The purpose of my research topic is to find ways to help students who struggle with literacy. In today’s society literacy plays an important role in our children lives. The purpose of survey research involving my research topic would be to observe students and collect data on each student. I would collect data to see what type is blocking each student from gaining the proper knowledge they need to know. Also, survey research will help me get feedback from other teachers on what they might encounter with their students. The survey that I would use doing my research study is longitudinal surveys. I would use this type of survey because it is useful of studying the dynamics of a topic or issue over time.Correctional research relates to my research topic because parental involvement is important.Therefore, correctional research is designed to determine how a set of variables are related or to test hypothesis regarding expected relations.
Casual-comparative research is related to my topic because it deals with the cause of reason for existing difference. It will help me find out the difference between a teacher who focus on literacy and a teacher who does not. Experimental research relates to my topic because it involves testing. This would be great way to allow students to take a pretest to see what they already know.
I. Getting To Know Literacy Learners
When asked to determine how I as an educator get to know my literacy learner I immediately began questioning what process I had in place in getting to know my students as literacy learners. One principal once told me that any good educator understands data and allows data to drive his or her instruction. While participating in this research-based practice afforded me the opportunity o...
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... analysis presentation she responded by saying that she learned new, helpful data about the framework for literacy instruction and that she looks forward to incorporating it into her lesson planning and instruction. Such questions included: Do you believe that when using the literacy framework, would it be better to collaborate with other teachers or would the planning be best done alone?
A family member stated the he would take more time out to send his child to the library in order to find those texts that interest his child. He also feels that this would be helpful in getting the children to want to read more. Such questions included: Does reading and writing
Ru n n i n g H e a d : R e s e a r c h A n a l y s i s 5 work together and what type of writing assignments would you suggest my child does after reading the library books and how often should children read?
For this assignment, I completed a survey to assess my school’s literacy program by using a survey that was adapted from by Patty, Maschoff, & Ransom (1996) to analyze the instructional program and the school’s infrastructure. To be able to answer my survey, I needed to go colleagues of mine in the English Department and to my administration to help with these questions. Being a math teacher, we hardly ever discuss the literacy and the students’ acquisition of it in our department meeting during staff development days. Since I am not truly current with literacy acquisition in education, I am hoping to understand more from this process so I can help all my students. I want them to be able to read texts related to math and find information that will be useful to them during the year.
Rassool, N. (2009) ‘Literacy: in Search of a Paradigm’ in Soler, J., Fletcher-Campbell, F. & Reid, G. (eds.) Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts, London, Sage, pp.7-31.
Principle one is literacy coaching involves particular knowledge in literacy. Literacy coaches must have an abundant knowledge of literacy processes, skills, assessments, strategies, and fresh researched topics in literacy. To acquire the literacy knowledge needed to be literacy coaches they should have a higher education with a Master’s degree in reading or go through a reading specialist program. It’s been noted in several studies by L’allier and Elish-Piper (2006) and Elish-Piper and L’allier (2007) that teachers who were supported by literacy coaches their students improved greatly in their reading assessment scores. In additions literacy coaches need to learn how to work with teachers by understanding how an adult learns. For instance, teachers need to be involved in the instructional planning by being appreciated for the knowledge, experience, and suggestions, which can be openly discussed rather than being turned
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man,
Knoblauch argues that there are many definitions of literacy that impact people’s lives. Although he argues there are many definitions, he focused on four types of literacy that are most common in society. Knoblauch labels them as functional, cultural, personal-growth/liberal, and critical literacy. He defines functional literacy as a level of literacy that is “readying people for the necessities of daily life—writing checks, reading sets of instructions”(1990, p. 3) and other basic reading and writing skills. However, he also warns that there are hidden agendas in these types of defined literacies. Ill prepared teachers who do not connect to and challenge their students result in no critical literacy and very little
With such high numbers of adolescents falling below basic in reading, illiteracy is a battle that must be fought head on. The largest dilemma with the struggle is the number of variations that cause adolescents to become reluctant, unmotivated or struggling readers. Fortunately, a large number of strategies exist to encourage and strengthen readers of all ages, proving that adolescence is not a time to give up on faltering students. Rather, it is a time to evaluate and intervene in an effort to turn a reluctant reader into an avid one (or near enough). Ultimately, educators must learn to properly assess a student’s strengths and weaknesses (Curtis, 2009) and pair them with the proper intervention techniques. If one method does not work, countless others exist to take its place.
