Literacy Level And Educational Attainment

Disabled people often deal with many challenges every day. Tasks that normal people do daily are very delicate and difficult for disabled people. People with disabilities are treated differently than those who do not have a disability. A disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. Learning about people living with a disability can help overcome misinformation and misunderstanding. There are about seven billion people in the world. Approximately fifteen percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability. There are two types of disabilities - impairment and handicaps. While a disability is a life-changing challenges experience, most people find impressive and innovative ways to cope in their lives.

I completed my literacy field experience at Isanti Intermediate School/School for all Seasons in Isanti, MN. I was able to complete my 20 hour observation in a 1st grade classroom (primary), a 3rd grade classroom (intermediate), and conducted fluency tests in a 5th grade classroom. Each class had approximately 22 to 25 students. Also during this literacy class, I was also able to spend a few days observing a 3rd/4th grade classroom and a kindergarten classroom through a couple of sub jobs I completed. I need to note that my understanding was that 3rd grade was part of the intermediate program so I completed half my observation and assessment time with a 3rd grade classroom and completed a 3rd grader assessment. I am happy to say

Intergenerational literacy refers to the cycle of low literacy that exists in families. This paper will examine intergenerational illiteracy and programs that increase family literacy while decreasing high school dropout. To answer the question; Does intergenerational illiteracy affect educational achievement and what can be done to decrease intergenerational illiteracy and increase literacy education levels? This paper will analyze research that shows the connection between parental literacy and the lower educational attainment of children and will present solutions for increasing literacy in the family thus helping parents and potentially preventing high school dropout.

Regarding the literacy program at my high school, we have very few strengths. We do not perform with an outstanding rating in any of the characteristics on the Literacy Program Analysis Survey. The characteristics we rated adequately in include direct instruction, teacher modeling of processes, differentiation, and opportunities to write. We are most successful with direct instruction; our language arts department directly ties direct instruction to modeling. As one of the two language arts instructors, I can say with certainty that our department’s approach to writing instruction relies on the teacher modeling thinking processes. My senior class, for example, just finished their first critical analysis paragraphs as an entire class. We used our SmartBoard to compose compelling topic sentences, to identify the best possible pieces of support, and to develop our skills in elaboration. Students wrote their paragraphs down as we worked collaboratively, and they kept these to use as models for their own responses to a new article. As part of our daily instructional processes, all teachers are required to begin their classes with brief questions about the day’s objective to which students reply in written form. In this way, students are given opportunities every day to learn how to organize and elaborate on their own ideas

Numerous studies have documented the disparities in academic success between students from high socioeconomic status and low socioeconomic status, in many different measures- including high school completion rates, standardized test scores and college enrollment. A college degree has become virtually a necessity for upward mobility. It is also an indisputable fact that the first five years of life are crucial for lifetime success. Yet literacy gaps for children that come from low socioeconomic households are often exposed to stress, poverty, obesity, malnutrition and a lack of proper health care in their early childhood. The cumulative effect of these deficiencies leads to lasting impacts on learning, behavior, and health. Starting school with

Before we get too involved in the midst of this paper however, it should first be made clear what is meant by the term “disability.” According to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health from the World Health Organization (WHO) the medical and social

Rates of literacy in the United States depend on how education in public and private schools providing to students and how it is affecting them to build bright futures. American literacy rate has not been changed since ten years, that’s sounds really sad that we are not continuing with our American dream. Who should we blame for this downfall in nation 's education system? Our president, or department of education. Nobody will have better answers for our question. According to the study, which conduct by the National Institute of literacy, says over 36 million Americans can’t read. Over 21 percent of the population can’t read below 5th grade level. In addition, 19 percent of High School graduates can’t read. Who is responsible for this? Parents, students or government. 14 percent of our nation is at a below basic level of reading, which is alarming because being illiterate takes away the ability for an individual to provide a life for themselves without relying on the government. In addition, the fact that 85 percent of juvenile lawbreakers are at below basic reading levels shows that the less educated a person is, the more likely it is for them to end up committing crimes. Our nation should take this problem seriously and implement some programs, Associates with education across the country to help the adults in this country who don 't know how to read and write. Additionally, a quality education should be certified for every child in America so

