I Had A Hard Time With Reading Comprehension

In the late 1960s and 1970s, reading comprehension was taught by asking students various questions after reading a passage and noting their skills as to what they understood, how they followed directions and noted details. In 1978, Dolores Durkin observed a variety of teachers teaching reading instruction in both reading and social studies classrooms. She found that these teachers spent less than 1% of their time actually teaching children how to understand texts. Unfortunately over the years

CASE STUDY RESEARCH REPORT Case Study Research Report Melva Yousaf Grand Canyon University: RDG 581 August 3, 2011 Introduction The purpose of this study is to find ways to help a child improve their reading test scores. How is it that a child who reads two grades above their level cannot perform well when it comes to taking state assessments? Is it the teacher or is the child playing around when it comes to taking tests? Maybe the child can read really

Reading Autobiography My life as a reader has been like a rollercoaster, I had ups and downs. There had been times where I would read regularly and my reading level would go up and there had been times where I completely stopped reading and my reading level dropped drastically. Reading is something that is taught to everyone in their early childhood, the time I learned to read I was very fond of books. I loved to read novels to myself and to read them out loud to my sister. I like reading action

To determine Bailey’s reading level, she was given reading assessments including the Bursuck & Damer Advanced Phonics Diagnostic assessment and a Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI-6) which includes a word identification list. The phonics assessment was given to help analyze her phonic awareness and phonics skills to determine if she had an understanding of letter/sound correlation which will affect decoding ability. The evaluation tested numerous phonics aspects including several vowel combinations

implants lack in the development of phonological processing and reading skills. The mode of communication was a contributing factor in the level of which each student was performing in the area of reading. The research in this article focuses on comprehension levels of students who wear cochlear implants. It can help others gain further understanding about why children who are deaf significantly struggle in many areas of reading and comprehension. The research that indicates that my solution to the identified

area of reading comprehension. I administered the fifth grade level passage of the words per minute assessment, all of my students were reading at an independent level, but struggle to read the text fluently, thus affecting their comprehension. Most of the students scored 3/5 on comprehension part of the assessment. Based on this data it is clear that my students need some aspects of fluency instruction. Because I had seven students total in my class, I did a whole class choral reading lesson with

Building Comprehension Skills Brittany Cronin COE 501—Introduction to Research and Evaluation in Education Fall B 2014 Dr. Ray Ostos Building Comprehension Skills Walk into any school and you will hear the word comprehension. Comprehending text is a necessity for all students in all grade levels as well as individuals entering college and beyond. With the launch of the Common Core State Standards, students need to be able to show their comprehension of text numerous ways, and if the students

monitoring assignment, I first reviewed the students’ assessments data provide for the assignment, and using the provided decision tree guide I determined the students’ levels based on the FSP (RC, Maze, and WA) scores. Once I had determined their level or “box results” I filled the decision tree form in by order of the box results column. I chose to order the results by that column to help make choosing student groups easier. Once all the students’ data was filled in the next step I took was to fill

What is reading comprehension? Comprehension is the “process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with the written language” (Snow, 2002, p.11). Knowing different reading strategies is a great way for students work on building their comprehension skills. “Comprehension strategies are conscious, deliberate, and flexible plans readers use and adjust with a variety of texts to accomplish specific goals.” (Dole, Duffy, Roehler, & Pearson, 1991; Lenski

than I had anticipated. To begin with, I know that I did not do the “check for understanding” pieces that I had incorporated into my lesson. Before reading the book, I was going to have students give me a thumbs up if they could describe to me what a problem was in a story and a thumbs down if they didn’t know how to describe what a problem in the story is. I still asked students to explain what a problem was, but I did not do the quick formative assessment that I just described. Another time when