An Reader 's Creation Of Meaning

The ability to recall the parts of a story and determine the main idea of a reading passage is the basis for skills such as inferencing, sequencing, and overall comprehension of what has been read. Based on this knowledge, this author would address Jose’s ability to recall main story elements and therefore understand the main idea of the reading passage first.

Introduction to reading comes through phonetic reading boxes. The reading boxes are cleverly organized, going from simple to the complex. Reading does not follow the same process of writing, which is taking our own thoughts and symbolizing. When we read, it is not our language with which we are working with, it is the author’s language. Reading is the analysis of the language followed by a synthesis. Story telling and socio-dramatic play in the environment can help the child develop an imagination that fosters a higher capability to understand what is being read to them.

Books are some of the best teachers we have “they teach us vocabulary social skills and new ways of thinking”(leigh). It’s also true that textbooks could teach a child this, but not in the way they would learn from a story. When a child is really engaged in a story they will learn a lot more than they think. “Books teach us history ”(leigh). and many books are based on certain time periods or cover certain events. When a child reads these stories, they will retain the

Reading the story as told by a young child gives the audience a deeper understanding about what the next

In The Making of Meaning, Anne E. Berthoff presents the text Learning the Uses of Chaos that will be analyzed in the essay to understand the argument presented. The author brings about the concept of composing in writing and pays particular attention to the process of composing. While the author is concerned about the composing process and the generating and using chaos in writing, the latter has not been discussed in details. The title of the text, which is learning the Use of Chaos, has not been clearly established. Additionally, the relationship between the chaos and the process of composing is not well articulated.

Victor Emil Frankl was born on March 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria. He was a Neurologist and a psychiatrist; Frankl was the founder of Logo therapy too. In 1941, Frankl gets married to Tilly Grosser. Frankl graduated from the University of Vienna in which he got his MD and PHD in neurology and psychiatry, with that he concentrated on areas of suicide and depression. In 1942, Frankl and his family were arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp; Frankl’s father Gabriel dies months later of exhaustion. As years move on Frankl goes through four concentration camps, one of the most populated camp in Germany

There were three sentences in her sample to retell the story related to the text and all were structured in the same way, the sentence beginning then in the text it says and then evidence given from the text. The student does not get a chance to voice her opinion or provide stronger descriptive words. During reading partners the student is working on retelling mainly the gist of the stories along with learning to sequence and this is then portrayed within her writing. During the retell of many stories, she is able to summarize in words everything she read, when asked to write this sequence down the student is unable to fully and complete write the words without the sentence stems and evidence from the text.

Ever analyzed a picture book before? The colors, shapes, and underlying message on every inch of the page create a story. A story that makes your brain tick and contemplate what exactly you’re looking at. These things are significant to the constant development of a human being, but the specifically to a child.

Common misconceptions within my literacy central focus may include students believing that when they retell a story, they are rereading the book to someone. This misconception will be addressed in my learning segment through discussion and interactive modeling. Through discussion, I will explain to the students that when they retell a story they are using their own words and not the authors words. This will be practiced when the students are retelling the story through role-playing. The Three Billy Goats Gruff does have many lines that the students will memorize, therefore the teacher will need to point out that students can include those lines when they are retelling the story because it provides extra detail to the person they are retelling

The author depicts the differences between how the child understands the story. A child that consciously views the story knows and could tell about the real meaning or hidden message of the story while a child that unconsciously views the narration could not tell about what happened in the story because they do not grasp the full message intended to be taken away from the

As children are attentive to storytellers, they listen to inflexions in words as presented in a compelling way; in fact, expanding their vocabulary helps them when interacting with their peers. According to Friedman’s second important position, storytelling offers the certain literary devices that contribute to enhancing children’s memory capacities. By listening and imagining characterization, anticlimax, and conclusion, toddlers are able to expand their intellectual horizons overall. Friedman employs poetic prose in her stories, which allows her listeners to memorize new words and understand their significance for the narrative. When Friedman was narrating the stories to the two-year-old Carey, she only relied on her memory to build critical positions of the plot, as well as important characters’ names.

This is a way for the students to understand what they are reading and to be able to put what they are learning from this story and from their teachers into what they will learn later on in school.

Young children are like sponges; they absorb information like a sponge absorbs water. It is essential for them to be emerged in an environment in which they can absorb positive information so that one day they can become contributing members of our society and have a better future. For this reason, there is a pronounced importance on providing enriching environments for children to learn and develop appropriately. One of the ways that this can be achieved is through a literacy rich environment specifically with the use of story reading and storytelling.

Encourages children to read familiar stories independently by relating illustrations to the text. (Vukelich & Christie, 2004, p.8)

Interpretive reading is very important in many ways to the modern world. Interpretive reading which forms the larger part of the art of public reading is fun, informative, challenging but needs some day to day strategies to be successful. (39 words)