Language And Literacy Paper

In “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction,” James Paul Gee introduces a new approach for thinking about Literacy. Rather than think of literacy in terms of language (grammar), Gee suggests that we think of it in terms of social practice (5). Gee claims that this approach has important and interesting consequences.

What is the problem you are addressing? Students have to learn the names and sounds of the letters in order move on into more advance connections that will lead them into success in reading and writing. Traditional teaching methods in our schools allow students to make the connections between letter prints and phonemes using mostly visual and auditory learning styles. This early reading task is not easy for beginners (Ehri, Deffner & Lee, 1984, p. 880). In order to ease the difficulties young scholars might encounter while learning sound to letter graphic representation, multi sensory teaching

17. Write answers in paragraphs in response to two of the following questions. Each answer should be approximately 200 words. Support your answer with specific references to Still Stands the House. Organize your ideas to express them clearly and coherently.

When it comes to teaching English Language Learners, math is often an under researched topic because it is thought to be a language of numbers (Janzen, 2008). A misconception that many educators share is that because math uses symbols it is not associated with language or culture (Bresser, Melanese &Sphar, 2009). Not all English Language Learners are the same, and often times ELLs enter a new classroom that requires proficiency on both mathematical and linguistic levels. ELLs come in with different levels of schooling, some come from a situation where they have been attending school regularly, so the transition is not as hard as it is for the students who really have not attended school on a regular

After reading the article “Literacy Debate: Online, R U really reading?” by Motoko Rich, I believe that the internet is very beneficial in many ways but I also believe reading books is important at certain times. As being a teenager the internet has become a far better source when it comes to research. The internet is very quick on answers unlike books where you have to flip through pages for an answer to a simple question. Now why would someone choose to do more when they can do less with a simple click of a button? The internet is very useful; without the internet we wouldn’t have been able to have the opportunity to have this discussion here. On the contrary, the internet might be much faster with information but it is not always reliable.

Language has changed tremendously over the years which can be seen by the dwindling use of sophisticated vocabulary due to the fact that vocabulary used by other people has an influence on what words other people tend to use. Also, a person with higher authority, like the current President of the United States, language can cause a whole country filled with three hundred million people to say exactly what that person with power is saying. This is due to the fact that the leader has tremendous support which in result causes people to want to be like him/her. This changes their use of vocabulary which can cause an epidemic. In the case of President Trump, his simplified and overstated language is a true example of why sophisticated vocabulary

How much do you write or text on your phone, is it helping your academic writing or making it worse? Mashable tells us that, “the average teenager sends more than 3,000 texts per month. That's more than six texts per waking hour.¨ In the article, ¨The New Literacy¨, Clive Thompson explains, texting and online writing makes your academic writing better because, students write more, they write for audiences, and are learning new ways to write.

In “The Symbolic Language of Dreams”, Stephen King speaks in depth about his writing process. King has written over fifty novels and sold over three hundred and fifty thousand copies worldwide. Most of us cringe at the thought of re-living some of our worst nightmares, but that’s not the case for novelist Stephen King. He uses his dreams and nightmares to sculpt his stories to his liking. King believes that dreams are the way our minds translate the nature or solution to our problems, and speaks in depth about this connection with his writing process. In “The Symbolic Language of Dreams”, Stephen King reveals that writing and dreaming are closely correlated, and writers prefer

Valuing Language Study: Inquiry Into Language for Elementary and Middle Schools written by Yetta M. Goodman in 2003, explores language in its entirety and how it relates to students. Goodman has performed research in early literacy, reading, and writing processes, and has published over 160 works. In this book she concentrated on ideas such as critical moment teaching, strategy lessons, linguistics, literature and power. She offered the reader ideas of activities and investigations to use in the classroom to provide students with a better understanding of how the language they use affects their everyday lives. These examples can be modified to fit the needs of elementary and middle school classrooms. The activities force students to reflect on ideas such as “correct” language, language as control, inventing language, social issues, and more. These are all ideas we have explored and will continue to investigate in this course.

I firmly believe that my experiences working with children, as well as my experiences as a student, facilitated my growth, knowledge, and understanding of literacy throughout this course, as I found myself relating my own experiences to those presented in the required readings, chats, handouts, and assignments.

The Literacy Test was used to enable African Americans from voting. It was an underhanded method that basically ridiculed the intelligence of black people and maintained white dominance in politics.

Fortunately, there are many ways to specialize a master of education in literacy. This is because literacy is becoming more important as educators and the public realize that literacy aptitude is closely linked with success in school, work and life. Therefore, there are many degree programs available for educators to gain a master of education in literacy and become a great academic asset in learning organizations.

After the teacher taught the students what the word “the” meant and how it needed to be used in their flipbook, she allowed them to go back to their desks to work on the assignment individually. Some students had a difficult time staying focused and completing their work in a timely manner while others hurried through the task just to get it done. To me this indicated that students either did not understand the directions or could not complete the work because they didn’t get what to do. Since students were expected to read their finished product to an adult, I think that many students took a long time to complete their work because they were worried that they would not be able to read

The article “Relations Between the CCSS and RTI in Literacy and Language” begins with explaining that there is decline in learning literacy and literacy knowledge in students. Response to Intervention (RTI) and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS-EL) are considered the solution to the literacy problem (Wixson, 2012). The authors of the article go in to great detail to explain RTI and CCSS and there collaboration in the process of improving literacy and language.

Word Recognition Process. The “Rose Report” (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2006), an independent report examining best practice in teaching reading produced for the United Kingdom’s Department of Children, Schools and Families (formerly the Department for Education and Skills), depicts the following process for word recognition (see Figure 1 below). When children hear a word, they relate that to their store of word meanings and word sounds, to later process the word and pronounce the word aloud. Developing word recognition skills includes such components as letter recognition, acquisition of essential phonics rules and grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPCs), and building of vocabulary, all of which can be tested by the EGRA