Reading

spoke English as well. I began to talk at an early age, and my parents say that I loved to communicate with people I knew. I remember when I read my first word at a coffee cart in Denver, and since then I have enjoyed reading books of all sizes. I don’t remember my parents reading novels when I was younger, but I do remember being read to as a young child while I at a snack before bed. Once I was a second grader I picked up books from the American Girl Doll Series and I read those chapter…

Music is not music without reading and writing. I am not speaking of reading and writing English, rather I am speaking of reading and writing musical notation. The real importance of reading and writing in the context of music has to do with actually learning the language that is music. This might mean learning how notes relate to a staff, or possibly how an audio clip fits best in your garageband composition, or maybe even how a 7th chord can put a whole new twist on a Sara Bareilles song (if…

the John Newbery Medal and Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award (Gary Paulsen). Although, Paulsen was never too fond of school as a child, he did discover that he had a passion for reading and writing. It all began when he checked out his first book in the library. Gary would read constantly. Reading was an escape for him when times were getting rough for his family. Paulsen never lived the normal childhood life. His childhood consist of moving from home to home living with different…

Karen Rosenberg in her article “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” presents students an effective method to complete assignments which are research-based. Along with certain ways of addressing assigned readings, the specific strategies which Rosenberg offers, give students new techniques of evaluating the relevance of sources to their particular research projects. Above all, the author emphasizes the necessity of determining the audience of a reading. Then, Rosenberg…

How Sarah Shepard’s Reading Head start helps your child master reading Your little one is a child only once and therefore you have this opportunity in their life to help them gain reading skills. Reading skills is an essential skill and once mastered, they will use it in their day to day life and in their academic life for life. Sarah Shepard’s Reading Head Start is a reading program recommended for children between the ages of 12months to 9 years. The program will help beginner readers learn…

As many teachers search for new strategies and interventions to address the lack of fluency within their reading programs, Repeated Reading (RR) appears to be a topic of curiosity. RR is an evident based strategy designed to increase reading fluency and comprehension through the development of automatic word processing and contextualized linguistic effect (Winter, 2007). Similar to the text features on a cell phone, automatic word processing is the ability to detect and comprehend a word…

Independent Reading: DEAR Time (20:00, (2x) 3:00 transition [get books, put books away]): (DEAR time means, “drop everything and read.” After the teacher has completed the guided reading groups. The students will come back together as a whole class and everyone will read for 20 minutes. Students will select the book that they would like to read out their independent reading group crate. The books are separated depending on the student’s independent reading level. There will be a colored crate…

with peers (O'Donnell-Allen, 2006, p.13). Since about 1979, round-robin reading has not been recommended as a teaching strategy in classrooms (Opitz, & Guccione, 2009). First of all, struggling readers find reading out loud to be embarrassing. Their reading can be hard to understand as pronunciation of difficult words is a challenge for them. The pacing when students read…

excited at the thought of getting new books, reading them and showing how much I adore them. My love for reading comes from my mother. My mother was the first person who taught me how to read when I was just three. She introduced me to different children books, encouraging my love for reading. She often limits my TV hours, so I can read with her. I grow up witnessing my mother read countless books every night before bed and that ignited my love for reading more. Unfortunately, my love for books…

Book and Literary Reading” table concludes that there are 10 percent more of the U.S adult population read any book than the U.S adults read literature. Also, the percentage of adults read literature declined 7 more percent than the percentage of adults read any book from 1982 to 2002. The “Literacy Reading by Gender” table shows that men generally read less than women, and the percentage of American men reading literature has declined about 3 percent more than American women reading literature.…