Reading

Reading and writing are two of the most important skills an individual can possess. Without them, receiving an education or even performing everyday tasks, such as reading a menu or writing own name could be challenging. Everyone has a background story when it comes to learning and developing these skills. In my case, school has been an important part of my development; in fact, a majority of situations are similar to what I encountered growing up, because schoolteachers helped shape us students…

must learn the letter sound associations and be able to apply these skills quickly enough to understand the language they are reading. Students who have a difficult time with this task have a hard time not only understanding what they have read, but also struggle to read fluently (Allord & Chard, 2011). Many educators assume that reading fluency problems affect reading comprehension because it is impossible to understand something you…

is reading/literacy foundations for kindergarten. The collection of lessons are supported by Missouri Learning Standards and address the following needs on the student’s IEP. Throughout this unit each focus student will demonstrate an understanding in identifying and sorting pictures of objects into conceptual categories, identify and match all upper and lower case letters with prompting and will be able to retell main ideas or important facts from a read aloud. The unit I created on…

in a flurry, toting half unzipped backpacks and the invisible weight of the emotional, social, and personal baggage that all people, particularly teenagers, must balance along with life’s many other requirements—in this case, a dreaded non-fiction reading comprehension task. Some students immediately sit down and hurriedly press pencil to paper, capitalizing on the precious final moments to finish the neglected work before the bell rings. Others sit down calmly, carefully removing homework from…

The goal of summer reading programs is to encourage children to read throughout the summer. It can be implemented by both schools and public libraries. However, there has been many articles written about summer reading programs implemented by public libraries. A topic covered in many of those articles is reading motivation. Reading motivation is defined as a person’s willingness to engage in the act of reading. Furthermore, reading motivation can be separated into two categories, intrinsic and…

Reading is essential to everyday living, the failure to read will restrict student’s ability to understand basic Math, Language Arts, Science or Social studies. Students with reading difficulties need support for their deficit in a specific skill with different strategies. The two reading difficulties for ESE students and how I will address the difficulties in my future classroom are difficulty with high – frequency sight words using a multi-sensory approach that combines language experience…

Karen Rosenberg, the author of “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources”, delivers a care-package to students who have trouble reading and comprehending academic readings. Before Rosenberg dishevels into her article, she makes it clear that her article isn’t for the student who can read and comprehend an article well. Rosenberg’s article is packed with tips that would help any student that has trouble reading scholarly articles. For instance, Rosenberg suggests focusing on the…

outperform boys on standardized test, the amount of reading done relates directly to reading achievement, and the kind of reading in school can cause boys to read less are three issues that need to be addressed. Knowing this, a study was conducted in an elementary school with thirty-five boys from four fifth grade classes in a north central North Carolina to find out what boys really want. Each of the students completed an open-ended interview about reading with questions that asked things such…

Reading Rockets is a "national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help" (Reading Rockets, 2018). This website is geared toward many audiences, including teachers, administrators, librarians, childcare providers or anyone who has a hand in helping in helping young readers grow. Reading Rockets is an education initiative of WETA, a well-known U.S. public television/radio station (Reading…

through picture book reading The primary way to develop vocabulary is through reading. When I was young, I was taught to look up words, copy their definitions from the dictionary and then memorize them. Teachers have dictation assessment regularly to check our words spelling. I do not want to teach vocabulary in this passive way as passive learners lack motivation to learn. Passive learners perceive learning, especially learning a foreign language, to be torturous. By reading picture books,…