Implementation Methods : Independent Choice Reading

Who should choose the books for the class to read, teachers or students? I support the decision to let students pick the reading for next school year. The first reason is that students will be more focused on the book because they like it. Next, students will get good grades because they have actually read it. Lastly, they understand it more because they picked their level.

Reading is boring, I hate reading. These are two common sentences that you hear before and after ELA class. This is because they are reading a book that is boring to them and they are not interested in that book. They are being forced to read rather than reading something that they will enjoy. This is why choice reading matters. Choice reading allows the student to be able to read what they want. This way reading becomes more of a hobby and less of a boring task to the student. Choice reading not only brings pleasure but it allows you to travel to faraway places, to imagine different world, to learn about different cultures and to learn about some of the top minds of history.

Parents should have the right to decide what their child reads, but should not have the right to decide what is right for other children to read because not all parents have the same view on what is appropriate for their child to learn in school; as Jones stated, we must all respect each other’s differences. Educators should also be able to freely decide on what they feel is appropriate for their students to read. If a teacher chooses a book that has caused concerns in the past, they should alert the student’s parents of

The intervention used first was the Peer-Mediated instruction with repeated reading (PRR). During this phase, the students were seated across from each other. The students were then given a copy of the passage, one in which to read, and the other in which to mark the time and note any errors observed, along with a stopwatch. Both students began reading from the selected text for the pair for a duration of twenty minutes at the beginning of the class. Next, the “paired reading” time consisted of each student taking turns reading using only a whisper. To ensure the fidelity of the intervention, measures were taken to ensure that one student didn’t have to be the first reader every time. During the read aloud, the student who wasn’t reading would follow protocol and read the following sentence “Stop. That word is _______. What word? Yes, ________. Please read that sentence again.” After the paired reading time, the reader would then be asked to read

The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids and “Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new technologies” show how children are targets in marketing. They both show the bad points marketers do to get children to buy their product. For example, on Webkinz they have you watch free ads to earn virtual money but they get money every time you click the “free ad” button on the site while in The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids, Anna Lappe from Real Food Media Project mentions that junk food is etched in the kid’s mind. In Myth of of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids shows how marketers target kids in the case of junk food while “Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new technologies” shows how

A study carried out last year showed 82% of doctors said they had prescribed or carried out a treatment which they knew to be unnecessary. The main reason being patient pressure or patient expectation. Choosing Wisely is a global initiative to tackle this and reduce over-medicalisation. the initiative aims to advise doctors and patients to have a more informed conversation about the risks and benefits of all treatments and procedures. The initiative could lead to patients getting a better outcome from an illness and treatment while saving the NHS billions.

Students work independently or within groups during center time which allows teachers to differentiate instruction according to student’s needs. Literacy centers give students control of their literacy tasks while providing the teacher time to work in small groups and focus on specific skills. “Choice is an important feature in making literacy work stations successful” (Diller 2003). Using Big Book’s as a literacy work station in the classroom provides students a place where they can practice reading new text and reread familiar text previously taught.

What does it mean to read independently? Especially at the early levels, “Reading with books and working with books are two different things.” What does it look like, sound like? I think the reminder for me here is that Debbie Miller says, “ This continues throughout the year in different iterations and contexts. As students need reminders, or as their reading needs change, it is important to review the principles of what it means to read independently.

1. Write the six questions of the Wise Choice Process and answer each one as it relates to your situation

But, each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.” The option should be out there for all to choose whether or not they read a book.

The goal of Choice-Making Strategies allows the child to indicate their preferred want as well as provide an opportunity to communicate. Choices can be presented throughout the day in a variety of settings such as meal time, playtime, and daily routines. This goal consists of offering two favorable objects to encourage the child to participate in play. The communication process will be determined and accepted when the child reaches out to touch the desired item at least five times a day for 2 weeks.

Did Amir from the novel The Kite Runner have a choice when it came to his actions towards the situation in the alley with Hassan? In my opinion, I believe that Amir had a choice when he saw the situation playing out in the alley as there are always different potential choices that can be made in every situation in life. There’s always different ways a situation can end up going and the direction it takes is based on the choices people make. I personally don’t believe that Amir didn’t have a choice in this situation, although some may argue that ignoring the situation was all he could have done.

Most of the other students in her 2nd grade classroom are able to read classroom text and complete work independently. They also read books for enjoyment on their own. The reading time in her classroom consists of a block during which the teacher works with small groups and the children are expected to work quite independently when they are not working directly with the teacher. The class uses a trade book format and this is utilized across the curriculum. Students are provided with short skills building lessons in large and small groups. Most of the time spent during explicit reading instruction is targeted to helping students develop reading fluency.

After reading the assignment, the answer to every question is smart choices. Here is why:

Independent reading involves a child reading on their own and applying skills observed from a parent reading aloud or from guided and shared reading with a teacher.