The literacy crisis is a very prevalent issue in the United States of America. Many Americans are not proficient in basic skills, such as reading and writing. Sara Gilgore, a writer for Education Week, interviews two early learning experts, Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine. Guernsey states that, “more than two-thirds of American 4th graders are not reading at grade level in this country” (Gilgore). It is important for children at young ages to start building basic literacy skills because as children get older it will be harder for them to learn. This in turn will affect the child’s ability to learn and comprehend more advanced subjects in the future. Guernsey is surely right about elementary school students not being proficient in literacy because, as she may not be aware, recent studies have shown that twelfth grade students are also not adept at reading. Lynn Olson, a writer for Education Week, describes the results from a recent twelfth grade National Assessment of Educational Progress, “31 percent scored ‘below basic’ in mathematics, and 23 percent performed below basic in reading” (Olson). The percentages are already significant and if the U.S. continues not to do anything, then the amount of low performing students will continue to increase. Those unfamiliar with school systems may be interested to know that the type and quality of education a student is given, basically boils down to whether or not the school is located in an urban district and if the school

The first Disablement Model was developed by Saad Nagi and then International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH-1) to describe the impact of the health condition on an individual’s body through four elements; Active pathology, Impairment, Functional Limitations and Disability. There are three conceptual approaches for examining disability medical model (disability as a characteristic of person), social model (disability as socially created problem), biopsychosocial model (viewed as consequence of biological, personal and social forces). Biopsychosocial model is use now a day. The first Disablement Model was introduced by Nagi Than ICIDH and ICF. According to Nagi’s model few terminologies involved Active pathology

Since long time, disability is not seen as the issue of concern and it has not gained the attention as other severe topics such as gender, race or caste and persons with disabilities are perceived as invisible. Even till now a large proportion of Persons with Disabilities is not counted in global surveys as they are not accepted even by their families and are always kept hidden in the dark corners of the house. According to the World Health Organization (2011) more than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability severe enough that it limits their participation in family, community and political life and it accounts for 15% of the world’s population which is a very massive number in itself and in South-east Asia, the prevalence of disability ranges from 15% – 21.3% of the total population. According to world Health Organization (2013) 285 million people in the world are visually impaired – 28.5% of all persons with disabilities; 39 million (13%) of this population are blind; 19 million children (almost 13% of the 150 million children with disabilities) under the age of 15 have a visual impairment. Significantly, 49.5% of the world’s population is female, which suggests that nearly half of the children with visual impairment are females as well. The Global Burden of Disease measures childhood disabilities (0–14 years), which is estimated to be 95 million (5.1%) children, of whom 13 million (0.7%) have “severe disability” (WHO, 2011).

World Health Organization states that between 110 to190 million people have serious difficulties in functioning and this is about 15% of the world’s population having some form of disability. This increase is said to be partly due to the aging populations and increase of chronic health conditions.

By using the analysis of what children know and are able to do to plan next steps in instruction, I can help children reach their full language and literacy development potential by creating challenging and engaging lesson plans. Collecting and analyzing data on student strengths and weaknesses helps me determine what activities we should do in order to advance the student’s skills. In order to determine what my student knows and is able to do, I administered a Bader Reading and Language Inventory. This assessment provided me with information on his independent, instructional, and frustrational reading levels as well as his comprehension, accuracy, and fluency pertaining to varying grade-level passages. According to this assessment, my student’s

This paper explores related research in aspects of language acquisition, specifically, reading instruction and its effect on students who live in low socioeconomic environments. We will review the methods of explicit phonics and whole language to examine what, if any, is the more advantageous method of reading instruction for students who live in poverty. The purpose of this literature review is to investigate the impacts of specific reading instruction on the literacy development of children and how socioeconomics restricts these impacts. The research reviewed was collected from peer review journals using the Central Search feature on the UCO Chambers Library website. The majority of the researcher’s findings came from EBSCOhost Education Research Complete and JSTOR: Journal Storage. Given the findings of this literature review, research suggests that explicit phonics instruction, when embedded in a whole language classroom, promotes growth in literacy skills among young children. Research suggests that multisensory phonics, based on Orton-Gillingham Approach, promotes literacy growth for students who are at-risk, however, its impact within a whole language classroom are undetermined. This literature review suggests that multisensory phonics should be utilized in a whole language classroom to determine if its use promotes growth in

The constitution of India has guaranteed the right to equality, freedom, justice and dignity of all individual and implicitly mandates and inclusive society for all including person with disabilities. According to the 2001 census there are 2.19

Worldwide more than 1 billion people are living with disabilities, which means that an estimated 15% of the world population have some kind of disability [1]. Overall, 80% of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) live in developing countries, where resources are scarce and services less accessible. In Indonesia, an estimated 10% to 15% of the population is living with disabilities according to the data of Riskedas 2007 (riskedas?? source. Although the data vary widely based on different data source and criteria to define disability [2]. In all the data source the prevalence was higher in rural compare to urban regions and higher in women compare to men.