Reading

aspect of a child’s educational foundation. The fundamental aspects of reading build a foundation for understanding throughout all educational curriculum. There are many skills that successful students possess, such as receptive and expressive language, phonological and print awareness, decoding, large vocabularies, comprehension, and fluency (Litt, 2010). In establishing this foundation, early intervention methods for reading problems can be the difference in a child’s overall and future…

stained by coffee, and I knew they had been held and loved before me, could entertain me for hours as I flipped through them. I could never remember a time I despised reading and writing, but as school and extracurricular activities took over more of my time, I had less opportunities to engage in one of the hobbies I adored most. Reading was not at the top of my priority list as I grew older, but I am grateful to my love for literacy for preparing me for high school and life.…

little moments of climbing onto my Grandmothers lap and her reading to me was the highlight of knowing that I had a true passion for…

Chris Tovani’s ideas to help adolescents in reading are specific to students at the middle and high school level. Feasible ways to help every student move forward. Strategies for instruction and ways to manage that instruction through learning targets. One idea from Tovani was to eliminate “fake reading.” Students can often make it through an assignment without every really reading for comprehension. To change reading from just decoding words to comprehension and construction of meaning. One…

Students in elementary school begin to advance in reading by first learning to read and later improve reading to learn. It’s critical that all students become strategic learners in the world. Students who recognize which strategies to use and when to use them to comprehend text are strategic learners. A few students use the strategies naturally while most students struggle to read the text with understanding. There is a desperate need for teachers to teach comprehension strategies to guide their…

Reading comprehension is just one component of the act of reading that is comprised of two primary components: vocabulary knowledge and text comprehension. Understanding when reading comprehension begins occurs prior to the mastery of reading. This continuum practice is developed through components that consider a child’s level of development, and individual knowledge without sequence. With every strategy are sub- categories that is strongly encourage not be taught in isolation but taught over a…

used to teach either ELL learners or students with a reading disability. One strategy that teachers can use to support ELL learners is called a quick write. In this activity teachers, will pick a subject to write about for a short period. The quick write focuses on a character, story problem, or a major topic discussed in the text. Specifically, with ELL Learning student’s quick writes must introduce key words and phrases prior to the reading. Picture walks are a great activity to help students…

Nealy was excited to start QRI Reading Assessment. However, before starting the reading assessment her word identification level needed to be determined. Nealy started from the very beginning with the pre-primer 1, pre-primer 2 & primer. She read those words without skipping a beat. Next, she read the first level words. Her level of automatic was independent, 90% and her total level percent was independent, 100%. Her confidence continued into the second level words. However, her level of…

memorization. While reading, Mr. Jones and Mr. Bones, Mia became frustrated with the unfamiliar words such as “bites, dines, ties, etc.” She was focused on finishing the book and asked very few questions. One of Mia’s favorite books is The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which we read together. She had difficulty focusing on the story because she had heard and read this story many times before. She would flip the pages before I finished or held onto…

The article called “Redesigning Reading Instruction” is a very interesting and informative about what we need to change in the reading programs in the classroom. This article talks about three things: what differs but shouldn’t, what is the same, but should differ, and what schools can do. This article addresses the amount of time spent reading individually and even out loud are becoming less and that is not helping our children. Some things that need to be addressed in the classroom are who is…