The Reader

their own lives including their cultures, backgrounds, and personalities. Reader response criticism is a literacy theory that concentrates on the reader as well as his/her experience that can be relatable to the story they read. People can use general or specific details from a story such as the events, characters, themes, the plot itself, and so forth to relate to all the ones in real life; to relate all factors to the readers’ lives and to society. Furthermore, people can interpret a situation…

could remember. I was read to when I was little as well. I do not recall learning to read, only that when my mother sat me down to start learning how to read, I already knew how. All throughout elementary school, I participated in the Accelerated Reader (also called AR) program. I loved it because you would read books, and then takes quizzes on those books. Depending on your score, you would accumulate points, and those points could be used to buy things from the AR store. They had everything:…

Accelerated Reader is a computerized program that assess comprehension of a book that a student has a read. With the computerized program, students are given a goal that consists of how many points they need a certain time span along with their reading level. The books are leveled and points are assigned depending on how many difficult the book is. After a student reads a book, they take a test to see how well they comprehend the book. Teachers can access the quiz grades and keep track on…

In summary, the first section of the Bedford Reader assists students in writing, and reading in ways that are different from what we know, yet are easy to understand. Also, we learn how to truly analyze an essay. The second section covers writing, and its importance in daily communication. Overall, an essay should keep the audience interested to understand your work. An essay and should be drafted to be efficiently revised to correct anything that does not fit well. Lastly, in writing, we should…

When a reader reads a story and the novel is told a from a first person point of view they are able to understand that character. The reader gets an understanding of how this character is feeling and maybe even form ideas about why the character may feel this particular way. Evil, determined, isolated- these are a few words to describe some characters in this story. In the narrative, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the novel`s shift in narrative that has an sympathetic effect on the reader when…

The Dangers Posed by Reader Bias: A Reader Response Criticism of The Science Fiction Novel Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Few modern authors have had as profound effect on their genre, society, political debate, or literature in general as Robert Heinlein. Science fiction author Ken Macleod suggests that the world was having a dialogue with Heinlein, unfortunately, one of the unintended consequences of dialogue is misunderstanding, some of which is caused by reader bias (Macleod, James, &…

In the article Supporting Secondary Readers, the author talks about the different strategies that the teachers use to support readers that are having trouble. According to the author, 8.7 million fourth through twelfth graders struggle to read their textbooks everyday while in school (Ness, 80). If the students cannot read their textbook, then it makes it real difficult for them to try and learn the material they are required to learn. A reason to support this is that the students will not be…

Authors can influence their readers to do something useful for the environment with several different types of writing. There are three main types of influencing ways a author can write. One would be a way of protesting to change something. Another way would be showing how people what other people are doing to inspire them to do the same. The last way would be to right a fictional piece and represent what is going on in the environment. Every way to influence a reader is very effectual. Many…

Accelerated reader has no effects on reading fluency according to institute of education sciences. So AR is not making students any more fluent or better at reading. This is a reason why we shouldn’t have AR because it is making kids read outside of school but not making them better at it. Some people think that accelerated reader makes kids read more outside of school, and that it makes them better readers they say it is good that it makes them read at their reading level. People that don’t…

Reader Diary 1: Robson, C. (2002). Approaches to social research. In Real world research (pp.16-26). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. This reading has been useful in understanding the different ways one can set out to conduct scientific research in the real world. While the author does a good job of remaining objective and supporting arguments of all sides it recognizes critical realism as being the best approach. Refreshingly, the author seems to place importance on staying flexible…