Summary and Response My favorite piece of reading material this week is Drawing on Text Features for Reading Comprehension and Composing. It echoes chapter 3, from our Content Area Literacy Instruction textbook. It shines a brief, but rich light on the fact that there is a huge variety of text and media resources available to teachers. The article explains how multimedia publications have the potential to draw students into learning, in ways that textbooks may not. It also mentions that sometimes
assessment results, paired and choral reading. These themes will evolve in my study, and serve as a purpose to improve my students reading and fluency skills. These themes are an essential part in my study, and each of these differentiated strategies serve a purpose. In the second grade classroom that Miss Banks is currently substituting has just taken their STAR test. The word STAR stands for (Standardized, Testing, and Reporting). The STAR test students on their reading comprehension, fluency, and decoding
By using reading strategies such as think-alouds, close reading and building background knowledge teachers can help make the reading more accessible for English Language Learners (ELLs). Stimulating critical thinking begins prior to reading. By tapping into the student’s prior knowledge, they will be able to make connections with the reading passage which is one of the first steps of critical thinking. According to Numrich’s Sequence of Critical Thinking Tasks (Beaumont 2010) pre-reading
literary reading surveys from 1982, 1992, and 2002, the National Endowment for the Arts released the following statement. The accelerating declines in literary reading among all demographic groups of American adults indicate an imminent cultural crisis. The trends among younger adults warrant special concern, suggesting that – unless some effective solution is found – literary culture, and literacy in general, will continue to worsen. Indeed, at the current rate of loss, literary reading as a leisure
Response to Mitoko Rich, “Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading?” “What counts as literacy, how literacy changes in response to the new media landscape, and what value we should ascribe to the new forms of communication that continue to emerge and evolve online? (Jenkins, 2009)" In response to Mitoko Rich, “Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading?” in the 21st century, children are learning via different sources, whether through textbooks, internet, blogs, etc. Therefore, it was not surprising
The understanding of music in the church is important to any believer. For worship, through music, to be what God intended it to be, one must understand the important role of music and how to biblically apply it to a service. The Bible, however, does not give strict guidelines on this matter. Therefore, the church must interrupt what the Bible does say about worship into their routine. The issues discussed in the chapters to follow are the author’s position of issues within the church. This
Usually differences of ethnics, cultures and religions lead to sorts of misunderstanding between people from different societies. People are usually judged according to their behavior in public spaces which might be a result of their culture, education, or social class. An article, “The Arab world” (1996), written by Edward T. Hall, an American anthropologist and writer, discusses the cultural misconceptions between Americans and the Arabs. The article points many of social behaviors acted by Arab
globalization and the aspiration for connectivity to western ideologies. The most significant and interesting aspects of these readings was the importance consumption has on the well-being of the citizens of Kathmandu. Consumption has to help the economy, but I found it very interesting that Mark Liechty only chose to focus on the deep rooted necessity to stand out but also belong. These readings fail to address in detail how the consumption of the middle class affects the lower and higher groups. I found myself
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is an absurd play about two men, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) who wait under a withered tree for Godot, who Vladimir says has an important but unknown message. This play is incredibly bizarre, because at times it is difficult to discern if there is a plot at all, and at other times, the play seems incredibly profound.One of the most ambiguous aspects of Beckett's play is the identity of Godot. If the reader analyzes all the Biblical allusions, it is quite
consist only of constructing academic papers. In class, we also were required to analyze another student piece to add our own thoughts into their writing in where they can improve. This skill I learned from Rhetorical Reading Response and Peer Revision. Rhetorical Reading Response focused more on the evaluation of the material we analyze to support the author's claim. On the contrary, Peer Reviews furthered my ability on giving constructive criticism on another student piece. By giving constructive
Reading Response 3 We have been reading up and analyzing politics on the television the last couple weeks. Touching on the fact of how they get portrayed and how they act on television. This article shares thoughts about the fictional aspects in politics and in the media. Boriskin and Tisinger, talk about the lines being blurred between the entertainment aspect with the news and political aspects (101). Thus suggesting that entertainment for the public is starting to produce more content with news
Zan , Zhang Reading and Writing 162 May. 6 Reading Response Assignment 2 “The bet” The 15 years of solitary life, the imprisonment makes people lost personal freedom, but in return he also get ideological freedom. Although this process is very difficult, there is still a person who has finished it. According to the short story“The bet”written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in 1889, Chekhov wants to express that reading is priceless, reading can save the heart
Coriolanus Reading Response The hero of this tragedy, Martius/Coriolanus is truly different from the other heroes of the Shakespeare tragedies. He presents himself as a great man and he is treated as a great man as well. However, he is a failed political figure of a stubborn character that is unable to comprehend what is required of him which eventually results in his downfall. Unlike other Shakespearean characters, he is very hard for the audience to empathize with due to his lack of the essence
opportunity; with America being a democratic nation and the idea of everyone is created equal which lends to equal opportunity and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All of the readings focus on how to obtain the American Dream or how they were living the so called American Dream. My goal for this reading response is to prove that everyone can’t have the American Dream. In the book “The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation” by Jim Cullen explains multiple versions
Reading Response: Rubin “Thinking Sex” In Gayle Rubin’s essay, “Thinking Sex”, Rubin focuses on sexual oppression and the ideologies that dictate and control the concept of sexuality. Rubin opens the essay by introducing sexuality as a frivolous topic that some may feel doesn’t carry as much importance as other worldly issues. However, despite this acknowledgement, sex and sexuality are still used as political agents or as Rubin describes it, “vehicles for displacing social anxieties” (143). Various
Speech Reading Response Chapters 16-18 Chapter sixteen of “A Concise Public Speaking Handbook”, is about the different methods of delivering a speech. There are four different methods that speakers can use to deliver their speech. These four methods are: manuscript speaking, memorized speaking, impromptu speaking, and extemporaneous speaking. Manuscript speaking is a method that has the speaker read from a manuscript to the audience. The problem with the manuscript method is that the speech may
Mean Girls reading response “Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George.” Okay, behind Mean Girl’s comedic, dramatic and plain exaggerated ideas of what it is like to be in High School, it really made me realise how lucky I am going to an all girls’ school. The film makes me smile every time I watch it because of the way high school is portrayed. After watching this movie, I did start noticing how at my age, girls are very insecure about the way they look and
leaders should give orders to other low-status boys. In contrast, linguistic styles of girls are different from boys. Girls have to put themselves in the inferior position and avoid embarrassing or frustrating others, otherwise, they will get negative responses from other girls. The way people communicate with others will gradually become their own linguistic styles, and will bring significant influences to their career. In the workplace, the differences in linguistic style make men and women have distinct
Reading Response Journal (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) “I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit” (15). Growing up, Huck Finn has been exposed to contrasting lifestyles, most notably nonconformist when living with Pap, and orderly and educated while living with the widow and Miss Watson. While the widow and Miss Watson take care of Huck, they try to civilize him by teaching manners, providing an education, and exposing him to religious practices
Reading Response 3 In the beginning of Neuromancer, William Gibson effectively entices the reader with details to further the plot, but not enough to fully comprehend the story on its own. By the end of chapter 1, Gibson mentions a handful of locations, characters, and concepts that influence the reader to create his/her own version of Neuromancer. Along with that, he also packs a lot of information in small passages. For example, by analyzing the fifth paragraph of chapter one, beauty is showcased