For my community involvement project, I volunteered at Memminger Elementary School for a program called “Reading Partners.” The program focuses on helping children build strong literacy skills to carry with them into their academic careers. It requires the tutor to read to the student that has been assigned and in turn the student reads to the tutor. The program assists in teaching the students valuable reading skills. Being able to read is critical to a child’s educational success. The program works
The question that I have chosen for my inquiry project is: How can you improve performance in a first grade classroom with Guided Reading? I am interested in this since I teach first grade. As a first grade teacher I am always looking for ways to improve my class’s performance. Guided reading offers support to the students as they are learning. Rogoff suggested that “adults support children’s learning by structuring the task’s difficulty level, jointly participating in problem solving, focusing
Aidan Kelly-Miller Hour 5 Literary Studies February 28, 2014 The Catcher in the Rye The book I chose for my Independent Reading Project is, “The Catcher in the Rye”, by J.D. Salinger, Little Brown and Company, 1951. “The Catcher in the Rye” is a coming-of-age-story. It describes the transitions that sixteen year old Holden Caulfield is going through, as he tries to make sense of growing-up. The book takes place in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. The main character, Holden Caulfield is telling
Independent Reading Project: Creating a Museum of Living Literature 1. Problem Statement In preparation for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition exam, high school students must read many kinds of literature during the year-long course to familiarize themselves with different time periods, movements, philosophies, and genres. Advanced Placement students must learn to think critically, and be ready to find, analyze, and express literary connections through written analysis
Objectives In producing my project my objectives are: • To integrate close reading strategies with the literacy/science curriculum to improve critical thinking outcomes with a group of 45 kindergarteners in a medium sized suburban kindergarten classroom • To determine if using close reading can help close the increasing achievement gap between kindergarten and first grade Hispanic and non-Hispanic learners • To develop a variety of close reading activities that can be used in kindergarten and
better, overcome difficult tasks, to comprehend all types of literature, ways to use and improve my reading skills, and several other things. Each of these items have affected my reading skills and how it has made my freshman year and beyond better. Communication was one of many things that we learned to do in this class. As a group, we communicated in our literature circle, Empower3000, and projects. During our literature circle, we would discuss study guide questions on the three books that we have
In school I was so lazy that there could have been a project due worth about 20% of the final grade and I still wouldn’t do it. Once in my 11th grade English class, we had to do a project about anything to do with the medieval time period. This project was worth a great deal of points. So to try to get a grade without doing anything, I went to Redners and bought an apple pie. I then brought the pie to English class and presented my project. I told them that the medieval people ate apple...
work for teachers but allowing them the “power of the eraser” over the “power of the pen.” (Sandra M. Alberti, 2012, p.4) Teachers have not always believed that they are reading teachers. For example, a social studies teacher or math teacher may only focused on their discipline, not necessarily spending time on teaching reading. The common core standards have all teachers building knowledge through content-rich non-fiction material in all classes. This is not to add or be a distr... ... middle
almost say that it is in my blood to read. (My parents have never been big into reading, but it seemed like my grandparents continuously had some type of book in their hands.) Although I appreciate literature I often find that I no longer have time to read for pleasure anymore. Work, school, and general life has encompassed my time so much that I feel as if I will miss deadlines if I stop for a moment just to read. Reading has become something that I do only if it is required. I long for the chance
Wilson Language System (www.wilsonlanguage.com) The Wilson Reading System (WRS) is the chief program of Wilson Language Training and the foundation of all other Wilson Programs. WRS is an intensive Tier 3 program for students in grades 2-12 and adults with word-level deficits who are not making adequate progress in their current intervention; have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies and require multisensory language instruction; or who require more intensive structured literacy instruction
children mot reading printed material, the author by the name of Anne Murphy Paul writes this article for parents and educators to read. She intends to emphasize the importance of deep reading. The author tries to accomplish this by citing sources talking about the benefits of deep reading, comparing the experience of deep reading to reading on the internet, and citing facts that makes reading online less valuable. The author cities various sources regarding benefits of deep reading on children.
Dyslexia During high school, a few of my friends were pulled out and put into different classes for certain subjects. At first, I didn’t think anything of it. However, I noticed that even though it was the same exact class and grade level, their assignments seemed to be a bit easier. I didn’t want to be rude, but I asked my best friend why was she taking separate classes from me, and she said it’s because she has Dyslexia. That was the first time I heard of Dyslexia. I had no idea what it was but
I was excited to read to the children and define the role as an adult of creating a reading experience for young people. In the Literature for Children book by David Russell, it discusses the adults’ responsibilities as bringing children and books together, giving the children as many different types of literature as possible, encouraging honest and open responses, to challenge children to explore those responses and learn something about themselves, to provide them with the critical language to
Reading is essential in America’s educational system, but why have students been avoiding it? Many students today thinks that reading is rather shallow and boring because they are forced to read what their school wants them to read. Being forced to read books not in their field of interest can make them lose interest in reading overall. This is a problem because students will not read the whole book, but rather they will just pull out information needed for an assignment. Deirdre Mahoney stated,
Informal Reading Inventories (IRIs) are a commercial test that teachers use to evaluate students’ reading performance. QRI-5’s are just one type of IRI that are available to teachers. These informal tests are often used as a screening instrument to determine whether or not a student is reading on or below grade level. Some of the other uses of IRIs are seeing where students are struggling in their reading; for example fluency versus comprehension, to help them recognize where students are showing
resources they need that reading can be enhanced. For my senior project I plan to do an extensive book drive for educators to assist children as well as adults still in school learn to read by providing proper books for daycares, elementary schools and adult learning centers to use. After receiving authorization from the following facilities, I will set up boxes and bins at places such as Publix, different public schools, and my parent’s work. In order to spread the word of my project, I will make posters
throughout the curriculum. Although I had indicated an awareness of the interrelationship of speaking and listening, reading and writing (SLWR), I did not conduct in depth analysis that considers these elements specifically with the process of learning. This essay will discuss how my understanding of SLWR has evolved, and in examining the links between lectures and workshops, further reading and school based training (SBT), will reflect on how this has impacted on my development as an English teacher.
aurally. Lance Huebner, a special education teacher in Missouri, recorded narration to a book onto a portable mp3 player which allowed students with reading disabilities to follow along with the reading and fully participate in a reading project with their regular education peers. They were also given an audio format option for their final for the project (Langhorst, 2007). According to Langhorst, this “empowered the students and gave ... ... middle of paper ... ...am, 2005). Not only will technology
Interestingly, recent studies have demonstrated that low reading skills lead to critical hindrances in monetary and social achievement. As stated by the National Center for Education Statistics, adults with lower levels of reading skills and literacy have a lower average salary. Another study evaluated that 17 to 18 percent of adults with "below average" literacy aptitudes earned less than $300 a week, though just 3 to 6 percent of adults with "proficient" reading abilities earned less than $300 a week (Snow
two, they would train 15 of the par... ... middle of paper ... ...es their child’s literacy. As shown in the study Welcoming Families: A Parent Literacy Project in a Linguistically Rich, High-Poverty School when parents are raising their children in a bilingual home, it is often difficult to be sure of how to aid their children in reading activities, especially if they are unsure of how to read in English as well. Parents are shown to be one of the strongest influences on their children’s literacy