Silent Reading Observation

collaborative learning arrangement, and in these cases there was less interaction. The overall response to peer assessment as a learning experience was favourable, but students were unsure about its fairness and felt less comfortable

Dack travels all over the world inspiring his audiences with how awesome and beautiful ASL can be. I notice, Dack’s passion for sign language and storytelling truly comes out on the stage. His body language, facial expression, acting abilities made all his stories come alive. When Dack asked for volunteers, all the children jumped out of their seats, raising their hands with excitement. The entire audience was engaged with the performance, laughing at all the jokes. I notice that these all contributed to the warming atmosphere in the theater. On Saturday, November 11th the University of Minnesota Duluth ASL club offered a Deaf event presented by Dack Virning, a Deaf storyteller, and performer. His performance was broken up into a bunch of mini-stories, each individually illustrated through his

Much of the class seems to be primarily discussion-based, and the emphasis on talking with my fellow classmates about subjects such as racism, white privilege, sexism, homophobia, and other social issues helps create a very productive environment in which these topics can be discussed openly and with maturity and respect. The method of having students talk to other, individual classmates before the class as a whole reconvenes for discussion allows me to express and refine my thoughts about the readings, assignments and activities from class while also getting to know more about other students on a more personal level. I believe this has been invaluable in helping me learn because it establishes a sense of trust amongst students and creates a

The poem ‘During Wind and Rain’ by Thomas Hardy looks at his late wife Emma’s fond childhood memories and the contrast of what the passing of time brings. My essay will explore the devices Hardy uses to communicate the idea of passing time and what literary evidence suggests that Hardy could be deemed as a Victorian and a Modernist writer.

It should be mentioned before anything else that I thought the California School for the Deaf in Riverside was a college of some kind and that I would be communicating and learning from adults throughout the night. So, when I saw mostly grade school level children, with maybe a few high school level kids scattered throughout, manning the tables, I was, in one word, surprised. I wasn’t intimidated by being taught by someone so much younger than me, in fact, I was actually put at ease. The California School for the Deaf created such an excellent atmosphere and had a majority of the tables manned by such patient children that a ball of anxiousness and stress, such as myself, was able to feel calm in a room full of over at least a hundred strangers.

Hello Mrs. Rulison I hope you are having an amazing summer and is spending an awesome time with your family. While doing the summer assignment I was having trouble trying to figure out what exactly am I supposed to write about in my first paragraph in the Close Reading Exercise. I read the handout you gave us to help us while we are writing and I understand what each element it is trying to explain. However, what I am having trouble with is making the paragraph flow and not seem segmented or choppy. Thank you for the help and see you in August.

What are the educational pros and cons of incorporating social learning ideas into the classroom? Incorporating social learning in the classroom allows for students and teachers to discuss learning with interactive dialogue and instructional conversations. This approach can promote positive student interactions among peers and teachers. It will also allow for different interpretations and explanations of classroom content and material that may aid in the student understanding. For example, a peer explanation or discuss of classroom content may be better understand by a student will learning problems than we a teacher, or “expert” explains the material. A con to social learning would be if a student didn’t feel comfortable participating in these group discussions because of the lack of knowledge of the subject or because of the social pressures involved with speaking in front of their

upsides of having a fellow peer tutor you in a subject. In an anonymous survey

I have many beneficial experiences regarding peer reviews and in-class discussions, especially in my English 101 class. My instructor Jacob Frye uses a teaching method which emphasizes the significance of cooperating with other students. Usually, he held a discussion session by dividing us into groups to answer some questions that require brainstorming after introducing the subject for each essay. His objective is to make us more engaged with one another. As a result, it encouraged me to become more active while sharing lots of ideas at the same time with other members. Thus, it broadened my perspective on how to produce compelling essays. Likewise, other students could also learn valuable lessons from me as I also contribute ideas to them.

After reading the article on Dialogic Reading from the Reading Rockets Website I learned a lot about why this type of reading strategy is important and should be used in preschools worldwide because of its benefits. What I personally think of this technique is that it is very beneficial for any new student learning to read especially at a preschool level where the student themselves are reading a book instead of being read to by their teacher. What it says right from the article on Dialogic Reading that I highly agree with that explains why this is so beneficial is, “Likewise, no one can learn to read just by listening to someone else read. Children learn most from books when they are actively involved”( readingrockets.org). This right here

I think Peer education on college campuses is beneficial because it is very important for college students to learn about health information that they are not aware of. Nowadays not everyone is aware of increasing health problems and physical safety. The peer education on college campus can teach us so many things that we didn’t learn in school or from our parents. Peer education is a great way to learn about sexual behavior, drugs, abuse, alcohol, personal safety and overall mental and physical health. I believe peer education is a great way of motivation to college students because we can gain knowledge about making healthy choices, we can develop our values, beliefs and can embrace new skills and can be responsible for our own health. I

The peer group shares with the school the important function of allowing the child to be away from the family where the child learns different models of behavior as well as well as new relationships and values they might not have learned in their family life. Peer groups also allow the opportunity to discuss interests that adults may not share (clothes, music). The peer group also teaches children how to deal with conflicts.

It has long been a source of debate among classicists whether the ancients read silently or aloud. Analysis of this question is necessarily fragmented, since the only information available to modern scholars comes from the few extant ancient sources discussing how texts were read. In the surviving sources, there are many more explicit references to reading aloud than to reading silently, which suggests that reading aloud was more common. Nevertheless, there is evidence in ancient literature that reading silently was both possible and “unremarkable” (McCutcheon 2). Reading silently and reading aloud are not practices at odds with each other; while reading aloud was almost certainly more conventional, reading silently was not necessarily abnormal. In fact, the available evidence shows that readers in Greek and Roman antiquity read both aloud and silently.

Reading is like a desk with a hidden compartment. There are nuggets in the unsecured drawers, but the truly valuable items will be hidden, unbeknownst to all but the most careful of searchers. The same holds true for a book. One is able to glean information like plot events and facts, but nothing of substance. The true substance must be sought through careful reflection and introspection.

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