The diverse learner

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This narrative passage is titled ‘Where the Ashes Are. The reading commenced with the student answering some conceptual questions that are related to the content of the topic. Unlike the first passage that was factual, this passage has many descriptive words and arouses more excitement. The reader has to use expressive speech as the passage is read. When asked what the student knew about the country of Vietnam the response was that the country had a war, but the name of the war was not known. Following, the student was asked what civilian means and the response was a person who lives in that civilization. For this the learner scored zero and the next question was asked, the question that followed the student replied to what does escalation means. Dillun’s response was that escalation meant to move up. A one was given because the answer was not explicit, as the explicit response would be to intensify. The fourth question, what convoy means was not answered because the reader expressed that he did not know what convoy meant. The last question in this section was a ceasefire and a ceasefire was said to stop shooting. The full score was given for this response and a total of five points was accumulated in the concept question section which calculated to 33% percent. This is an indication that the learner does not have a keen background knowledge of the topic at hand.
Next, the student went on to the oral reading of the passage where there were thirty five miscues checked. From this total twenty of these miscues were substitution, one was insertion, and five were meaning-change. As a result of the miscues Dillun’s total accuracy level of this passage was at the independent level, 95%. The total...

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...ides the reader with tools to examine and show relationship in the text and assist student write well-organized summary of the text. Some of the graphic organizers that can be considered are the Venn Diagrams, Storyboard, Story Map, and Cause/Effect. Answering questions is another strategy that can be implemented and can be effect because the reading becomes purposeful focusing on what is to be learned. This strategy reinforces active think during reading. The Question-Answer Relationship strategy is useful as it assist the student in how to better answer questions. There are four different types of question; Right There, Think and Search, Author and You and On Your Own. There is a great deal of strategies that can be used to assist this learner. Without a strategy this student will continue to fail at reading and comprehending because the two go hand-in-hand.

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