Reading

The skill set of reading and writing never stops developing, as well it is not an easy ability for every one to learn. Thinking back on how you learnt how to read, there is not one moment or practice that comes to mind, but rather collection of moments and years that lead into someone being able to read. Where writing is a skill that starts with a simple building block of writing letters eventually turns into words, and then sentences. I believe reading and writing go hand in hand, as the more you

Midterm Exam What is Guided Reading? Why is it important in teaching reading to primary students? Guided reading is an instructional approach where a teacher works with a group of students on the same reading level, and who demonstrate similar reading behaviors. Guided reading is highly important when it comes to improving a child’s reading skills. Which is why it is important that children begin guided reading as early as possible. Beginning guided reading during primary school can be beneficial

Reading and writing is very essential in one’s lifetime. People always say they don’t like reading and they don’t like writing because it’s boring and they have no interest, but little do they know they do it way more than they think. Everyday you’re reading and writing, it might not be reading from a book or writing an essay but you’re doing it. Most of you’re reading comes from you reading texts messages, reading comments and captions on social media, reading road signs, etc. Most of your writing

difficulty with reading. He reads very slowly and doesn’t recognize many words. Because of his lack of word recognition, he spends the majority of this time sounding them out. He has spent so much mental effort trying to read, that he doesn’t have the ability to comprehend what he has read. In order for Jeff to be able to comprehend his reading, he needs to work on his fluency. Once he has accomplished this task, he can focus more on comprehension. As of October 11th, Jeff was reading 27 WCPM which

presented and how it influences other readers. Whereas readers that read for meaning look at how meaningful the characters of the story are. Reading for meaning as opposed to the less popular style of reading like a writer, preferred since it makes text easier to annotate, to comprehend, and to react about. When a reader reads for meaning opposed to reading like a writer, it makes the text easier to annotate. In Mrs. Wade’s English class, I received a writing prompt and then proceeded to annotate

Reading actively is important because it helps remembering what was read in the text, helps adopt other writer’s strategies, and helps to understand how to convey, persuade, and show information. According to Mortimer J. Adler in How to Mark a Book it is important to write down notes in the margins of the text, which is a way to read actively. By writing down notes, it makes it much easier to remember what was happening in the text. Taking notes may seem like a hassle, but in the long run it makes

This week’s reading covers many areas of content reading instruction such as the inferencing, word recognition, explicit instruction in comprehension, strategies to increase comprehension and retention, strategies to partner reading and content routine, and how to love and nurture our students with God’s word. All these areas play a vital role in growing independent readers. Kaylene Beer pointed out several significant areas of reading comprehension that help students increase their fluency. Inferences

remember in 8th grade when my English teacher pulled me aside and said, “Thao, did you know that you’re at college reading level and above? You should tell your parents that. You are the only one out of the entire class.” I genuinely thought she was kidding. There was no way that I, one of the few kids in kindergarten told to read more outside of school, would be at college reading level now. After all, I’m just an average English student and I still do think of myself as average--nothing more, nothing

today if they didn’t understand the concepts of reading and writing. After all, reading is everywhere, far and wide, and is a very important, as well as a necessary part of the human life. Daily lifestyle includes reading road signs, magazines, billboards, texts, newspapers, emails, books, labels and so on. Over the years of learning how to properly read and write, my family and teachers massively impacted the techniques that I use today by reading me books that have accounted for enormous parts

“Why is it so personal?” My past with reading and writing has not been a constant thing, I’ll admit. Growing up, the word reading would be met with a consistent groan by most of my family. Writing would probably hold a worse reaction, but no one in my family really wrote beyond the grocery list. When I was young, my favorite books were either the short informational books about animals, or the Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi (I never read them, just looked at the pictures)