Literacy, as a concept, has been evolving during the last few decades, presenting itself as a more complex term to comprehend. The deeper understanding of this notion has made the process of learning it, a bigger and more elaborate challenge.
At least 40 million American adults need stronger literacy skills to take advantage of more lifelong learning opportunities (Knowles 12). Low literacy limits life chances, regardless of how it is defined or measured. According to The Random House Dictionary literacy is defined as “the quality or state of being literate, esp. the ability to read and write.” Another breakdown of the word, from the same source is “possession of education.” Basic skills and literacy abilities are widely viewed as necessities for lifelong learning and the development of success among individuals, families, communities, and even nations. Better knowledge about literacy is an essential condition for improving it. Helping children improve their literacy skills can help them develop the capacity for lifelong learning, keep pace with changing educational expectations and rapid technological change, and achieve their life goals. Today in society there are many adults with poor literacy skills who lack the foundation they need to find and keep decent jobs, to support their children’s education and help them mold a literate future. I have taken one small step towards this problem by tutoring at two schools. The more time people put towards helping the youth of America is the more literate our population can become. Every small action can help, even if it is just tutoring at local middle and junior high schools.
Literacy is most commonly understood as reading and writing. But before children can read and write, they need to learn about sound, words, language, books and stories (Raising Children, 2015). Children begin to develop and gain knowledge quite differently and with support and developmentally appropriate learning skills children will also come to understand the connection between letters and sounds. Literacy development or early literacy is the most essential in the first three years of life as it the earliest experience children have with language, sound and the positive interactions between child and adult. Vygotsky (1978) believed in how children developed, and the important role of adults in leading child’s early development. The interactions
Literature is a key component when speaking of literacy. Teachers need to provide students with endless amounts of practice experiences in reading to build their fluency rate. This should be done with different genres of texts and different levels. Reading a wide variety of literature help children develop rich vocabularies.
The ‘functional model’ of literacy is a model that describes the literacy skills gained that lead us to function within society. The skills that can lead to us achieving goals such as higher education study, entering the world of work and becoming a contributor to the community. These are aspects of our lives that could be effected by having poor functioning language and literacy skills, leading to poor opportunities, limited socially mobility and an ethos of disengagement within certain communities. Considering these issues the great importance of understanding the effects of not gaining these skills can be
My personal literacy development has been a constant struggle since my arrival in America as a boy with a Spanish-speaking mother and a bi-lingual father. We spoke Spanish at home. As I began school I could only speak a small amount of English and understood only slightly more. I learnt, as young children do, through listening to the people around me and using any visual aids I could to scaffold the gaps in my understanding (Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl, Holliday, 2012). My lack of basic literacy affected every area of my learning with only math classes allowing me to feel slightly comfortable due to the international nature of numerical literacy. I quickly developed the oracy skills required to be able to contribute to social and academic situations but unfortunately developed other ways to hide my lack of progress in other areas.
Literacy is a very intriguing topic; it seems simple yet it is so vast and complex that it takes some people their whole lives to understand it. If I say the phrase ‘Discourse Community’ most people in a random selection from the population would just stare at me waiting for me to finish my sentence, as they would not understand the gravity of the phrase. A discourse community is a group with similar interests that uses communication and other devices together to expand their knowledge of a subject and accomplish goals. Readers from a young age do not understand the fact that they are contributing to their community before they even know of its existence. By communicating to their teacher that they are having issues with a certain area and that this type of learning helped them to understand it, their teacher can then reiterate to the community what the issue was and how it was resolved so that
Every child deserves a positive, safe, nurturing, and stimulating learning environment where they will grow academically, socially, emotionally, and physically. My role as an educator is to provide my students with this type of environment as well as an education that will help them succeed academically and become life long learners. It is the responsibility of a literacy educator to provide students with this type of environment, but also to provide instruction that will help students become successful readers and writers. There are numerous programs and philosophies about literacy and reading. Through years of experience and research, one begins to develop their own creative approach on teaching these skills. After looking at different programs and seeing the positive and negatives of each, an integrated and balanced approach of literacy seems to be the best way to teach the differing needs of each student.
One of the centers that enhance language development is the library center. In the library center, I have two soft child-size chairs, a variety of child appropriate books, two dry erase boards and mar...