How To Improve My Literacy Skills

Trezek and Wang (2006) evaluated the effectiveness of utilizing the Reading Mastery I program (Engelmann & Brunner, 1995) supplemented by Visual Phonics with kindergarten and first-grade d/Dhh students. Three teachers in a Total Communication program and 13 students were included in the study that lasted over 8 months. Students’ degree of hearing loss ranged from severe to profound, and two of the first graders wore cochlear implants. Students were divided into three groups based on their age for instructions.

Until the age of five, I had the inability to speak properly. When attempting to communicate with someone, I would know the message I was trying to convey, but the other person would have no idea of what I was saying. In preschool, this problem continued, so the school gave me a speech specialist. With the help of this specialist, I was able to learn how to make my thoughts clear (as much as a child could).

During this tutorial process I was able to learn so many new strategies, skills, classroom management tips, and gather tons of new resources. Going into this process I was very unsure of what to expect in a 3rd grade classroom, and especially having to tutor a 3rd grade male student. There are many new things I learned working with my tutee and this class that I had not learned in any other classes thus far. I learned the true importance of getting to know your students and allowing them to get to know you. At the beginning of the process I set the tone of getting to know each other and making sure he knew I was there to help him and not cause him more work. I learned that it could be very difficult finding resources that align with your student’s interest; therefore sometimes creating lessons took longer. I learned that 3rd graders are very independent, and most of them prefer to do things on their own. Teaching reading has always seemed slightly difficult to me, but this process gave me a better perspective on it. When lessons and reading are relevant to a student’s life or interest, the student will excel much higher than forcing a student to read a random book that isn’t fit for them.

One of the most eye opening experiences of my life occurred in the second grade. I would have never thought that doing one simple assignment in elementary school could change my whole perspective on literacy. My understanding of literacy was sparked when I had read my first real book. I remember sitting down on the vividly colorful carpet day dreaming about playing Mario Cart on my Nintendo 64 while everyone was obediently listening to the teacher read a book out loud. It wasn’t that I did not know how to read or listen, I just didn’t care. Reading to me used to be tedious because I did not understand the purpose of it. I did not grow up with the luxury of my parents reading to me because they weren’t literate in English, so I had to figure out for myself why literacy is vital in everyday life. My ongoing learning experience with literacy can be traced back to one simple visit to library.

As a six-month-old baby books had opened up a whole entire new world of experience for me. My inspiration to learn how to read and write was encouraged by my Mother and Grandmother. This is because they read out loud to me before bed occasionally and gave me the best time of my life by introducing me to a library. By two years of age I developed speech and other communication skills. This helped me understand and develop a favorite book, “PJ Funny Bunny,” and I would stare at the pages pretending I was reading them. I would continually pretend to read with other Dr. Seuss books, Smurf pop-up books (I imagined I was a part of these for hours), sniff & scratches, and sensory books. I had just begun

As a child, I was faced with a lot of adversity. My grandmother raised my brothers and me. We lived on government assistance with little money and no car for transportation for extracurricular activities. The hardships we faced compelled me at a young age to stay in school, go to college, and make something of myself because I did not want to live a life limiting my dreams and opportunities. Throughout my academic career, there was not a specific moment that solidified my desire to pursue a profession in Speech- Language Pathology (SLP); instead, there were numerous. I initially became interested in this profession after learning how a child’s dysfluency was able to significantly improve. The gradual process of a client making substantial improvements

In general, the first time that I utilized this kind of literacy practice in the aspect how I see it now was in the United States. Even though I have studied in my home country the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but it was not like the way looked the education now. It is very different because of the community in both sides. Her in the United States the quality of education much higher.

I remember my love of books and how I was determined to learn how to read. Whether it was pretending to read, or my mom helping me. I remember reading out loud to my parents at home and writing little stories for my family to read. I still have some of the short stories I made when I was little. I would read and write everyday and I never got old of it. My writing skills are lot better now, obviously.

My literacy skills have grown and progressed throughout this course in the way that there have been a lot of things that I have learned and that I have been continuing to learn. When I first started this course, I did not know how to write an essay, I learned to use the before, during, and after reading technic, and I learned what a summary paragraph was. But now with this course, I have written a couple of assignments which have helped me keep learning.

The development of literacy has taken a number of years. The effort to explain how people have improved on their education using universal formulas has become useless. The growth of literacy is similar to designing a car. Many people with distinct elements are involved, and some of the factors might or might not be done in our control. There is no clear process of improving a person’s education. Therefore, it requires the efforts of those who are specialised in different phases of this development. There are those who help learners perform well in the lower levels while others offer their expertise in later stages of education. In addition to this, if all the people play their roles in the best possible ways and be able to learn from other

Literacy is defined as being literate, that is, being able to read and write in a language. My personal experience with literacy began at an early age, at the age of 4 when I began to sit and read words and letters in the back of my mother’s car. Soon enough, she would bring me a magazine called “Majed” which, in the 90’s, was a popular magazine. With this, I began even more interested in reading and writing and reviewed every word in the magazine associated with each of the short pictured stories. It was the first memory I deeply recall of literacy and it was what laid the foundation for my personal love of reading and writing. The methodology used for this is an interview. There are three interviews which are analyzed and brought together in the form of a narrative. This narrative serves to better explain the emotions and thoughts that the interviewees had about the idea of literacy.

My literacy skills began developing as every person would develop theirs. It all began by my grandmother telling me bedtime stories or sharing some of her childhood memories in Spanish were just the begginng in my life. Later on it started developing more as I started elementary school where my teachers would start teaching me the basic 27 Spanish alphabets or numbers and began shaping my reading and writing with the accents letters that were in the Spanish alphabet . In my point of view the reason I developed my literacy skills because it was a need .Anyone who wants to be successful in life had to know the basics of reading and writing. I became familiar after seeing many people in my hometown in Mexico where they didn’t know how to

Communication is very crucial in life, especially in education. Whether it be delivering a message or receiving information, without the ability to communicate learning can be extremely difficult. Students with speech and language disorders may have “trouble producing speech sounds, using spoken language to communicate, or understanding what other people say” (Turkington, p10, 2003) Each of these problems can create major setbacks in the classroom. Articulation, expression and reception are all essential components for communication. If a student has an issue with articulation, they most likely then have difficulty speaking clearly and at a normal rate (Turkington, 2003). When they produce words, they

During the summer of my 7th grade year I participated in Mercy Higher Achievement Program. In this program, we learned Math and English and practiced taking the high school placement test. Going into the program I was not really excited. I wasn’t so thrilled to basically be going to school for 2 weeks in my summer. Also going into the program, it was my first time doing anything at Mercy so I was pretty shy and nervous. Me not being the strongest test taker my first couple of days were hard. The first time taking the test was really a challenge, and I could not get my locker that I used open. The next couple of days were much better, I got to talk more with my future classmates and we did not do anymore tests, just learning. Learning math and

Starting elementary school, I was a very shy child which worked against me when it came to our class readings. Each student took turns reading sections of the stories our teacher provided, with me being so shy I often read quietly. I recall many times when my teacher asked me to speak up so others could understand what I was reading which most time I was embarrassed but ultimately led me to leaving my comfort zone. As middle school approached I felt scared but also prepared. My brother told me horror stories about his middle school experience which included doing speeches and reading papers he wrote aloud to his class. That frightened me enough to spend most of my summer preparing. I read five books that I can recall that summer and I also practiced my brother’s old vocabulary words. I went into the school year