Reading

My love for reading and writing began at a young age, although, it was short lived. When I was in elementary school, I always looked forward to writing stories in my journal about the various topics my teacher created. I learned to read and write by sitting at a table in my living room, tracing the letters of the alphabet on a small piece of paper, and trying my best to pronounce the foreign letters in front of me. Reading has made me into the person I am today by allowing me to have many…

READING The Basic Reading Skills composite measures EE107’s ability to read a list of words and correctly pronounce nonsense words. EE107’s standard score of 75 falls in the low range at the 5th percentile, indicating that she performed at or 5 percent of her peers. Based on EE107’s performance on this composite, it appears that she will benefit from explicit instruction on word recognition skills and phonics skills. Reading Fluency refers to the ability to read quickly and accurately. It is…

A Reconciled Love Just like most kids my story of how reading has impacted my life started when I was very young. A memory of my childhood was my parents laying my sister Ashley and I down every night to read us a bible story. I was always an adventurous kid, so for me story time was just another adventure. I have always enjoyed reading like my mom; however, I would prefer to be outside with a ball in my hand like my dad. Regardless of how hard I resisted, my mom would insist that I come…

Have you ever tried reading a text that was too difficult? What did you do? Yes, I tried to read a text that was too difficult, but what I did was that I reread the text again. How can reading comprehension strategies help? It can help because it will help you understand the text a lot better than how you understood it before. What are some examples of reading comprehension strategies? How do they help readers? Some examples are visualizing, making, confirming,…

Have you ever asked yourself “what is the need for reading if it is displeasing for me?” People may think that reading is a hobby and that it is not for everyone except for those that love reading. However, literature has similar effects to the brain as lifting weights or going on a run does for muscles in the body; it strengthens the brain and enhances thinking skills. Most would not argue that exercise is degrading to the body. Unlike with reading, many argue literature does not improve the…

Students’ success relies on the ability to grow as an individual through academic traditions, such as learning to master close reading. The importance of being objective and exhaustive while reading was emphasized in the Peter Brooks essay, “An Ethics of Reading.” In a way, students inadvertently force their values into their assigned reading; however, this causes them to perceive everything they read in a biased light. Although, students cannot deny the influence that time spent deciphering…

general area of reading problems are classified into several components according to Jennings, Lerner and Caldwell (2014). Emergent literacy, word recognition accuracy, reading fluency, comprehension and language and meaning vocabulary (pg. 95-96). I think the major problems in reading may occur in decoding, comprehension, and retention. Children who are diagnosed with learning difficulties have a primary problem with reading and related language skills. Through my readings and class…

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…

article "What reading does for the mind" Anne E. claims that reading makes you a smarter person, the more you read the more you get better and overcome other forms of knowledge that had been transformed in development of the cognitive abilities. The more you read the more you increase and enrich your vocabulary more than talking or listening. Reading is the base of learning a language. The research " Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science" shows that a child who does not learn the basics of reading…

I used to hate reading. I would whine and procrastinate every time a reading assignment was given, and then I would trudge through the book, hating it the whole time. As far back as I can remember we had to read books and take tests on them to earn points. We stopped doing that around seventh grade, but for years I would do the bare minimum to receive those points, usually reading a bunch of easy books to accumulate points. In fourth grade I attempted to start the first Harry Potter book, which…