Reading Recovery is a short-term intervention designed for children who are struggling in reading and writing. This program can help children who are unable to read the simplest of books. The intervention involves intensive one-to-one lessons for 30 minutes a day with a trained literacy teacher, for between 12 and 20 weeks.
This program promotes literacy skills and nurtures the development of reading and writing strategies by tailoring the lessons depending on the student's educational needs.
In addition, we observed the age group of the mentees, because the community-wide initiative seeks to improve the third-grade reading proficiency of those enrolled in the program. As seen in figure 2, there were a majority (35%) of 6 year olds represented. There were also a substantial (32%) number of 7 year olds. Furthermore, there was a comparative population of males and females. (Figure 3)
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to one tutoring for low-achieving first graders. The intervention is most effective when it is available to all students who need it and used as a supplement to good classroom teaching” (Cox, 254).
Literacy Collaborative is high quality program oriented around rigorous instruction and purposeful teacher-student interactions. It is a framework based on authentic, global, and holistic language acquisition, which include both reading and writing workshops. Within this framework teachers differentiate instruction through flexible grouping such as whole-class, small group and/or individualized instruction. Additionally, teachers create opportunities for students to engage in targeted activites throught the utilization of interactive and shared reading experiences as well as tailored vocabulary and phonologica awareness lessons designed to met individual needs. The Literacy Collaborative framework strives to ehance student learning through engagement, purpose, systematic routines, data based instruction, and targeted interventions. Students are encourage to beome an active participant in their learning experience through student choice, open-ended question, and targeted
On February 9th at 7:00 PM, there was a 12-step program held in Christ the King Luther Church. The formal name of the 12-step program is Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA). When I researched for my 12-step group, I was trying to attend eating disorder Anonymous (EDA) because, in the culture of Korea, lots of Women are secretly struggling with bulimia nervosa and binge eating. However, during my research, I found FA which trying to focus on the fundamental cause of eating disorder and obesity, food. FA is a program of recovery based on the twelve step of alcoholics anonymous, and its take from within the context of overeater anonymous. “OA meetings were united by a shared definition of abstinence; the requirement
Special Aspect of the Program: The program is child-centered and includes phonics and whole language program to develop necessary learning skills to be successful in elementary school.
Creating and implementing effective lessons for a literacy learner who is struggling with reading and writing takes much effort and appropriate resources. Throughout the Literacy Development course, I have gained much insight and resources that have become valuable tools in addressing students’ literacy needs. Each week, I conducted lessons and activities that targeted the needs of many students, but my initial focus on was on one particular student. His individual reading level, spelling development, and writing abilities were analyzed and the recorded data was used
Mr. Harvey Johnson is a 62 year old African American male. He has been married for 36 years, have four adult daughters, and four grandsons. Mr. Johnson has been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and is 80% service connected.
The use of formal and informal reading assessments provide important data that allow educators to identify at risk students (Tompkins, 2010). The data collected from the assessments address any factors that may prohibit the development of students’ reading and writing skills. In addition to the assessments, the more an educator can learn about students’ backgrounds and their past reading, language development, and writing experiences the more instructional strategies can be designed to specifically meet the needs of diverse learners in the classroom.
Aware of the need of a summer program in Whitakers, and Enfield I developed a 6 week summer literacy program, named “Quest to the Future”, this program is designed to meet the needs, and build on the strengths, of students who may have struggled along their literacy path. Activities for children feature cooperative play and included indoor/outdoor games, arts and crafts, healthy cooking, summer garden, aqua Zumba, taekwondo, line dancing, swimming, sewing, and field trips. Furthermore, the program focus on areas of interest: science, sports, acting, creative thinking,
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Throughout the years, many processes have been created to form the rehabilitation process of criminal justice. This process has reached out to many offenders and their families by allowing them to return to the community as changed individuals. Rehabilitation has many different process, but most, if not all have been proven successful in returning offenders to the community as changed individuals.
The components of my literacy program will work together. I will incorporate shared reading and writing, guided reading and writing, independent reading and writing, read alouds and write alouds, and cooperative reading and writing within my classroom.
I stepped off the bus and to my surprise, my mom was not there. I looked around and spotted my brother Paul waiting for me. He told me my mother was in the hospital with my oldest brother, Jason, who had just been in a car accident which left him with a broken neck, shoulder and forearm. The experience of his recovery inspired me to look at life differently. I believe everything happens for a reason, I spend more time with my family and I look up to my brother.
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• Systematic instruction of the elements of the language that relate to reading. These students need everything taught step-by step.