy is an important complex to know when kids are starting to learn to read. I have discovered that children learning to read can be hard if they don’t have early experiences with reading before entering school. Being able to have that exposure to reading early on can help children have a…

historical knowledge, especially in teaching and learning. This explains his interest in highlighting the history of reading research. His work “The History of Reading Research” gave a comprehensive account of transition period in reading literacy. It traces contemporary issues in reading research from 1870s to 1970s. The…

This activity had students view art images and “read” what was happening in the artwork. They would then discuss it in small groups and finally write it down. The students were able to expand their knowledge of what literacy and reading can be. They used different aspects that all incorporated literacy. They used the visual, oral and written form in order to complete the activity conducted. Students are exponentially increasing their interactions with different visual images that…

Rhetorical Reading Strategies Today’s students tend to forget about their reading assignments and tend to give up, I believe that if we educated younger students on how we read, in later years they’ll develop a keen sense for reading. The problem with reading is that nobody remembers what or why their reading, we don’t understand the concept of trying to comprehend a new, more difficult text. A recent article, titled “Rhetorical Strategies and the Construction of Reading” has been brought to the…

Project 1- Reading and Writing and Bechdel: When thinking about the way we read and write as individual’s, we often do not think of someone reading or writing a comic book, we often jump right to the conclusion of a person reading or writing something along the lines of a novel. Bechdel did just that, in creating her comic book “The Ordinary Devoted Mother” she wrote and read in a comic book style. She developed reading and writing as a recurring theme in the duration of her piece. Throughout…

The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In 1905 W.E. Burner published the first report of childhood reading difficulties in the U.S.. It was not until 1925 that an American neurologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton proposed the first theory of how specific reading difficulty arose. That was the true breakthrough…