Expository text can be very challenging to young readers, because of the new concepts and new vocabulary. These texts have some structural elements that help guide students through the reading. The ability to identify and analyze these elements in expository texts help students to understand texts more easily and remember it longer. Teaching expository text structure can be difficult and the article gives some good examples on how to achieve it. Being able to read and comprehend is an essential part of our everyday life, so it is very important that all teachers find the best ways to teach it. There are a few reasons why incorporating informational books into the classroom is very important. First of all, children love …show more content…
The vocabulary that used in expository texts is the foundations for current and future learning. Teachers have to teach these words to help students to comprehend the text better. According to Graves (2006), there are four essential components of vocabulary instruction, such as: providing rich and varied language experiences; teaching individual words explicitly; teaching word-learning strategies; fostering word consciousness. Authors of the article bring the idea that before to meet new words in the expository text, before focusing of the words’ definitions, children need to exposed to them through the …show more content…
This approach allows students to analyze and identify text structure as well as build upon their reading comprehension. My favorite strategy I use is the graphic organizer. Students are able to recognize the main idea, major idea and the supporting details of a given text. Students may also apply the “teach to teach” model to provide mastery learning skills. This approach also makes learning exciting by allowing students an opportunity to connect ideas based on their background knowledge. As teachers we must continue to implement strategies for the purpose of promoting students’ overall comprehension skills. I thought this article was very informational and I took away some very useful teaching tools that will allow me to help my students become better readers understanding what they are reading. In doing this I will be able to teach the different text structures to the students who are at a disadvantage and help them to be able to comprehend by using text structures in expository texts. I also thought it was nice how the article gave the five text structures and three guides as a guide to use with students. The fact that if a student can realizes what they have read and retain it comprehend it will only allow for them to meet the requirements and where they need to be as
Structure is essential for both literary text and informative text. The informative text provides facts laid out in
The writer uses structures and features of the text to manipulate the reader’s experience of the text and the reader being immersed in the novel has changed through the author’s use of structures and features of the text. Characters in the text use different vocabulary to reflect on how smart they are, this gives the reader a good understanding of the characters. The author’s use of direct speech throughout this text gives the reader a good understanding on what the characters are doing.
Kids learn more vocabulary and cite words. They should ban books from school because some contain inappropriate things. Some books my encourage racism towards groups of people. Another reason is because not all books are appropriate for certain groups of people. Small children should not be exposed to books with dirty language or books with sexual context. I know in my experience that there are some books that are "unchristian" and people should not be exposed to those type of thing. Sometimes I had nothing better to do after school while waiting for the bus so I would go to the library and just look for cool books.
Reading was my worst enemy in Middle school. Teachers always assigned us books or articles for research papers. My problem was that I could never get excited about reading the material. I have always been an action kind of person and the boring old history books, teachers assigned us weren’t action packed enough for my taste. So, my solution to the problem was to have my own little taste to the story but still stay on topic. I used descriptive words to make a boring scene sound more exciting. Adding this new taste to books for papers made my reading level sky rocket and made me become a better
... student from comprehending a text. How can a student understand a given text if the student does not understand a big portion of words in the text? Students enter school with vocabularies whether big or small and teachers need to nourish and build them up and comprehend harder and more complex texts.
Donald M. Murray, in this article entitled “Reading as a Reader” is talking about how reading is an unique, an essential, and a necessary aptitude for human beings in their society. While illustrating his point of view, the author stresses on the idea that our attitudes towards reading is directly linked to the systematic approaches we have while facing a article or a book. In this article, he said that: “If we approach a text believing that we are not readers, or that we can’t read, that attitude may make it more difficult for us to understand the challenging text.”(Murray, 2). Throughout those words, Murray emphasizes that we should consider the process of reading as a learning process, and as a way of deepening the capacity we have as readers. We should have an open-mind while engaging with a reading, and understand that it may always not be our fault if it comes that the text we are reading is difficult. In clear, it is all part of the process of improving ourselves. Then, Murray, in his well structured writing, portrays differents types of reading and also gives us some tips on how to approach them.
The authors’ main argument in “Rhetorical Reading Strategies & The Construction of Meaning” is that reading is both a constructive and discourse act, in which readers must construct meaning of a text. The authors of this article, Christina Haas and Linda Flower conducted a study in which they used a think-aloud protocol to analyze the participants’ thoughts and understanding of the text after they had read aloud. The authors also noticed that the more experienced readers used rhetorical reading strategies which contributed to a more efficient understanding of difficult texts. Despite the study, readers should use combine prior knowledge and careful reading along with the ability to read a text on several levels rather than being limited to
Through these resources, activities, and strategies, students are able to make progress into distinguishing the main idea and supporting details in reading texts. Through this they are also able to organize thoughts to develop a topic sentence and moreover use supporting facts and details. Many of the resources and activities done in this lesson allowed the students to think for themselves and make educated guesses based on the information given. Moreover they were allowed multiple opportunities to share with one another about heir thought
Strategies necessary to comprehend informational text are different from those needed to comprehend literature (source), and since adults primarily read informational texts, these skills will be beneficial as students grow older (Kane, 2008). Moreover, since prior knowledge is necessary to understand texts (source), each subject requires its own reading skills.
To accomplish vocabulary development, before reading the teacher needs to instruct their students on any prerequisites that they need to understand to interpret the text appropriately. This means the teacher has to pull out the most important words as well as those that may be too difficult for the stud...
...ns. I know the students will have to hear how that word is used several times before remembering it, whether it’s heard at home or school. Even though these are 1st graders, I would introduce the dictionary to them and explain that it contains meanings of words in it. I would chose two vocabulary words a week for them to learn out of the book I would read to them for that week. I would also provide them with worksheets and have them to write short sentences with the words to help them learn the meaning of the word.
In this paper, I will analyze reading strategies for the content area of language arts in a fifth grade class. Reading comprehension is one of the most critical skills a student can master. Without a firm grasp on the comprehension process, learners will struggle in every subject they encounter, whether it’s science, math, or social studies as well as everyday living skills. The content areas typically included disciplines like science, social studies/history and math, but any area outside of English literature instruction constitutes a content area. The reading associated with content area courses reflects not only the concepts and ideas important to these subjects, but also the text structures used by those practicing the field.
It is important that when selecting complex text educators look for specific factors that would meet each reader’s needs. These factors include language proficiency, background knowledge and experiences, and level of motivation. Depending on the factors mentioned, the educators can differentiate the instruction to meet the needs of the students where they could read a text and apply strategies learned. It is important to understand the text complexity because we do want readers to read text which are not challenging enough or that are extremely challenge that would make their self-efficacy low. Therefore, when Fisher & Frey (2012) stated the factors to take into consideration when selecting a text are established, readers would interact with the text. Moreover, the use of comprehension strategies like question and answer relationships (Reutzel & Cooter, 2016) would help the readers comprehend the text as they read
comprehension instruction: A comparison of instruction for strategies and content approaches ―[Electronic version]. Reading Research Quarterly, 44(3), 218–253.
In the contemporary era, if you don’t have any desire or need for information, there will be no good future for you. Life is very much pre-determined. Books not only increase your intellect but also influence your reading and writing skills. Books can be read again and again as they are the most credible and precious media of mass communication.