Reading

and driven third grade boy at Osceola Elementary School. He has remedial reading problems, for which I am there to help him work through. For this second case study, I administered additional reading assessments to Jake in order to gain further evidence for his instructional needs. The first test I administered to Jake was the Informal Reading Inventory. One section of the Informal Reading Inventory dealt with reading comprehension. Jake read and answered questions to all of the passages…

Reading Memoir "I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." by J.K. Rowling. I identify with this quote because I think books are like windows opening in front of you to bring you to different worlds. The experience of reading can change with age, interests, even with your mood. But reading a book is always the opportunity to connect with a wonderful new experience; and here is how it has been for me since I remember. My memories are blurry from my early childhood,…

Is Technology Interfering with Reading? Literacy begins at different levels. Some learn to read and write from their parents at a very young age, and some learn from TV shows or from hearing other kids speak at school. We all have our own story when it comes to how we adapted literacy as children. However, there could very well be a completely different story for today’s modern kids than kids in the past. With all of the distractions from the new waves of technology, they simply do not read…

2. Multiple Oral Re-Reading (Moyer, 1979) Let’s start off by looking at the Multiple Oral Re-Reading treatment, which was first used by Moyer (1979) in a patient with pure dyslexia. MOR is a text base reading treatment, where patients are instructed to read a passage from Scientific Research Associates Reading Laboratory series (SRA; Parker & Scannell, 1998) aloud during a weekly (?) session with their therapist. The SRA series is divided into 12 levels of text, each which have 12 passages.…

student is a struggling reader, a striving reader, or a competent reader, finding their independent, instructional, and frustration reading level is a key component in building their confidence as a proficient and skilled learner. A Content Reading Inventory (CRI) can be an effective assessment tool to indicate how much information a student has retained from a reading. It can also as provide useful data to understand and realize what students know, as well as help identify students who…

Rhetorical Reading is grasping content, as well as taking a gander at content in the authors' point of view. Rhetorical reading requires rhetorical analysis in order to understand where the author is coming from. In other words to make a decision on the authors credibility. Rhetorical analysis attempts to answer 3 questions: what is the purpose of the author?, who is it intended for?, and how will the author present it to the audience?. Students utilize this by using several strategies…

Directed Reading Lesson Reading is a complex process that involves an array of strategies to acquire comprehension (Tompkins, 2010). Struggling readers lack some of the necessary components to acquire comprehension. Teachers must help students acquire the essential strategies that help build comprehension. Teachers must not rely solely on building word study abilities, they should also ensure understanding of the text. Struggling readers are already behind; therefore, teachers must ensure that…

Reading and writing is a vital part of education for each and every student because it is the stepping stone to all other forms of learning. Reading and writing are fundamental skills that each student must master if they are expected to have success during their educational years. It is important for teachers to realize the importance of their job, they are entrusted with the development and shaping of the nation’s youth, they are not only teaching students for the betterment of their futures…

in the right path to a bright future. What better way can children have to go on the right path? Summer reading programs for children is a great place to start. Elementary students should be allowed to receive reading programs during the summer in order to increase their reading levels and receive a better future. Summer reading programs are important because it can increase a child's reading level as Barbara Heyn said, “ more than any public institution including the schools, the public…

classroom at Mackay Elementary School by separating Accelerated Reading books and non Accelerated Reading books. I looked up and checked the books they were labeled with their reading levels and put on shelves for the students to read. Accelerating Reading books, which are books that the first graders and other students can read and take quizzes on, to help check students understanding of the book that he or she has read. Accelerated Reading books are grade level books, by being grade level…