What Did I Learn In English Class

I didn’t always enjoy reading and writing.Yes, I know what you’re thinking: what an ignorant. Well, it’s true. My relationship with reading and writing has been an emotional rollercoaster, with soaring highs and disheartening lows.In fact, I started working on essays until I was sixteen. However, by some chance it has led me to where I’m at today, and for that I am most happy.

Student N gave a thumbs-middle for “I am comfortable reading aloud in class.” I shared with him that even as a teacher I am not always comfortable reading in front of people. Student N also shared that sometimes they are comfortable, but it just depends on what they are reading. This will help me build our classroom culture and reflect on how we respect and respond to peers when they are reading or if they make a mistake. I want all students to feel comfortable practicing their reading

It wasn’t till she asked “How does it feel not being able break down the morals of the story given to you?” I said that it made me sad and frustrated because I wanted to succeed and do my best and it felt like I am letting my family down. After that she told me you see what you just did right there, you told me how you felt without hesitation or over thinking the question. After she explained that to me it became easier for me and I felt proud and accomplished that I understood reading and writing on all sides of the cylinder. When I was going to school my teachers always praised me about my work and how I always did great in class. Another problem started to develop though; I started to get scared because a lot of people saw me as the odd ball of the class because I was all about my business and my work when I went to

The course definitely changed the way I approached writing a paper. One day in lecture you quoted Ernest Hemmingway saying, “The first draft of anything is shit.” This changed the way I approached and wrote papers. I used to start papers the night before, barely look over them and making few changes. This course encouraged me to outline, write a rough draft and constantly review then finalization the paper. Peer review before this class I though was pointless because most student hardly pay attention to the paper and usually wrote “good job.” The students in the class actually read my paper and gave honest feedback and ways to improve it. Also to have a teacher read your draft and give feedback with what is wrong and ways to help the quality of the paper helped greatly. This English class was definitely different than high school English.

It’s kind of crazy how stories you read can bring so many mental pictures in your mind of things you can relate to it. In Bobbie Ann Mason’s story, “Being Country”, I related very well to the country style of living. I, myself, lived in a very small country town in Texas, and know people just like the “country people” noted in Mason’s story.

Sabina is the kindest and most polite student I heve ever seen. She listens carefully to the task has given by teacher. She enjoys listening center during the daily five time. She loves to read books and she reads books very well but unable to answer the questions when ask in english. However, she chooses to demonstrate her understanding with ellustrations of the story. Sabina is working on reading books using expresion and out loud by stopping at punctuation marks.

What does reading like a writer mean? I can state the obvious and assume there's reading involved but what else is it? After researching articles along with class discussions, I've found that reading like a writer is being involved with the text. There is interaction involved when reading articles, which includes steps or strategies in order to find information and ideas in authors writing. In this essay, I will be discussing what the steps are and why they are important.           One strategy used for interacting with the text is analyzing it, unlike reading in general where you read for its contents, this differs. When reading like a writer you're  analyzing the structure of a text. For example, if an author starts a paper off with a quote, you could attempt to analyze what point the writer was trying to make but; ultimately we won't know unless we asked the author ourselves. Instead of doing this we can question what effect the technique had on us.For example, did that quote lead you to a conflict, set a certain emotion on you, etc. Analyzing the effect can help you understand their claim, or give you an idea of what the article will be about. Essentially analyzing a text is looking for writing techniques used in an essay

: When I was in preschool which was when I was about 4 or 5 years old, I saw all of the teachers reading and I wanted to learn for myself how to read. I went home and I asked my mom "Can you help me learn how to read please." So my mom and I began the slow and steady practice of reading. I was persistent to learning how to read at a young age because I felt like it was something no other kid my age would want to do at that age. I started with simple books for about 8 months

Reading is a basic skill that students develop and improve throughout their whole life. There will always be room to improve a person’s reading skills; whether they be nine or ninety, one’s brain will always be building and making new connections and like Jonathan Seagull, one should strive to improve.

The strength of the research by Kucan and Palincsar lays in the Identification of a struggling reader and the importance of the teachers to dedicate one on one time with their students in an interactive atmosphere which allows early assessment with rich texts and bearing in mind, other factors such as home, which can contribute in this problem.

She believes reading can be boring if the book she is reading is boring. Moreover, she only likes to read when an adult is with her because she finds that some words are difficult to pronounce. Although she does not know some of the words in the book, it does not change her mind from loving reading and independently reading the books she likes. She believes that it is the teacher’s job to help students with their work and help them learn to read.

In the second grade class of Mrs. F’s class, Carmen is one of her students that is having challenges with reading. Carmen is a seven-year-old girl that is extremely outgoing and loves to help her peers. She is currently performing at a low reading level but is hard working on improving her reading and writing. When doing the letter identification assessment she was comfortable with me in comparison to the first time we worked together. She was confident with the process of the assessment and was not shy asking questions about a letter. My second interaction with Carmen, she was more open to talking to me and becoming interactive with the assessments. Knowing that Carmen is more comfortable with the assessment will allow me to help her see her full potential in improving her reading skills.

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.

Throughout my time writing at the City College of New York, I experienced a slow and dramatic transition to my first semester of this college course. During that time, I've learned from several feedback and lessons from certain peers and my professor. Because of the strict comments written in my drafts by my professor, a few helpful suggestions to include in my writing, and a few miserably failures, I was able to see how my writing and habits have changed during the duration of this course. Back in high school, I was always comfortable writing only five paragraph essays (Introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion), but I've never expected to write something more complex. Here, I was encouraged to include as much detail as I can instead of writing something vague

I wouldn’t say that I am a good writer, and I really don’t like to read books either. Through my years in school I became literate in these two categories. I was and still am not interested in writing, or reading books in my spare time. The only writing I have ever done is for school. Writing just does not interest me, and the only reading I do out of class is reading about sports in magazines, or reading the news, or looking at web pages. I have only read a couple of books on my own, 95% of all the books I have read have been for school. The reason for not writing out of class is probably attributed to the fact that I am a very impatient person, and I have a short attention span. I have no interest in writing and reading so when