Reading

Model Description Reading is like cooking. Cooking is the practice of preparing, or constructing, food. When we read, we are constructing meaning from text. In cooking, the enthusiasm for cooking, the ingredients and methods for preparation that we use, and the chef’s level of mastery of basic and advanced cooking skills, all play a role in the quality of the food that is prepared. Similarly, when we read, our motivation for reading, the strategies we use to understand the text, and our…

The various stages of reading development are not based on pupils age or the year they are in but on their development in the class room and the stages they are in. the different reading development stages start from a lower-level to a high-level, for instance: • Early Emergent Readers. This is where pupils begin, it is the first step of reading development where pupils learn the basic’s such as alphabet mats, phase sound mats, phonics and large print picture books. • Emergent Readers, this is…

comes down to what we learn in books. In an essay called Learning to Read, which was also written by Malcolm X, and The Joy of Reading and Writing : Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie, both authors used their exceptional personal life stories to enhance the importance of books as well as express their love for reading. However, what fully connects two pieces together is how reading books had helped both the authors to realize the reality of mal-treatment towards their races, along with it being…

Reading instruction is very important, especially for beginning readers. Without the proper teaching techniques and classroom instruction students can fall permanently behind by the third grade. Using reading intervention plans can help save those students that slipped by and are struggling in the high grades, it also can prevent a student from falling behind at all with early intervention. The Flex program from McGraw-Hill is a data driven program proven effective from results and evidence…

children has a significant reading disability (American Psychological Association, 2014). An important part of reading instruction for struggling students is the use of the right program and intervention at the right time. With so many packaged reading intervention programs out there, it is difficult to keep up with them all. It is first important to find an Assessment-Guided Approach. An effective reading program includes exercises and assessments that target the specific reading deficit…

Before reading this text, I will meet with my ELL students to develop lesson plan more specific than the rest of the group may need. I know that being able to summarize will help ELLs with reading, so I know this activity will be a great activity as they can draw and write what they read about the story. The students will be able to draw the main events in the story according to the timeline (boxes) of events they construct on their worksheet. If the ELLs struggled with reading, then there is…

What does reading comprehension mean? Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing. (K-12reader.com, 2008-2016) Therefore, simply put, to comprehend reading a person is making sense out of the information they are given. In schools teachers use strategies to help students learn the necessary concepts they need to graduate. Some of the strategies that teachers use are summarized below…

Literary Analysis The purpose of this literary analysis to address the question: how can oral reading fluency of 4th grade students be enriched? With the onset of a diverse group of students with language barriers and learning disabilities, educators are seeing an influx of students with weaknesses in oral reading fluency. Often time students struggle with reading comprehension and their understanding of the meaning of passages. This deficiency hinders how students communicate in small group…

ENGL 101 Module Four Research Article Summaries DATE OF SUBMISSION Journal Article Summary #1: Nation, Paul. "Reading Faster", International Journal of English. 2009, Vol. 9, p. 131+. In Reading Faster, Nation describes an array of various processes non-native English speakers can practice to develop their reading fluency. He begins by introducing three common occurrences when reading: fixating on different words, eyes jumping to the next text to focus on or "saccades," and going back to…

parts, reading and writing. Both of which I have had different experiences of. Reflecting off my past experience reading was the more challenging one out of the two. I have always enjoyed writing and learning how to express myself on paper. For those reasons, I will be exploring both of these literacies separately. Ten years ago, me being around eight years old, sitting in a reading circle with my fellow classmates. It comes to be my turn to take on the next paragraph of the book we were reading…